{"id":4973,"date":"2020-01-15T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polsca.pan.pl\/en\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2020-01-16T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T11:28:49","slug":"new-eu-commission-horizon-europe-missions-the-work-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polsca.pan.pl\/en\/new-eu-commission-horizon-europe-missions-the-work-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"New EU Commission, Horizon Europe, Missions \u2013 the work continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The most important event of last autumn was the appointment of the new European Commission, under which Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong> was elected its President. At the beginning of September 2019 she proposed her team and the new structure of the Commission for the next term of office 2019 – 2024 (link<\/a>). Mariya Gabriel<\/strong> was proposed as a Commissioner, whose portfolio encompasses both science and education. Many scientists and a number of organizations – including the PAS<\/a> – suggested a change of portfolio name (link<\/a>), which was finally materialized, i.e. Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth (link<\/a>). After the hearing process, the European Parliament approved new set of commissioners in plenary on November 27, 2019 (link<\/a>). Already in December Commission unveils ‘A European Green Deal<\/strong>‘ to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent (link<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Strategic planning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) continued the preparation of the Horizon Europe<\/strong> framework program, including thorough discussions with all Member States under the format of the Shadow Strategic Configuration of the Horizon Europe Programme Committee<\/em> (Shadow SPC<\/em>). The basis for various consultations – extended by an additional month, i.e. until October 4th, 2019 – was a document entitled Orientations towards the first Strategic Plan<\/strong> (also published on PolSCA<\/a> webpage). The Commission\u2019s report on this process (including major findings of the EU Research & Innovation Days<\/strong> event held in September) was published on October 3, 2019 and thus consultations of umbrella organizations were started (link<\/a>). The final version of this document, which forms the departure point for further work, was published at the end of December 2019 (link<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this basis, the PolSCA Office<\/strong> will commit to engage the network of PAS institutions in the process of co-design of the Horizon Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In autumn 2019, consultations were also held on the HEU Implementation Strategy<\/strong>, the report of which can be found here<\/a>. Part of these consultations were regional workshops with the participation of EC representatives. In Poland such a meeting was held on November 20th<\/sup> in Warsaw, and it was co-organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Contact Point and the Polish Academy of Sciences, i.e. Grant-up Office<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Missions under HEU<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In the second half of 2019, intensive work began on identifying specific missions<\/a> within the 5 pre-defined areas. To this end, the EC appointed a number of experts to form Mission Boards<\/strong>, among them 4 people from Poland: <\/p>\n\n\n\n