La Commissione europea ha pubblicato, martedì 15 maggio, la comunicazione A renewed agenda for Research and Innovation: Europe’s chance to shape the future (qui il testo completo). La comunicazione rappresenta il contributo dell’esecutivo europeo al dibattito informale dei capi di Stato e di governo, che si terrà a Sofia mercoledì 16 maggio, sulla ricerca e l’innovazione e sulle azioni da intraprendere per garantire la competitività dell’Europa a livello mondiale.
La nuova agenda europea per la ricerca e l’innovazione – riferisce la Commissione – presenta una serie di azioni concrete volte a rafforzare la capacità di innovazione dell’Europa e a garantire una prosperità duratura. La Commissione – sintetizzando e formalizzando orientamenti già emersi nei mesi scorsi – invita i leader dell’UE a discutere delle azioni suggerite e a definire un orientamento strategico per la loro attuazione: assicurando che la regolamentazione e il finanziamento siano favorevoli all’innovazione; ponendosi all’avanguardia nell’innovazione creatrice di mercato attraverso l’istituzione dello European Innovation Council; varando missioni di ricerca e innovazione a livello UE.
Azioni proposte dalla Commissione ai Leader UE
1. Horizon Europe – Swiftly adopting the next Multiannual Financial Framework with the proposed innovation funding [Horizon Europe, nda] to ensure that research and innovation continues to be one of the essential EU policies and funding priorities in the future, across different budgetary instruments.
2. 3% GDP in R&I – Member States taking the necessary steps to maximise their investments in research and innovation to reach the 3% of Gross Domestic Product target.
3. Private investments in R&I – Increasing private investment in research and innovation and scale-up initiatives such as the VentureEU initiative to boost private investment and patient capital.
4. Regulatory frameworks – Building future proof EU and national regulatory frameworks by applying the innovation principle, ensuring that whenever policy and legislation are reviewed, developed or implemented, the impact on innovation is fully assessed.
5. Directive on preventing restructuring framework – Giving priority to the transposition of the Directive on preventing restructuring frameworks, second chances and measures to increase the efficiency of restructuring, insolvency and discharge procedures.
6. State aid rules – Further simplifying state aid rules to facilitate the seamless combination of different funds and the better use of common assessment standards for research and innovation projects.
7. EIC – Establishing a European Innovation Council to identify and scale up breakthrough and disruptive innovation, focusing on fast moving, high-risk innovations that have a strong potential to create entirely new markets.
8. Missions – Launching a set of European research and innovation missions with bold, ambitious goals and strong European added value.
9. Synergies with ESIF – Using European Structural and Investment Funds to bring the regions into the innovation economy. Smart Specialisation Strategies should be strengthened and streamlined to enable interregional innovation support. Synergies should be created, with the Horizon Europe programme, InvestEU Fund, the European Social Fund, the Erasmus+ Programme, the Digital Europe Programme, the Common Agricultural Policy and other programmes.
10. Open Science – Contributing to the modernisation of Universities and public research organisations with an Open Science label.