Accelerating R&I Investments for Europe's Industrial Transformation and competitive sustainability

02INTRODUCTION

ERA Action 16 in the ERA Policy Agenda (2025-2027)

Accelerating R&I investments requires a systematic approach to informing and shaping the R&I agenda by industrial needs and a comprehensive, operational framework for effective transfer of R&I results into industrial applications:

  • Integrating current tools at European, national and regional levels, showcasing good practices in their application, facilitating exchange of experience and providing opportunities for Member States and regions to share good practices, and to bring new knowledge;
  • implementing the demand-driven European approach to technology infrastructures, including pilot actions and possible funding schemes, as part of the current work on Research and Technology Infrastructures;
  • developing, testing and implementing the policy toolbox approach for accelerating decarbonisation of energy-intensive industries and advancing circular economy, ensuring the contribution from the SET plan community.

Expected outcomes

  • Mapping of the policy tools supporting industrial R&I;
  • contribution to the European policy on Research and Technology Infrastructures including actions leading to demand-driven use of such infrastructures by industry, in particular SMEs, start-ups and scale-ups;
  • building and exchanging knowledge and expertise in national industrial technology roadmapping to decarbonise energy-intensive industries;
  • contributing to a European monitoring platform for technologies and industrial demonstrators (European Innovation Centre for Industrial Transformation and Emissions - INCITE).

Objectives

  • Achieve a greater understanding of industrial needs for R&I results and investments, enabling policy makers and funding agencies to design and implement targeted tools to mobilise R&I investments;
  • increase synergies in funding of R&I, notably by industry, for technology transfer, demonstrators, scale-up, validation and technology infrastructures;
  • facilitate the path to deployment and use of advanced technologies in industry, with a focus on sustainability and societal benefit.