New mandate, new agenda: Will the EU live up to its promises on R&I?

Begin
06 Feb 2025 09:00
End
06 Feb 2025 17:30
Venue
Brussels, Belgium
Organiser
Science|Business

Following her re-election as European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen has pledged to put “research and innovation, science and technology, at the centre of our economy” during her next five-year mandate. The rationale for doing so has multiple drivers: a growing innovation gap between Europe, the US and China; increasingly ambitious decarbonisation goals; defence and security threats from war in Ukraine and the Middle East, spurring geopolitical interest in further EU enlargement; and the need for productivity gains to support sustainable growth and competitiveness, among others.