10 Jul 2024
Austrian Council for Sciences, Technology, and Innovation makes recommendations for FP10
The Austrian Council for Sciences, Technology, and Innovation (FORWIT) has published recommendations for the design of the tenth European Research Framework Programme (FP 10). FORWIT advises the Austrian federal government on the policy areas of research, science, innovation and technology development in order to sustainably strengthen Austria's innovative power and increase the country's competitiveness.
FORWIT supports the call for a budget of €200 billion for FP10 to ensure Europe’s competitiveness against the United States and China in the future. The budget must be secured for the entire duration exclusively for the defined objectives of FP 10 and may not be used for other priorities, the Council says. To respond appropriately to crisis situations, FORWIT proposes to establish a dedicated contingency fund outside of FP10.
From FORWIT's point of view, strengthening the permeability between basic and applied research as well as between the individual sectors and nation states is essential for the success of FP 10. This would create synergies to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of European research.
The Advisory Council recommends that in FP10, suitable instruments should be established to better connect the programme’s different components (“pillars”) and to avoid their isolation. The aim is set to facilitate symbiosis between the framework programme’s components and individual research programmes.
The recommendations can be downloaded here: