Norway provides its preliminary input on FP10

Norway has provided its preliminary input on the next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP10). According to this document, FP10 should contribute to tackling global and European societal challenges and help build a Europe that is excellent in cutting edge research and technology, competitive, and resilient. It also calls for increased preparedness for a more challenging geopolitical context and unforeseen crises and challenges.

Norway believes FP10 should be based on the following key principles:

1. Excellence as the main principle for R&I funding
2. Impact, meaning a continued focus on impact encompassing cutting-edge research, technological breakthroughs, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and enhancements in productivity and competitiveness
3. Fundamental values as described in the ERA Pact for R&I, i.e., ethics, integrity, open science, gender equality and inclusiveness, and scientific freedom
4. European Added Value (EAV), i.e., the creation of value beyond what is achievable at national level as the main objective of FP10
5. Transparency as a prerequisite for a well-functioning coordination process between the Commission, Member States, EEA EFTA States, and other Associated Countries

The main messages focus on:

1. Concentrate resources on the most important research and innovation areas based on EAV
2. Continue the focus on transformative R&I policy
3. A digital and technological boost
4. Pay more attention to long-term challenges and opportunities
5. Strengthen synergies and complementarities
6. Strategic autonomy is needed, but openness to international cooperation in R&I should be the main principle
7. Reconsider the balance between partnerships and collaborative projects
8. Streamlining instruments in support of innovation
9. Ensure strategic alignment between the European Research Area and the Framework Programme
10. Simplify instruments and reduce the administrative burden

More detailed descriptions of all main messages, including specific measures to achieve the set goals, can be found in the full preliminary input document, which is available here:

Norwegian preliminary input on the next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP10)