Horizon Europe, the largest and most ambitious research and innovation (R&I) programme in Europe, was recently launched in Malta at an online event organised by the Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) in conjunction with the European Commission. Succeeding Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe will have a budget of €95.5 billion.
Signe Ratso, deputy director for R&I at the European Commission, provided an overview of the Horizon Europe programme, outlining the three main pillars: Excellent Science, Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, and Innovative Europe. She said the programme aims to promote excellence, provide valuable support to top researchers, and help innovators drive the systematic changes needed to ensure a green, healthy, and resilient Europe.
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Today, as the OECD celebrates the 20 year anniversary of the creation of the National Contact Points (NCPs) for the OECD Guidelines, OECD Watch launches âNCP Evaluationsâ, a project to assess all 49 NCPs on 40 performance criteria. The purpose of the NCP Evaluations project is to provide the public with objective information about the functioning of NCPs, identify gaps in NCP performance, and improve the effectiveness of individual NCPs and the NCP system as a whole. Analysis across NCPs and indicators identifies significant differences between NCPs. While a few individual NCPs meet many (but not all) of the expectations civil society has for them, the NCP system as a whole is underachieving on indicators that matter most to civil society.