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In my view, the Horizon Europe Missions will fail because their designers were carried along by rhetoric and never really took the right lessons from past experience. These include the need for backing from a charismatic political leader and a clever mix of industrial, economic, environmental and social goals that appeal across the political spectrum.
The Horizon Europe Missions won’t deliver results without widespread change in how policy is made in Europe, says Wolfgang Polt, coordinator of the Transnational Cooperation on the Missions Approach (TRAMI), a project that runs a knowledge exchange network for the five Missions.
There’s a new player in Horizon Europe - the universities of applied sciences (UAS), a broad term for second tier higher education institutes such as polytechnics, regional colleges and institutes of technology that were set up as teaching-only bodies but which over time have moved into research. Given their roots, UAS were historically left out of the EU’s research programmes but are slowly improving their standing as EU-funded research becomes more policy-heavy and market-oriented.
The Brussels research policy bubble isn’t too keen on the European Commission’s proposal to slightly increase the budget for Horizon Europe Missions and to set up a sixth Mission on the New European Bauhaus. The Commission published its first assessment of the Mission programmes this week, and while its own view is rather positive, stakeholders are more critical.