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Horizon Europe: New Parliament, new Commission, new agenda.
Thank you for registering for the live webcast for Horizon Europe: The conference invites reflection on the legacy of and lessons learned from Horizon 2020, and gather high level recommendations for the new Parliament and incoming Commission on what Horizon Europe might realistically be expected to deliver through to 2030.
Taking stock, looking forward: The legacy of Horizon 2020
Regenerating Europe: Can circular economy be achieved by 2030?
Roadmaps to success for the next decade
Smart science: How can Al help universities and researchers in Europe?
From Brussels to the moon: What can R&I deliver for Europe by 2030?
https://sciencebusiness.net/events/horizon-europe-new-parliament-new-co…
The Commission proposed a budget of € 100 billion for Horizon Europe.
Our key message is, Horizon Europe is closing Europe’s horizon as much as it happened with EUR 80b Horizon 2020 and the EU Strategy 2020, unless a comprehensive intellectualization of EU’s governments at all levels, from local to trans-national, is to be performed.
What was Horizon 2020, and how did it waste €80 billion of public funding?
Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.
Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness.
Seen as a means to drive economic growth and create jobs, Horizon 2020 has the political backing of Europe’s leaders and the Members of the European Parliament. They agreed that research is an investment in our future and so put it at the heart of the EU’s blueprint for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and jobs.
By coupling research and innovation, Horizon 2020 is helping to achieve this with its emphasis on excellent science, industrial leadership and tackling societal challenges. The goal is to ensure Europe produces world-class science, removes barriers to innovation and makes it easier for the public and private sectors to work together in delivering innovation.
Horizon 2020 is open to everyone, with a simple structure that reduces red tape and time so participants can focus on what is really important. This approach makes sure new projects get off the ground quickly – and achieve results faster.
The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation will be complemented by further measures to complete and further develop the European Research Area. These measures will aim at breaking down barriers to create a genuine single market for knowledge, research and innovation.
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/what-horizon-2020
What is delivered or undelivered and why?
There is uncreated any European Research Area as “a genuine single market for knowledge, research and innovation”.
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- Excellent Science
- Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies
- Innovation in SMEs
- Access to Risk Finance
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Societal Challenges
- Societal Challenge 1, (Health, demographic change and wellbeing)
- Societal Challenge 2, (Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine, Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy)
- Societal Challenge 4, (Smart, Green and Integrated Transport)
- Societal Challenge 5, (Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials)
- Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation
Work Programme 2018 - 2020, a combined budget of over €7 billion
'Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future' (LC);
'Connecting economic and environmental gains – the Circular Economy' (CE);
'Digitising and transforming European industry and services' (DT);
'Boosting the effectiveness of the Security Union' (SU).
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/cross-cutt…
Horizon Europe: New False Promises
THE NEXT EU RESEARCH & INNOVATION INVESTMENT PROGRAMME (2021 – 2027)
Our vision
It is a sustainable, fair and prosperous future for people and planet based on European values
Tackling climate change (35 % budgetary target)
§ Boosting the Union's competitiveness and growth
§ Helping to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals:
“…a better and more sustainable future for all… addressing the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice.
The Goals interconnect and in order to leave no one behind, it ís important that we achieve each Goal and target by 2030”.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/research_and_innovation/stra…
Let’s be honest with each other!
The EU 2020 Strategy with is a missed opportunity to improve our communities, cities, countries, the whole union,
Horizon 2020 failed to strengthen collaboration and active partnerships between industry, academia and the supply chain becoming a key obstacle to maintain scientific, technological industrial leadership in the highly competitive world.
Dividing research and innovation, Horizon 2020 flopped to create a single ERA, failing to give a boost to bringing Europe's research to the innovation market
The EU 2020 Strategy, aiming at "smart, sustainable, inclusive growth" with greater coordination of national and European policy, is missed in its key directions and strategic goals and priorities:
– Smart growth: developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation.
– Sustainable growth: promoting a more resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy.
– Inclusive growth: fostering a high-employment economy delivering social and territorial cohesion.
The EU is far away from its headline targets:
– 75 % of the population aged 20-64 should be employed.
– 3% of the EU's GDP should be invested in R&D.
– The "20/20/20" climate/energy targets should be met (including an increase to 30% of emissions reduction if the conditions are right).
– The share of early school leavers should be under 10% and at least 40% of the younger generation should have a tertiary degree.
– 20 million less people should be at risk of poverty.
https://ec.europa.eu/eu2020/pdf/COMPLET%20EN%20BARROSO%20%20%20007%20-%…
What is the real state of affairs in Europe?
Just 3 facts
There might be many shocking Eurostat figures about poverty, education and unemployment.
Let me bring in just one tragic fact re Europe’s real wealth and how “20 million less people should be at risk of poverty”.
The 14-year-old boy, Stylianos, was found dead by his father on Thursday evening at a farm in a village in the Nicosia district.
Following reports of abject poverty, social benefit of euro 256 for 3 kids, social welfare services had mishandled the case properly failing to prevent the boy’s death.
The investigation across 5 state agencies, social welfare, mental health services, the ombudswoman’s office, the education ministry and police will uncover whether any of them should be held responsible for the suicide.
Note how many good-for-nothing state agencies are to do the deadly late probe covering the period from 2007, when problems with the family were first reported, until 2019.
https://cyprus-mail.com/2019/09/11/cabinet-orders-probe-across-four-sta…
Europe is the most suicidal region of the world according to crude rates, where most public schools stay without social workers and psychologists. https://www.euronews.com/2017/05/18/suicide-rate-is-highest-in-europe-u…
Median Poverty of Europe
How to measure European wealth and poverty looks more as a political issue than a standard economic problem. In fact, these figures are influenced by real estate prices, equity market prices, exchange rates, liabilities, debts, adult percentage of the population, human resources, natural resources and capital and technological advancements, which may create new assets or render others worthless in the future.
During periods of equity market growth, the relative national and per capita wealth of countries where people are more exposed to those markets, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, tends to rise. But when equity markets are depressed, the relative wealth of countries where people invest more in real estate or bonds, such as France and Italy, tends to rise instead. Countries with older populations, like Germany and Italy, would have higher relative wealth, if calculated per capita and not per adult.
There is a difference between median and mean wealth. Median wealth is the amount that divides the wealth distribution into two equal groups: half the adults have wealth above the median, and the other half below. Mean wealth is the amount obtained by dividing the total aggregate wealth by the number of adults. In nations where wealth is highly concentrated in a small percentage of people, the mean can be much higher than the median (e.g. the United States and Sweden).
As to the Global Wealth Report 2018, global mean wealth makes a record high of $63,100 per adult, with the aggregate global wealth rose by $14.0 trillion (4.6%) to a combined total of $317 trillion, outpacing population growth.
https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/reports-research/global-wealt…
This is a list of countries of the world by wealth per adult, published annually in Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Databook. It includes both financial and non-financial assets. In the tables below mean and median wealth per adult are reported.
Anthony Shorrocks; Jim Davies; Rodrigo Lluberas (October 2018). "Global Wealth Report". Credit Suisse. 10 Oct 2018 article: Global Wealth Report 2018: US and China in the lead. Report. Databook. Downloadable data sheets. See Table 3.1 (page 114) of databook for mean and median wealth by country.
https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/reports-research/global-wealt…
Median and mean wealth per adult, in US dollars, with number of adults, in thousands; the inequality ration of median-to-mean.
Europe
18,153
144,903
589,373
United States
61,667
403,974
15.27
242,972
Around 31.2 million women and 9.5 million men aged 20 to 64 worked part-time in the European Union in 2018. This represented 19 per cent of total employment.
Across the EU member states, the share of people who worked part-time in 2018 varied significantly. The highest proportion was reported in Greece (70 per cent), followed by Italy (66 per cent), Cyprus (65 per cent) and Bulgaria (59 per cent). The lowest shares were recorded in Estonia (6 per cent), followed by Belgium, Czechia and Slovenia (7 per cent each).
Sources:
https://futurium.ec.europa.eu/european-ai-alliance/forum/no-ai-no-futur…
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