JOINResearch & Innovation Days in Brussels
Discussions at the R&I Days centred around the next EU funding programme for research (the successor of Horizon Europe), the new European Competitiveness Fund and the many unresolved questions about how their governance will work. A balance between funding for strategic investments, selected top-down, and blue-sky research (mainly funded through the ERC) will need to be found for the budget 2028-34. A novelty in the new programme will be that dual-use research will be allowed, but the details of how it will be regulated still need to be ironed out.