On 28 Sept 2022, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Mariya Gabriel officially launched the 2025-2027 strategic planning process for Horizon Europe during the conclusion of Day 1 of the European Research and Innovation Days

Horizon Europe’s Strategic Planning is a tool which will guide the work programmes and topics for the programme in the coming years. Like its predecessor, the Strategic Plan 2025-2027 will be co-designed with citizens and stakeholders.

Commissioner Gabriel said: “Today marks an important milestone in the Horizon Europe strategic planning process. The Horizon Europe Strategic Plan 2025-2027 will put the ambitious goals of Horizon Europe into practice and make sure that the research and innovation funded by the EU target issues that matter most to all Europeans.”

On 15 and 16 November 2022 the European Commission will launch its first European Partnership Stakeholder Forum. The Forum focuses on the review of the first year of partnerships and, in particular, how they can contribute to the twin green and digital transitions, as well as increasing Europe’s resilience. The event is designed to bring together the whole community of co-funded, co-programmed and institutionalised partnerships. It will provide a venue for networking, broadening engagement, sharing of experiences and discussing policy and practical dimensions related to Partnerships.

ERA-LEARN and the European Commission are co-organising this Forum as a physical event with the possibility to follow it in streaming in silent mode.

Registration for the event is now possible. Given the limited capacity of the venue, please register as soon as possible. We can only confirm a limited number of registrations.

ERA-LEARN is organising the first in a series of webinars to familiarise partnerships and member state officials with the new monitoring and evaluation requirements building on the guidelines (2nd Interim Report) of the Expert Group on support to the Strategic Coordination Process that prepared the BMR 2022. The online-workshop is intended for those involved or interested in monitoring and evaluation/impact assessment of R&I partnerships. These may be officers in the partnerships themselves or public officials in funding and other organisations supporting the partnerships’ programmes.

The workshop will host

• presentation and explanations / advice by the EC based on the experience of the BMR 2022 and next steps in view of BMR 2024
• presentations and explanations / advice by members of the Expert Group
• presentations of experiences of new partnerships that are advanced in their M&E frameworks/activities (based on Partnerships Fiches in the BMR 2022)
• discussions and sharing of experiences based on the preparation of the BMR 2022

Clarification: the topic of data transfer that was covered in the ERA-LEARN webinar held in June 2022 will not be addressed.

ERA-LEARN provides a call calendar which shows information on past, ongoing and future calls of European Partnerships in a compact format and offers links to the websites of the respective calls and institutions.