The European Court of Auditors (ECA) examined, in its report published on Monday 21 November, the synergies between different programmes funding European research and innovation (R&I). The ECA studied the measures adopted by the competent European, national and regional authorities to promote synergies between different European programmes: the Horizon 2020 programme (2014-2020) followed by Horizon Europe (2021-2027) and the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs for 2014-2020).