On Wednesday 23 November, the Member States’ deputy ambassadors to the EU discussed four non-legislative texts that are now on the agenda for the Research Ministers’ meeting on 2 December.
The conclusions on research infrastructures (see EUROPE 13008/8) were thus added to the agenda of this meeting for approval, as well as the conclusions on the ‘New European Innovation Agenda’ (see EUROPE 13043/16).
The draft EU Council recommendation on guidelines for knowledge valorisation is also on the agenda for adoption.
The European Commission submitted on 9 August a proposal for a recommendation to update its 2008 recommendation (2008/416/EC) on the management of intellectual property in knowledge transfer activities.
The need to develop such a list of guiding principles was included in the November 2021 EU Council conclusions on the future governance of the European Research Area (ERA).
The 24 non-binding guidelines aim to promote the widest possible societal use and valorisation of intellectual assets generated by research and innovation (R&I) activities. These guidelines cover a wider range of actors and areas than the 2008 Commission Recommendation (2008/416/EC) to better reflect the new realities of R&I.
These guiding principles include the encouragement of multidisciplinary cooperation, mobility, support and valorisation of skills and capacities needed to implement valorisation, incentive systems for all actors in the R&I ecosystem, principles for the management of intellectual assets, relevance in public funding schemes to ensure valorisation, peer learning, and finally, indicators, monitoring and evaluation of valorisation.
Finally, the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU sent a note to the delegations to inform the political debate of the Ministers. The Presidency invites Ministers to discuss and consider building capacity to make better use of scientific knowledge in their public policy making.
The paper recalls that the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the need to improve capacity for science for policy. The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the need for more research and innovation and more coordination of efforts in this area.
The Czech Presidency proposes three avenues for discussion: identifying national measures that could improve confidence in the use of science for public policy, finding ways to better connect R&I and policy-making in other public policy areas, and identifying ways for the Commission to support the development of the field of science for public policy.
More information: https://aeur.eu/f/4a1 ; https://aeur.eu/f/49k ; https://aeur.eu/f/49i ; https://aeur.eu/f/49j (Original version in French by Émilie Vanderhulst)