In the field of research and innovation, Sweden, which will hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2023, intends to facilitate the accessibility and valorisation of data and knowledge within the European Research Area through open science, in particular by making stages of the research process and tools available free of charge online.
The upcoming Swedish Presidency has identified several challenges in the transition to open science, both at national and international level: the issue of skills and costs, as well as the security and protection of research data and the intellectual property rights of the actors on the products of research. Questions remain about how to promote stakeholders’ knowledge and their strategic use of intellectual property rights, it also points out.
This work on open science will include putting forward as well measures to improve access to research infrastructures, their data and services. The incoming Presidency is taking up the mantle of the Czech Republic, which at the meeting of EU research ministers in early December worked for the adoption of EU Council conclusions on research infrastructures (see EUROPE 13076/5).
Semiconductors. The upcoming Swedish Presidency emphasises that one of the five strategic objectives in the draft European Chips Act is strengthening Europe’s research and technological leadership through a European partnership focusing on semiconductors and related technologies.
The revision of the Regulation (2021/2085) establishing the Joint Undertakings under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for the establishment of a dedicated Chips Joint Undertaking will therefore continue in the first half of 2023.
For more information: https://aeur.eu/f/4p5 (Original version in French by Emilie Vanderhulst)