The League of European Research Universities (LERU) urges the European Commission to “ensure that precompetitive collaborative research and innovation (R&I) funding remains a central part of the next R&I Framework Programme (FP10)”, in a note published on Wednesday 2 April.
It highlights the essential role that this type of funding plays in encouraging cross-sectoral, cross-border and interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle Europe’s most pressing industrial and societal challenges. In the EU, there is no national or regional equivalent that funds this type of collaboration.
LERU believes that this funding is essential to maintain links between academia and industry or other players, across borders. “It is the only part of FP10 that would fund the middle section of the R&I process where research insights mature and are valorised before commercialisation, scaling or deployment is possible. Hence, it has a clear added value”, argues LERU.
To read the note, go to https://aeur.eu/f/g93 (Original version in French by Anne Damiani)