Global initiatives can’t be allowed slip through the net

Europe must co-operate internationally if it is going to tackle society’s greatest challenges, according to the Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.

HORIZON 2020, the EU’s new instrument supporting research, innovation, and science worth nearly €80bn over the next seven years, is one of the most open, publicly funded programmes of its kind worldwide. Representatives from the research, education, private, and public sectors from 185 different countries have already participated in the previous EU R&D framework programme, called FP7.

From Accra to Adelaide, from Buenos Aires to Beijing, European researchers and industries have collaborated and continue to do so with partners around the world on a range of different topics so as to support the needs of our society.