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Gesine MEISSNER, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Pavel TELIČKA, Jozo RADOŠ

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12

(12) It is important to support industry to stay or become world leader in innovation, digitisation and decarbonisation, notably through investments in key enabling technologies that will underpin tomorrow's business. The Programme's actions should support achieving EU policy objectives through its focus on excellent science, industrial leadership and societal challenges and be used to address market failures or sub- optimal investment situations, in a proportionate manner, without duplicating or crowding out private financing and have a clear European added value. This will ensure consistency between the actions of the programme and EU State aid rules, avoiding undue distortions of competition in the internal market.

2018/09/12
Committee: TRAN

Gesine MEISSNER, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Pavel TELIČKA, Jozo RADOŠ

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14

(14) The Commission's Communication on the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 (COM(2018) 2 final) has provided a set of recommendations for this Programme, including its Rules for participation and dissemination, building on the lessons learnt from the previous Programme as well as input from EU institutions and stakeholders. Those recommendations include to invest more ambitiously in order to reach critical mass and maximise impact; to support breakthrough innovation; to prioritise Union research and innovation (R&I) investments in areas of high added value, notably through mission- orientation, citizen involvement and wide communication; to rationalise the Union funding landscape, including by streamlining the range of partnership initiatives and co-funding schemes; the development of more and concrete synergies between different Union funding instruments, notably with the aim of helping to mobilise under-exploited R&I potential across the Union; to strengthen international cooperation and reinforce openness to third countries' participation; and to ~~continue~~pursue further simplification ~~based on implementation experiences from Horizon 2020~~to support faster innovation cycles and lower administrative burden based on implementation experiences from Horizon 2020. Further simplification is also needed in order to reduce burden for beneficiaries, to align rules with their usual practices recognised by national funders and by optimising the Commission’s management processes.

2018/09/12
Committee: TRAN

Gesine MEISSNER, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Pavel TELIČKA, Jozo RADOŠ

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15

(15) The Programme should seek further strenghtening and making more efficient and effective synergies with other Union programmes, from their design and strategic planning, to project selection, management, communication, dissemination and exploitation of results, to monitoring, auditing and governance, bringing priorities more inline with each other. With a view to avoiding overlaps and duplication and increasing the leverage of Union funding, transfers from other Union programmes to Horizon Europe activities can take place. In such cases they will follow Horizon Europe rules.

2018/09/12
Committee: TRAN

Gesine MEISSNER, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Pavel TELIČKA, Jozo RADOŠ

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16

(16) In order to achieve the greatest possible impact of Union funding and the most effective contribution to the Union's policy objectives, the Programme should enter into European Partnerships with private and/or public sector partners. Such partners include industry, research organisations, bodies with a public service mission at local, regional, national or international level, and civil society organisations such as foundations that support and/or carry out research and innovation, provided that desired impacts can be achieved more effectively in partnership than by the Union alone. Reforming the current partnership instruments and initiatives should make it possible to use their full potential in achieving ambitious policy objectives.

2018/09/12
Committee: TRAN

Gesine MEISSNER, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Pavel TELIČKA, Jozo RADOŠ

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23

(23) The EIT, primarily through its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), should aim at strengthening innovation ecosystems that tackle global challenges, by fostering the integration of business, research, higher education and entrepreneurship. The EIT should foster innovation in its activities and should support the integration of higher education within the innovation ecosystem, in particular by: stimulating entrepreneurial education, fostering strong non- disciplinary collaborations between industry and academia; and identifying prospective skills for future innovators to address global challenges, which includes advanced digital and innovation skills. The stronger focus on innovation and market oriented skills of researchers are very important aspects of job creation and business expansion in Europe. Support schemes provided by the EIT should benefit to EIC beneficiaries, while start-ups emerging from EIT KICs should have access to EIC actions. While the EIT’s focus on innovation ecosystems should make it naturally fit within the pillar 'Open Innovation', the planning of its KICs should be aligned through the strategic planning process with the pillar 'Global Challenges and Industrial Competitiveness'.

2018/09/12
Committee: TRAN