Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, said: "I have set three goals for the EU research and innovation policy - Open Innovation, Open Science, and Open to the World - and Mission Innovation combines all three. Open innovation by bringing a variety of actors together, open science by promoting synergies and the sharing of research results, and openness to the world by being a prime example of a truly global collaboration. I am confident that Mission Innovation is well geared to accelerate the clean energy revolution."

Mission Innovation was launched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Paris. So far, 20 of the world's major economies, representing 58% of the world population and over 80% of global clean energy research budgets, have pledged to double their government investment in clean energy research and innovation over the next five years. The European Commission has now joined this initiative on behalf of the EU, which is expected to allocate €10 billion of funding to clean energy under the EU research and innovation programme Horizon 2020 for the period 2014-2020.

A press release is available online.