Programme - Day 2

Stream the STE(A)M - gender equality 4 studies and careers

How can STE(A)M education foster gender equality in Research and Innovation careers? What is the EU’s role and what can Member States and R&I organisations do to drive change towards gender equality in STEM studies and careers?

Join the session to be part of the discussions with a range of stakeholders from education institutions, research organisations and businesses. Together we will contribute to the creation of a Manifesto for gender-inclusive STE(A)M education, in line with the objectives of the European Strategy for Universities.

New European Bauhaus: Collaboration, Community and Culture for Innovation

With its human-centred, participatory and transdisciplinary approach, the New European Bauhaus is mobilising a wide range of actors such as local authorities, researchers, practitioners and civil society.

This session will discuss innovation beyond technology and market-driven approaches by exploring new collaboration models, the role of communities and arts and culture as powerful drivers for a sustainable, beautiful and inclusive transformation.

A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage

European museums and other cultural heritage institutions are facing many challenges, in particular about deepening their knowledge on their cultural goods and artefacts, co-creating with other cultural institutions and stakeholders or performing R&I on their cultural treasures.

By bringing together experts, the workshop will address these challenges and explore the digitisation needs of museums and other cultural heritage institutions and explain how the Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (Cloud) will provide solutions.

Two experts will be invited to present the results of the report on the Cloud, while museums stakeholders from large, medium, and small museums will explain the importance of the cloud for the museums and their needs, which can’t be fulfilled in the absence of a European Collaborative Cloud.

The power of the Arts for people’s well-being

“The power of Arts for people’s well-being” will explore how closely well-being is inter-linked with arts, to highlight the power of arts in connecting people and ways through which arts are contributing to increase well-being and creativity.

The invited speakers will address the elements that are instrumental to individual and populations’ well-being and showcase best practices that can be up-scaled and reproduced in different areas to potentiate the positive effects on well-being.

Accelerating access to excellence

The widening instruments were conceived originally to respond to the participation gap in the EU framework programmes. At a broader perspective lagging participation success is a symptom of the innovation divide across Europe going beyond a traditional perception of research performance. The plenary will touch upon the most outstanding challenges of this rather broad area.

Education and Innovation for Skills Development: Empowering the next generation

Building on the Education and Summation that took place on 23 June 2022, the session will explore how to develop and support culture of innovation and entrepreneurial mind-set across all levels of education. Inspired by the European strategy for Universities and the European Innovation Agenda, it will discuss the role of education and training in stimulating creativity, entrepreneurship and students’ interest in research and innovation.

It will also tackle the topic of the innovation and entrepreneurial capacity of higher education institutions, which are necessary for the development of innovative curricula that respond to the needs of the labour market.

From lab to market – connecting research, technology and innovation

The New European Innovation Agenda has a primary focus on deep-tech innovation. But how can scientific breakthroughs really make it from the lab to market? And what kind of ecosystem do we need to provide to ensure that researchers, entrepreneurs and investors have the right environment to turn Europe into an innovation hotspot?

This session will look at the complementary support provided by the European Research Council, the European Innovation Council and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for Europe to lead the wave of deep-tech innovation.

Startup village: leaving no one behind

What is a startup village and how is this concept being translated into concrete action? What are the triggering factors that make innovation ecosystems develop in EU rural areas? This session will go through the outcome of the 2022 Startup Village Forum and discuss the next steps to make startup villages one of the key component of the R&I flagship of the Long-Term Vision for the EU's Rural Areas.

Enhancing trust in science – a conversation with researchers

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on our socio-economic systems. Research and innovation will remain crucial to ensure a sustainable and inclusive recovery from the crisis. What is the role of scientists in a post-pandemic world? How can we ensure that the public trusts science? This conversation with ERC grantees and MSCA researchers will focus on the importance of science communication and public engagement, particularly among young citizens.

Youth at the heart of the Green transition

Youth participation has been revolutionising the way we look at climate and the environment. This session will highlight the role of youth in general and volunteers in particular in making the green transition a reality. We will explore how to support them in this journey, through the Union’s youth programmes, European Solidarity Corps and Erasmus+ including DiscoverEU, through Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe, through the European Climate Coalition. Together, we are working to accelerate the green transition.

Youth for a Healthy Ocean

This session as a contribution to the European Year of Youth and will focus on one of its R&I flagships: the All-Atlantic Youth Ambassadors Programme. The session would invite youth ambassadors inspired by this programme from the other European sea basins as well, such as the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. This would be the first time that they come together from geopolitically very different areas and would share their common experience on their dedicated activities and how their youth engagement contributes to promoting a healthy and sustainable ocean among generations, while developing their career prospects as early career scientists. The session would also build links to the Mission ‘Restore Our Ocean and Waters by 2030’ and the Lighthouses that are developed as part of its implementation.

EU Mission on Cancer: Focus on needs of young cancer survivors

The EU Mission on Cancer identified childhood cancer as one of its main transversal priorities.

As part of the European Year of Youth, this session will focus on the needs of young people with a childhood cancer history.

It will discuss opportunities under the EU Mission on Cancer to strengthen R&I investments in paediatric cancer and to shape policy actions to improve the quality life of young people.

Young Innovators

These are unprecedented times for Europe, our sovergenity, climate, energy and food supply. As the understanding of the research and science develops and grows, so does our understanding that they only way to tackle some of the biggest challenges of today, we need young, creative, and thinking out of the box innovators, who can move things forward and become powerhouse of innovation. We need to work on this together on a scale like never before and we need to start from the early age, to create entrepreneurial mindset ready to thrive and reimagine the world globally. The session will present successful young innovators across the continent, whose ideas changed and are changing the world around us.

Onwards and upwards: best practices from Mission Cities

This session will seek to take concrete steps towards the drafting and signing of Climate city Contracts (CCCs) and showcase the support of national and regional networks to the Cities Mission.

Mission Adaptation to Climate Change: success factors

The session will explore how regions act on adaptation and how they liaise with the national authorities to coordinate adaptation measures. Participating regions will present the main challenges faced and how they overcome them.

A Soil Deal for Europe, national and local initiatives for healthy soils

The Mission 'A Soil Deal for Europe' will support the transition towards healthy soils by 2030 by putting in place an effective network of 100 living labs and lighthouses in rural and urban areas.

The Mission is also funding an ambitious research and innovation programme, developing a harmonised framework for soil monitoring in Europe and increasing people’s awareness on the vital importance of soils.

Across Europe, many activities are taking place at local level, mirroring the spirit of the Mission in protecting and restoring soils.

By bringing together supra-national, national institutions and organisations, business representatives, and individual actions, the session will feature existing initiatives that can be considered as best practice.

Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters: a Lighthouse for the Danube river

We would propose to make this session working together with Members States, regional networks and key stakeholders for the systemic restoration of the Danube, under the Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters” lighthouse focussed on the Danube and Black Sea region.

Purpose: Practical, hands-on session – learning from the excellence of EU research and innovation and European research infrastructures, as well as best practices at national and regional level that ensure the restoration and sustainable functioning of the river-sea-continuum. Discussions will focus on the connecting, deploying and upscaling activities to restore the Danube river system in line with the Mission objectives.

EU Mission on Cancer: Developing a science to policy ecosystem for cancer control

The integration of EU missions with activities at national, regional and local levels will be key to ensuring a successful implementation of the mission.

This roundtable session will highlight good practices in policy development, including governance aspects, and resource mobilisation to tackle cancer. It will also discuss the challenges in developing a science to policy ecosystem.

Beyond the Mission Cities: Opportunities for Synergies

This session will showcase how Missions reinforce each other in achieving EGD targets, how a targets and needs-based approach helps identify new ways of collaboration, how synergies between funding programmes are possible.

Mission Adaptation to Climate Change: opportunities for synergies

The session will present synergies of the Mission Adaptation to Climate Change with the Mission Cities and with the Mission Oceans. It will showcase a city and a coastal region that have applied to the Mission Charter.

Our Mission: healthy soils

This session proposes to show potential synergies of the soil mission with other programmes and Horizon Europe instruments, in particular the CAP and the Horizon Europe Partnerships. The new Common Agricultural Policy recognises soil management as an important element to improve farm sustainability in economic and environmental terms (CAP Specific objective 5: “Foster sustainable development and efficient management of natural resources such as water, soil and air”). In addition, the European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural Production and Sustainability (EIP-AGRI), with its community of stakeholders can foster good soil management practices on the ground.

The Horizon Europe Partnerships, on Agroecology and Food Systems can support the objective of the Mission by leveraging on scientific expertise on sustainable agriculture and food production.

The sessions will identify synergies and common pathways.

Mission Ocean & Waters: synergies and next steps

This session will highlight potential synergies to deliver with impact on this EU Missions, through Horizon Europe and other programmes: CEF, EMFF, H2020, Interreg, LIFE. Discussion will be based on the synergies among R&I portfolios funded under different EU programmes and how they can be linked up to the three objectives of the Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters” to take stock of what has been already put in place and what more can be done to fill potential gaps. Speakers will be representative from different EU programme highly relevant to this EU Missions and from external participant running a programme/initiative involved with the Mission’s objectives.

Integrating research for new cancer screening programmes

In this session, we will debate on future cancer screening programs that will improve early detection of cancer.

In the context of the EU Mission on Cancer and Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, the Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) recently produced key recommendations on cancer screening. This scientific opinion, supported by strong and independent scientific evidence, informs the revision of the Council recommendations on cancer screening.

At the light of these renewed cancer screening guidelines, what will be the scientific developments to consider and new research to be started? This will be the focus of the debate.