Meeting between EU-LIFE and EU Commissioner of Research,
Education, Culture, Innovation and Youth, Maryia Gabriel
Date: 5th December 2019, 10h30, Brussels
Summary Follow up actions
Presentation of EU-LIFE: mission, priorities of action and impact to the society and
the economy. Focus on advocating for research & Innovation and promoting
change at institutional level.
Role of independent research institutes in the R&I ecosystem: hosting a
significant fringe of top-notch research, flexible, fast to implement change.
Areas of common priority:
Research & Innovation’s European strategy: Knowledge transfer and interaction
with different sectors; Impact of research; Open science and innovation; Research
evaluation, assessment and skills; careers and mobility.
Widening and cohesion: contribution through promotion of institutional change
and creating the best environment possible for researchers and impactful research.
Example, EU-LIFE inspired already 3 new alliances at EU-13 (AllianceforLife),
regional (in one area in Portugal, CO-LIFE) and national (Spain, SOMMA alliance)
levels and collaborates regularly with them.
International cooperation: providing case studies and concrete examples of
ongoing projects and contributing to new strategies. Two examples will be sent
next week and we are collecting more.
Gender equality in science: EU-LIFE ongoing strategy and impact already achieved
to promote effective change at the level of scientific leadership & scientific
ecosystem
Ongoing EU-LIFE campaign: we are glad to inform that since we met, two articles
were issued on mainstream media in Belgium and Spain featuring support for a
strong Horizon Europe budget by leading industry and scientists
Spain;
Belgium). In January/February more
articles will come out in EU-LIFE represented countries as well as a EU-LIFE twitter
campaign, as a starting point to directly address national ministries of finance and
prime-ministers.
Follow up actions
As follow up actions we agreed to:
Schedule a follow up meeting in the upcoming months
Schedule a meeting with Commissioner Chief of Cabinet to learn how can we
contribute to the strategic planning of your mandate
Send examples of ongoing projects of EU-LIFE institutes with Africa and other
regions of the world regarding innovation.
EU-LIFE Presentation
Slides on:
The mission and members of the alliance;
The Leiden ranking with EU-LIFE institutes
EU-LIFE is a grassroots organization and a true community of practice (not an
organization distant from its basis) using good practice sharing to improve
science.
Impact of EU-LIFE institutes:
o Delivering to patients
o Delivering to industry
o Creating R&I agendas
o Bridging the R&I gap
o Building strong ecosystems
EU-LIFE action in policy:
o We are regular advisors of the EC on 2 main platforms + individual
appointments on EU-LIFE sphere
o Meetings hold recently e.g. with Commissioner,
etc.
o Topics which we contributed lately: ERA, Horizon Europe, PlanS,
Research Infrastructure, Budget R&I
AGENDA
1. Presentation of EU-LIFE
2. Learning Commissioner views on priorities for the portfolio of Research,
Innovation, Education, Culture & Youth
3. Align points of convergence where EU-LIFE can contribute to the Cabinet’s agenda
About EU-LIFE
EU-LIFE is an alliance of research centres whose mission is to support and strengthen
European research excellence (www.eu-life.eu). EU-LIFE members are leading
research institutes in their countries and internationally renowned for producing
excellent research, widely transferring knowledge and nurturing talent. The basis for
the foundation of EU-LIFE was the perception that there was a gap in the science policy
landscape regarding the representation of independent research centres. Since its
foundation in 2013, EU-LIFE has become a stakeholder in European policy
participating regularly in the EC policy dialogue.
EU-LIFE Partners
Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG, Spain) | Central European Institute of
Technology (CEITEC, Czech Republic) | European Institute of Oncology (IEO, Italy) |
Flanders Institute For Biotechnology (VIB, Belgium) | Friedrich Miescher Institute for
Biomedical Research (FMI, Switzerland) | Institut Curie (France) | Institute for
Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM, Finland) | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC,
Portugal) | Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
(MDC, Germany) | Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy
of Sciences (CeMM, Austria) | The Babraham Institute (Babraham, United Kingdom) |
The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI, The Netherlands) | The University of
Copenhagen Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC, Denmark)
For more information
EU-LIFE
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http://eu-life.eu/