Ref. Ares(2019)5332022 - 21/08/2019
Commissioner Carlos Moedas
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BILATERAL WITH
AT&T
Waldhuus Hotel
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1. STEERING BRIEF
1.1 Scene setter You have received an invitation from AT&T to meet
during
Davos.
Some possible points for discussion include:
• Inform the
AT&T about the EU R&D Agenda- proposed by AT&T
• Possibility of AT&T R&D facilities in Europe- - proposed by AT&T (check
with CAB)
1.2 Speaking points
EU R&D Agenda
• Our vision and agenda for Europe is based on the 3 Os- Open Innovation, Open
Science, Open to the World:
− Open innovation is about involving far more actors in the innovation process,
from researchers, to entrepreneurs, to users, to governments and civil society.
This means creating the right ecosystems, increasing investment, and bringing
more companies and regions together allowing also for knowledge diffusion.
Here our main initiatives include: the Pan-European Fund-of-Funds, the
European Innovation Council pilot, Innovation Deals
− Open Science is about making research more open, global, collaborative,
creative and closer to society. Opening up Science is key to also achieve
excellence. The main EU initiatives in this respect include: European Open
Science Cloud; Open Access in H2020 for peer-reviewed scientific publications,
and research data
− Open to the World is about working and collaborating in research with
international partners to tackle global challenges. For example, Horizon2020 is
opened also to non-EU members under H2020 Association agreements. We also
believe that science diplomacy is an important tool to connect with different
partners around common research challenges (SESAME project).
• What we will be continuing to pursue and/or aiming for in the future in line with
the '3Os agenda' includes:
− Establishing a European Innovation Council (EIC) to identify and scale-up
breakthrough innovation which is fast moving, high risk, disrupts existing
business models, and has the potential to create entirely new markets
− Launching a set of bold European research and innovation missions with
ambitious goals.
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− Future proofing EU and national regulatory frameworks (apply the innovation
principle).
− Making European universities more entrepreneurial, increasing inter-disciplinary
and digital skills.
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