News archive - Agenda of the 1st Virtual R&I Meeting (7 April 2020)
Due to the COVID-19 emergency, the European Commission decided to defer the next Steering Platform Ministerial meeting (originally planned for May/June 2020) to a later date in the year. At the same time, several virtual meetings have been planned to foster mutual discussion on the key aspects of the socio-economic crisis deriving from the pandemic, while also continuing the work aimed at a better integration of the WBs into the European Research Area.
The first virtual working meeting was organised on April, 7 from 10:00 to 11:30 CET, to discuss on the following:
AGENDA
10:00-10:10 Welcome remarks and Introduction to the meeting Ruta Zarnauskaite, Head of Unit “Horizon Europe Association’, EC DG R&I
10:10-11:00 Covid-19 emergency situation and impact
- Current measures (current international co-operation + interest to further coordinate across the region and with the EU); EC DG R&I, WB6, RCC
- Impact of Corona outbreak (plus economic crisis) on national R&I financing (e.g. measures/ideas to boost innovation, EIC, etc.) and the priority direction of measures; EC DG R&I, WB6, RCC
11:00-11:30 Horizon Europe and other updates
- Latest developments from the side of the European Commission, EC DG R&I
11:30-11:35 Concluding remarks and next steps
- EC
- Western Balkans
- General
Entry created by Admin WBC-RTI.info on June 1, 2020
Modified on August 24, 2020
