The European Commission has opened the final online consultation on the draft plan for Horizon Europe, the proposed €94.1 billion seven-year research programme.

The Commission particularly welcomes views from organisations and networks with a cross-border dimension and a mission of advocacy relevant to research and innovation (the so-called umbrella organisations).

During the Horizon Europe strategic planning process, 2 sets of co-design activities took place between June 2019 and October 2019.

Firstly, a web-based consultation (open to the whole world) that collected 6,806 answers between 28 June 2019 and 4 October 2019.

Secondly, through meetings and exchanges between the Commission’s services and almost 4,000 stakeholders during the European Research and Innovation Days (24-26 September 2019) which collected the views from a large stakeholder community.

This exercise fed into a report on the co-design activities and the revised version of Orientations towards the first Strategic Plan for Horizon Europe. This document is the basis for this last web-based phase that will close on 17 November 2019.

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