BIOVEGEN participates in “Missions in Horizon Europe: design and impact by and for Spanish society”

BIOVEGEN participated in the event “Missions in Horizon Europe: design and impact by and for Spanish society” which was organized by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and which took place within the framework of the COP25 held at IFEMA-Madrid.

The objective of the meeting was to inform about the next European Framework Program for Science and Technology, Horizon Europe, and to debate a new part of it: Missions. The day was planned as an exercise to debate and contribute to the design and content of the five areas defined in the Missions:

Adaptation to climate change, including social transformation.
Climate neutral and smart cities.
Soil health and nutrition.
Healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters.
Cancer.

To this end, the event featured two debates, one dedicated to the current state of defining the strategic area and priority objectives for each Mission and another on the common cross-cutting themes of interest in the design and structure of the Missions. Both had the participation of experts from the Mission Boards.

Finally, interactive work sessions were held for each of the Missions in which agents from each sector, including BIOVEGEN, spoke with experts from the Mission Boards, the Spanish representatives in the Strategic Committee of Horizon Europe for Missions and representatives of the Commission in the scope of each Mission.

The objective of these meetings was to identify the interests of the attendees regarding the specific objectives or Missions, the areas of action or the actions/instruments that must be defined in Horizon Europe, the innovations that must be considered and the mechanisms necessary for synergies in this Mission.

Furthermore, the European Commission has promoted a survey on the Mission 3 “Soil health and food” in order to know the perception that society has on this topic/Mission to use the responses in the design, development and implementation of the Mission. You can access the survey at the following link.

Program of the day

10:15 a.m. The future Framework Programme: Horizon Europe and the Missions

Neville Reeve. European Comission. Unit A4

10:30 a.m. Institutional Opening and Debate on the new approach to Horizon Europe Missions

Moderated by: Rafael Rodrigo, Secretary General Coordination of Scientific Policy, MCIU

Lina Gávlez, European Parliament, Vice President ITRE Commission
Pedro Duque, Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities

11:00 a.m. Coffee and interaction between attendees

12:00 p.m. Missions under Horizon Europe. Challenges and what to expect.

Moderated by: Clara E. García, Research Advisor at the Representation of Spain before the EU

Members of the Mission Boards:

Asun Lera St. Clair (BSC), Adaptation to climate change, including social transformation
July Louvres (UPM), Climate neutral and smart cities
Carmen Vela (Eurofins INGENASA), Soil health and food
Darko Manakovski (MNK Global development), Healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters
Pedro Pita (New University of Lisbon), Cancer

12:45 p.m. Spain's interest in the Mission: Debate on transversal aspects in the design of the Mission

Moderated by: Clara E. García, Research Advisor at the Representation of Spain before the EU

Members of the Mission Boards.

2:00 p.m. Food and interaction between attendees

2:30 p.m. National design sessions, inputs for the co-design of the Missions

The Mission in soil health and food

Moderator: José Manuel González (CDTI)

2:30 p.m. Introduction to the Co-design Session

The mission of soil health and food in practice. Annette Schneegans (European Commission, DG AGRI)
National Mirror Group. Rocío Lansac (INIA) / Juan Luis Ramos (CSIC)
Point of view of the Mission Board / Mission Assembly. Carmen Vela (Eurofins INGENASA) / Susana Bautista (Univ. Alicante)

3:00 p.m. Discussion with participants

Missions of interest to Spain. Key challenges and expected impacts.
Areas of action of the Mission
Actions to be developed within the scope of the Mission
Actions and instruments in Horizon EU to implement the missions:
Type of innovations within the missions:

3:50 p.m. Final conclusions and next steps.

Rocío Lansac. INIA

4:00 p.m. End of Session