Eurochild members, the University of Deusto and Utrecht University, released a position paper together with other Eurochild Children's Council members, to support the European Commission’s consultation process for Horizon Europe, the next EU research and innovation programme.
The Strategic Plan for the Horizon Europe Programme demonstrates how the European Union clearly highlights the importance of Research and Innovation (R&I) in finding new solutions to the challenges facing Europeans, and how it aims to induce R&I impact long after the completion of the programme.
The European Institutions (the Commission, Parliament and Council) are identifying the main challenges Europeans currently and will soon face. They are deciding on how to allocate European resources for Research and Innovation in 2021–2027. Horizon Europe will have a budget of around €100 billion to articulate these priorities, and children and young people should be fully engaged both in the definition of these topics and in the research. The participation of children and youth is essential to channel the creativity and potential of younger generations as agents of change!
Instructions:
- Please follow the link to the Horizon Europe online Consultation. Here you will find an introduction to the consultation.
- Please fill in multiple choice sections A, B, and C. You can find links to the ‘orientations/strategic plan’ document in the instructions, which is the current draft of the Horizon Europe programme: the document we wish to influence.
- For section D, please tick the first 6 boxes. In the ‘general input’ box, please copy and paste the text from the position paper.