Welcome to Outside the Box: Innovative Ideas from CEPS Ideas Lab, the podcast series that brings you the most forward-thinking ideas from CEPS' annual Ideas Lab event.
Every year, CEPS’ Ideas Lab brings together a diverse group of policymakers, experts, and thought leaders to explore innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. From digital sovereignty and AI to climate change, energy transition, and sustainable trade, each episode dives into the ideas that are being debated, discussed, and developed at ideas Lab to address the complex issues facing our global society.
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Welcome to Outside the Box: Innovative Ideas from CEPS Ideas Lab, the podcast series that brings you the most forward-thinking ideas from CEPS' annual Ideas Lab event.
Every year, CEPS’ Ideas Lab brings together a diverse group of policymakers, experts, and thought leaders to explore innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. From digital sovereignty and AI to climate change, energy transition, and sustainable trade, each episode dives into the ideas that are being debated, discussed, and developed at ideas Lab to address the complex issues facing our global society.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In an ever uncertain and increasingly dangerous world, the EU must lead the way in tackling global challenges, using science and technology for the benefit of humanity.
European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, has vowed to make this happen, publicly proclaiming that the EU ‘aims to put research and innovation, science, and technology at the heart of Europe’s economy’.
This would also go a long way towards fulfilling another one of von der Leyen’s key second term objectives – reinvigorating European industrial competitiveness. Yes, ‘innovation’ and ‘competitiveness’ have always been particularly popular buzzwords in the Brussels lexicon but right now they’re truly capturing the zeitgeist, especially following a plethora of reports from the likes of Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi, to name but two.
And the EU’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (R&I) – the largest R&I funding programme in the world – is one of the most potent tools in the EU’s arsenal to achieve all these lofty ambitions. With the end of the ninth Framework Programme, Horizon Europe, looming, ahem, on the horizon, the tenth (FP10) is scheduled to run from 2028-34.
FP10 presents the perfect opportunity to restore and relaunch Europe’s leading role in scientific breakthroughs and groundbreaking innovation for everyone’s benefit. Even with a few years still to go before launch, now is the moment to really begin hammering down and agreeing an ambitious vision and structure for FP10.
With all this in mind, CEPS recently published a comprehensive report (supported by Imperial College London and the Wellcome Trust) on how the EU’s leaders can do this. The vision it promotes for FP10 will require several reforms – and to be clear, enacting them won’t be a simple walk in the park. But they will be absolutely worth it in the end.
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