Work in Parliament BMS research in Europe

In the quality of rapporteur for the Specific Programme implementing Horizon 2020, Maria da Graça Carvalho participated as a speaker in the debate hosted by MEP Professor Ioannis A. Tsoukalas (EPP), and Pan European Biological and Medical Sciences Research Infrastructures: Enabling world-class biological and medical sciences (BMS) research in Europe: Horizon 2020 and the pan-European research infrastructures, that took place in the European Parliament.

The Horizon 2020, currently under discussion in the EP, will define the scope and the direction of research in Europe in the next decade. This discussiontook place in a difficult economic context for many EU countries.

A fundamental element of the Horizon 2020 are pan-European research infrastrucutures as an engine to promote world-class research. They will be key in enabling Europe to establish a European Research Area based on Excellence that can give a response to EU Societal Challenges.

Agenda  

• Opening and state of play by Prof. Ioannis A. Tsoukalas
• The impact of Horizon 2020 on the Biological and Medical Sciences research infrastructures (BMS RIs)
• Jan Ellenberg, Head of Unit, CBB, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
• Antje Keppler, BMS RI Representative

Discussion with:

• Maria Da Graça Carvalho (EPP), Rapporteur for the Specific Programme Implementing Horizon 2020 - The Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020)
• Kent Johansson (ALDE), Shadow rapporteur for Horizon 2020 package and for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).
• Marisa Matias (GUE/NGL), Rapporteur for the "Strategic Innovation Agenda of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)" and Shadow rapporteur for the Horizon 2020 package.
• Vicky Ford (ECR), Shadow rapporteur for the Horizon 2020 package
• Questions and Answers
• Closing remarks by Prof. Ioannis A. Tsoukalas