Will the EU’s €80 billion bet on research and innovation pay off? A roundtable discussion with Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn's chief of staff.
Bigger and simpler than ever before – those are among the promised virtues of the Horizon 2020 programme for research and innovation that the European Commission proposed formally last November.
Now comes the hard part: Winning acceptance for the plan from the Council and Parliament. This is a political process that will take most of the next two years; but already lines are being drawn in the sand.
- What are the key issues for debate in coming months?
- What are the preliminary soundings from the Member States and stakeholder groups?
- And when the shouting’s over in 2014, what can we hope for as the return on this investment?
Featuring:
- John Bell, Chef de Cabinet for Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commission
- Jack Metthey, Director – Framework Programme and Interinstitutional Relations, DG Research, European Commission
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