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Please contribute to the call for evidence by 23/02/26 : https://lnkd.in/enM-435D League of European Research Universities (LERU)

SSH and FP10 ▶️ Happy to promote this STOA workshop on SSH (research), hosted by MEP Lina Galvez Munoz, and with the fantastic European University Institute President, Patrizia Isabelle Nanz, as keynote speaker ! ▶️ LERU has, since its establishment in 2002, emphasised the importance of SSH and SSH research at both national and European level : https://lnkd.in/ekwkdVph ▶️ Yet we must acknowledge that the integration of SSH into national and European research programmes and funding instruments remains insufficient. ▶️ This is why continued pressure is needed on this issue, both for the final years of FP9 and for the upcoming FP10. ▶️ This STOA workshop therefore comes at a timely moment and focuses on the right questions in this regard. https://lnkd.in/eD8HntK8 League of European Research Universities (LERU) Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) Christian Ehler Eszter Lakos Annelien Bredenoord Henriette Van Eijl Peter Benczur Gabi Lombardo Linda Doyle Peter-Paul Verbeek Michael Schaepman Peter Mathieson Sari Lindblom Wim van den Doel

SSH and FP10 ▶️ Happy to promote this STOA workshop on SSH (research), hosted by MEP Lina Galvez Munoz, and with the fantastic European University Institute President, Patrizia Isabelle Nanz, as keynote speaker ! ▶️ LERU has, since its establishment in 2002, emphasised the importance of SSH and SSH research at both national and European level : https://lnkd.in/ekwkdVph ▶️ Yet we must acknowledge that the integration of SSH into national and European research programmes and funding instruments remains insufficient. ▶️ This is why continued pressure is needed on this issue, both for the final years of FP9 and for the upcoming FP10. ▶️ This STOA workshop therefore comes at a timely moment and focuses on the right questions in this regard. https://lnkd.in/eD8HntK8 League of European Research Universities (LERU) Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) Christian Ehler Eszter Lakos Annelien Bredenoord Henriette Van Eijl Peter Benczur Gabi Lombardo Linda Doyle Peter-Paul Verbeek Michael Schaepman Peter Mathieson Sari Lindblom Wim van den Doel

The European Research Area (ERA) will not be completed by goodwill alone ➡️ LERU has submitted again its input originally prepared for the Call for Evidence on the ERA Act, now as part of the European Commission’s public consultation (which ends today), alongside completing the Commission’s questionnaire on the future ERA Act : https://lnkd.in/euUKQBna ➡️ LERU argues that the time has come to move beyond purely voluntary coordination and to shape a credible, binding European Research Area Act. ➡️ After 25 years of ERA policy, persistent fragmentation of rules, uneven R&D investment, administrative burden and limited mobility continue to weaken Europe’s scientific and innovation capacity. ➡️ The Commission’s intention to propose an ERA Act is therefore politically timely — but its success will depend on the choices made now. ➡️ LERU calls for an ERA Act as a regulation under Article 179 TFEU, anchored in the Treaties and focused on the realisation of the fifth freedom : the free circulation of researchers, knowledge and technology. ➡️ The Act should combine passive prohibitions (removing national barriers) with active obligations (driving national reforms), legally backing up existing EU principles on ERA topics like research careers, open science, integrity, infrastructures, mobility, research security, etc. ➡️ Above all, the ERA Act must be ambitious yet realistic, enforceable by 2029, and supported by stronger, binding investment commitments well beyond the long-overdue 3% GDP target. ➡️ Getting this right is not a technical exercise — it is a strategic political choice about Europe’s future competitiveness, sovereignty and scientific leadership. League of European Research Universities (LERU) Linda Doyle Peter-Paul Verbeek Peter Mathieson Sari Lindblom Michael Schaepman Severine Vermeire Erik Renström David Dreyer Lassen Wilco Hazeleger Sarah de Rijcke Luc Sels Matthias H. Tschöp Kerstin Krieglstein Joël Mesot Audrey Leuba Nathalie DRACH-TEMAM Frédérique Berrod Présidente Camille GALAP Joan Guàrdia Olmos Marina Brambilla Geraint Rees Amanda Wolthuizen Manuel Aleixo Magda De Carli Maria Cristina Russo Ekaterina Zaharieva Eszter Lakos Christian Ehler René Repasi

Fully agree with Mattias’ conclusion 👇. ASAP “The European Commission must now articulate how the envisaged tight connection between FP10 and the ECF will work in practice, so that Europe can fully mobilise its strengths and avoid slowing itself down at a moment when acceleration is essential.” https://lnkd.in/etBmEJHW League of European Research Universities (LERU) Mattias Björnmalm, PhD CESAER Louise Drogoul Ekaterina Zaharieva Manuel Aleixo Maria Cristina Russo Christian Ehler Eszter Lakos Dan Nica René Repasi

EU Inc. A key issue for companies and universities in Europe in today’s Special Address by EC President Ursula von der Leyen at the World Economic Forum : “We will soon put forward our 28th regime. The ultimate aim is to create a new truly European company structure. We call it EU Inc., with a single and simple set of rules that will apply seamlessly all over our Union. So that business can operate across Member States much more easily. Our entrepreneurs, the innovative companies, will be able to register a company in any Member State within 48 hours – fully online. They will enjoy the same capital regime all across the EU. Ultimately, we need a system where companies can do business and raise financing seamlessly across Europe – just as easily as in uniform markets like the US or China. If we get this right – and if we move fast enough – this will not only help EU companies grow. But it will attract investment from across the world.” https://lnkd.in/dppuEa82 League of European Research Universities (LERU)

Looking back and looking ahead, I can only say :

Looking forward to read this long-awaited book "The Triangle of Power - Rebalancing the new world order" by Finnish President Alexander Stubb ! At the launch earlier this week, President Stubb stated : "It is an attempt to explain what is going on in international relations and how we can get things back on track again. Worked on it for four years. Tried to make it short and snappy without cutting too many corners. It will come out in 12 different languages. My main argument is that the liberal world order is unravelling. Multilateral cooperation is giving away to multipolar rivalry and conflict. The new world order is being shaped by three major forces : the Global West, the Global East and the Global South. Many moving parts at the moment, but my main thesis is that it will be the Global South that determines whether the world will tilt towards cooperation or fragmentation. The book is a call for values-based realism and dignified foreign policy. Unless our current international institutions are reformed, we will be moving back to a Hobbesian world. Let’s make sure it won’t happen. Everyone has agency. If there is a problem, fix it." https://lnkd.in/di_JcSjU League of European Research Universities (LERU)