‘Innovative Advanced Materials for EU‘ partnership adopted in the 2nd strategic plan Horizon Europe 2025-2027
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On 20 March 2024, the European Commission (EC) adopted the second strategic plan for Horizon Europe, confirming the acceptance of the Graphene Flagship and Advanced Materials 2030 Initiative’s proposed Innovative Materials for EU partnership.
Key elements
The EC’s second strategic plan sets out 3 key orientations for the EU’s research and innovation funding for the period 2025-2027:
- Green transition
- Digital transition
- A more resilient, competitive, inclusive and democratic Europe
It provides an overview of the 5 EU Missions’ achievements that were launched in 2021: Adaptation to Climate Change; Cancer; Restore our Ocean and Waters; Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities; and a Soil Deal for Europe.
EU Missions are flagships of Horizon Europe. Their aim is to channel efforts across programmes to support well-defined, urgent and bold global challenges with engagement and support of policymakers, stakeholders and the wider public.
In 2025-2027, more work will be done to ensure that missions successfully shift from their initial phase to deployment and impact.
It identifies 9 new European co-funded and co-programmed partnerships:
- Brain Health
- Forests and Forestry for a Sustainable Future
- Innovative Materials for EU
- Raw Materials for the Green and Digital Transition
- Resilient Cultural Heritage
- Social Transformations and resilience
- Solar Photovoltaics
- Textiles of the Future
- Virtual Worlds
The partnership ‘Innovative Materials for EU – IAM4EU’ under Horizon Europe’
This public-private partnership is supported by the Advanced Materials 2030 Initiative (AMI2030, steered by EMIRI, EUMAT, SusChem and ManuFuture) and the Graphene Flagship. The two initiatives have been working together to draft a detailed partnership proposal and a first version of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), based on all the input from the relevant stakeholders’ communities.
The mission of the IAM4EU partnership is to establish and maintain a cross-sectorial, multidisciplinary, collaborative Europe-wide Research and Innovation ecosystem that will significantly accelerate the time-to-market of sustainable innovative advanced materials designed for a digital & circular economy.
- IAM4EU will cover all the segments of the materials value chain, as well as technologies and infrastructures (making use of, supporting and/or developing) enabling an accelerated design, development and uptake of Innovative Advanced Materials (IAMs)
- IAM4EU will support the full IAMs innovation cycle (from basic research to innovation uptake)
- IAM4EU will recognize the key enabling role of all types of IAMs
- As a co-programmed partnership with industry, IAM4EU will ensure that research investments meet industrial needs and boost uptake into marketable products.
The current version of the SRIA is available here and has been shared with the European Commission. The document will be updated throughout the year and a final version is expected for the end of 2024.
On 13 March 2024, AMI2030 and Graphene Flagship organised an online workshop to present:
- the Communication ’Advanced Materials for Industrial Leadership’ published on 27 February 2024 by the European Commission
- the main objectives of the IAM4EU partnership
- the main parts of the IAM4EU SRIA
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