Research Committee votes Horizon2020 proposals

On 28 November, members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), MEPs adopted their position on the EU’s future framework research programme, Horizon 2020. It will succeed the current seventh framework programme in 2014 for a period of seven years.

 

With Horizon 2020, the Commission aims to merge innovation research activities with those commonly carried out under the first seven framework programmes.

The Parliament report tries to strike a balance between fundamental research projects and those closer to industry and stresses the need to include orphan diseases in the health. Over 2000 amendments were tabled for this report.

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