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The new Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership has officially launched and will hold an internal kick-off meeting with the European Commission at the end of January. The goals of the partnership are to build a climate-neutral, sustainable, productive and competitive blue economy by 2030 and to create favourable conditions for a healthy ocean by 2050.

On 1 January 2023, Sweden took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from the Czech Republic. The Swedish government will hold the Presidency of the Council of the EU until 30 June 2023.

More than 30 higher education and cultural institutions in Hungary, including 21 universities, have been excluded from Horizon Europe and Erasmus funding retroactively to 15/12/2022 due to ongoing concerns about Hungarian rule of law violations. Hungary has so far received just over 60 million euros under Horizon Europe alone to fund 199 projects.

Artificial intelligence affects almost all areas of our daily lives today. Research at the interface of artificial intelligence, humanities and social sciences is a highly dynamic and nowadays inevitable field. Big data and machine learning have the capacity to revolutionize research about humans, their social formations, and their cultural practices, while research in the “soft” sciences is fundamental for understanding the potential consequences of changes imposed by technological advances.

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The Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) has pledged to continue reimbursing the costs of Swiss partners in approved Horizon Europe and Euratom projects for the 2023 calls.

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The European Intellectual Property (IP) Helpdesk team has recently published a new IP Guide to highlight critical aspects and innovations related to the management of intellectual property in Horizon Europe projects: Your Guide to Intellectual Property Management in Horizon Europe.

EU research ministers adopted Council conclusions on the new European Innovation Agenda and research infrastructures with the aim of strengthening Europe's competitiveness. Europe is a leader in science, but lags behind the US and China in innovation.

The Commission has adopted today the main Horizon Europe work programme 2023-24, with around €13.5 billion to support researchers and innovators in Europe to pursue breakthrough solutions for environmental, energy, digital and geopolitical challenges.

The network of European universities of applied sciences (HAWs), UAS4EUROPE, has published „A UAS’ers guide to building innovation ecosystems” in connection with the European Innovation Agenda (EIA). The guide uses quantitative data to document the statistically measurable influence of HAWs on Europe's innovative strength and serves as a basis for constructive engagement in the implementation of the EIA.