This week, the Commission adopted the second Strategic Plan for Horizon Europe. Announced at the flagship Research and Innovation Days, the plan sets out three key strategic directions for EU research and innovation funding for the last three years of the programme (2025-2027):

• Green transition;
• Digital transition;
• A more resilient, competitive, inclusive and democratic Europe.

These orientations are aimed at addressing key global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, digital transition and population aging.

Open strategic autonomy and ensuring Europe's leadership in the development and deployment of critical technologies are overarching principles that apply across all three key strategic directions. (More on euraxess.ec.europa.eu)