The revival of the European Research Area is among Ursula von der Leyen’s top priorities for her first year as European Commission president, but most of the 43 items on her to-do list cover new initiatives needed to raise the EU’s competitiveness in green and digital technologies.
In the work programmes for 2020, the commission detailed for the first time how von der Leyen’s political ambitions to advance European technologies required for greening and digitising the economy will be put in to practice.
The commission also set a timetable for producing a new plan for the future of research and innovation and the European Research Area before the summer, and promised to publish details on the research missions in Horizon Europe by the end of the year.
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