As a follow up to its Europe 2020 Strategy, the European Commission adopted, on 6th October 2010, the Innovation Union Flagship Initiative.
EUREC Agency welcomes some of the ideas raised in the document, such as the need to align rule and timetables of the Member States’ call for proposals, and the need to make excellence a guiding principle for education.
However, it also highlights how the SET-Plan has been totally eclipsed in the document.
The EUREC Agency position paper is available for download here.