{"id":7894,"date":"2025-06-26T16:33:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/fp10-et-competitivite-europeenne-position-paper-imt\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:54:48","slug":"fp10-et-competitivite-europeenne-position-paper-imt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/en\/fp10-et-competitivite-europeenne-position-paper-imt\/","title":{"rendered":"FP10 and European Competitiveness : IMT Calls for an Ambitious, Coherent Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the European Commission prepares to unveil its proposal for the 2028\u20132034 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) on 16 July, the Institut Mines-T\u00e9l\u00e9com has published a position paper reaffirming its support for a strong, autonomous framework programme for research and innovation (FP10), coordinated with the future European Competitiveness Fund.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read the Position Paper (PDF)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Research and Competitiveness : Striking the Right Balance for 2028\u20132034<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Research and innovation are expected to play an increasingly central role in shaping the European Union\u2019s competitiveness. The upcoming Commission proposal will include a new budgetary framework for 2028\u20132034, potentially featuring the creation of a European Competitiveness Fund<\/strong>. This fund would integrate the entire investment cycle \u2014 from research to manufacturing \u2014 in alignment with the EU\u2019s industrial and technological ambitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context, IMT calls for maintaining an autonomous, financially ring-fenced framework programme<\/strong> to ensure stable R&I funding<\/strong>. This programme should be able to work effectively alongside new budgetary instruments, without being absorbed into a single sectoral structure \u2014 a move that could dilute fundamental research and the exploratory dimension of innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the Competitiveness Fund, IMT supports a two-pillar funding structure<\/strong> :<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • A framework programme dedicated to scientific excellence and breakthrough innovation,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Simplified programmes focused on industrialisation and the EU\u2019s technological sovereignty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    \u201cStrong coordination, yes ; merger, no.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    Supporting the entire research\u2013innovation continuum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    IMT advocates a comprehensive vision of the continuum from fundamental research to applied research to industrial valorisation \u2014 a cornerstone of a resilient, sovereign, and innovative Europe. This requires strengthening synergies between public and private stakeholders, developing strategic partnerships, and improving the valorisation of research results \u2014 notably through more agile funding mechanisms to support high-potential projects (KER, Proof of Concept, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Institut also stresses the need for open, less prescriptive programmes to stimulate curiosity-driven research, and for reinforcing the European Research Area by supporting researcher mobility, research infrastructures, and university alliances such as EULiST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A European Vision for 2028\u20132034<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    This position is part of the ongoing strategic debate between European institutions. While the Commission will present a revised budgetary framework in July, the European Parliament, in a report adopted in May, opposed merging existing programmes into a single fund, preferring a modular and coordinated approach. In March, the Council also reaffirmed its support for an FP10 modelled on Horizon Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Against this backdrop, the Institut Mines-T\u00e9l\u00e9com is committed to contributing actively to the discussions, in support of a clear, ambitious, impact-oriented research policy<\/strong>, aligned with Europe\u2019s major industrial, digital, environmental, and societal transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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