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FP10 proposal risks weakening Europe’s innovation capacity

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To compete globally, the EU needs a robust research and innovation budget and a strategy that promotes excellence and collaboration says Anders Söderholm, President of CESAER Member university KTH Royal Institute of Technology together with colleagues.
27th November 2025
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A competitive industry depends not only on support at the end of the development chain, but also in the early stages, where competing companies work together to develop new methods, data and technologies that entire industries and societies can use as a foundation for innovation. We must therefore urgently increase investments in excellent research and strengthen the transfer of knowledge from universities to society and industry.

In a viewpoint published on 20 November by Anders Söderholm (President of CESAER Member KTH Royal Institute of Technology) along with Hans Adolfsson (President of Stockholm University) and Annika Östman Wernerson (President of Karolinska Institutet), the authors discuss the growing challenges of remaining competitive in a globalised world and highlight the crucial role of the next EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP10).

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