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How to connect Horizon Europe and the competitiveness fund

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Programmes need distinct remits and governance to collaborate successfully, write Mattias Björnmalm and Wendy Sonneveld in an opinion article published on 6 October in Research Professional News.
6th October 2025
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The negotiations around the successor to Horizon Europe and the proposed European Competitiveness Fund are ongoing. Part of the discussion concerns the envisioned “tight connection” between these two EU funding programmes. 

In an opinion article published on 6 October, Mattias Björnmalm (Secretary General of CESAER) and Wendy Sonneveld (Co-Chair of the CESAER Task Force Sustainable Funding and Senior Policy Advisor for European Affairs at Ghent University) explore what to do — and what to avoid — to make this link a force for stronger European research and innovation.

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