Strategy to promote national participation in European Union funding programmes 2021-2027 – Research & Innovation, Erasmus, Space and Digital

The working document on the "Strategy to promote national participation in European Union funding programs 2021-2027 - Research & Innovation, Erasmus, Space and Digital" contains the terms for the adoption of a national strategy that aims to double, in 2021-2027, the Portuguese presence in European Programs compared to 2014-2020, and attract around two billion euros of European Union funding in the areas of Research and Innovation in that period, as well as tripling the number of students on mobility in Higher Education.

This document was drawn up through the PERIN network, which involves the institutional partners Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I. P. (FCT) (FCT), the Agência Nacional de Inovação (ANI), S.A., the Agência Espacial Portuguesa (PT Space), the Agência de Investigação Clínica e Inovação Biomédica (AICIB), the Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior (DGES) and the Agência Nacional Erasmus+ Educação e Formação, whose mission is to strengthen and double Portugal's participation in the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework, and to promote the use of structural funds as a national counterpart in all instruments that provide for co-financing.

Bearing in mind that in the 2021-2027 period we will have the opportunity to count on different European funding programs in the areas of Research & Innovation, Erasmus, Space and Digital that can be complementary to each other, namely "Horizon Europe", "Erasmus+", "European Space Program", "European Digital Program" and the "Connecting Europe Facility 2 - Digital" (CEF2-Digital), it is therefore opportune to debate the lessons for the future, as today we live in a new framework for thinking about Portugal's evolution in the European context.

The network PERIN network will be able to promote, through its institutional partners, the national network of offices promoting Portugal's participation in European funding programs, as well as the network of delegates/NCPs that has now been extended for the next 7 years, the participation of research and business institutions in those European funding programs in a more coherent and complementary way.

It is in this context that the Working document "Strategy to promote national participation in European Union funding programs 2021-2027 - Research & Innovation, Erasmus, Space and Digital", inviting all interested parties to submit proposals and/or comments by December 31, 2020, using the form available on the website.

After that date, the "Strategy to promote national participation in European Union funding programs 2021-2027 - Research & Innovation, Erasmus, Space and Digital" will be finalized, with the appropriate measures and actions to be evaluated annually.