Long term challenges and EU R&I policy : report from a workshop : Brussels, 20 February 2019

This report summarises the outcomes of a workshop on R&I policies in February 2019. It was part of an effort of the foresight correspondents' network of the European Commission to develop a shared view of EU R&I policy based on a common vision of Europe after 2030. It sought to explore sustainability transitions that Europe has to undergo to achieve sustainability, identify important long-term challenges in that context, and reflect on possible implications for EU R&I policy. The workshop was structured its discussion on the needs of the biosphere, on the needs of people, on innovation and on governance. It evidenced the need to join up our different policies and our visions of a stable, sustainable Europe, and bring innovation, supply and demand, with the public and policy-makers pulling together in the direction of sustainability. The Commission services will discuss whether these challenges - and the responses proposed form part of their vision of Europe post 2030, and whether the R&I policy agendas proposed form part of their common view of EU R&I policy.