Thematic focus

Learn about an expert workshop’s results on practices and initiatives to improve access and sharing of intellectual assets to address pressing societal needs.

The Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on Knowledge Valorisation, engaging 18 countries, has aimed to improve policies and public support for knowledge uptake and deployment.

To engage more citizens in research and innovation on climate change, DG Research and Innovation launches the first European Citizens’ Hackathon Championship.

Research and innovation (R&I) play a key role in addressing some of our pressing societal challenges, for instance related to health, food and climate issues. This require R&I actors to rethink the way they can maximise the use of their knowledge assets in order to ensure societal impact.

A new initiative to bring young people closer to research, innovation and knowledge valorisation

The new codes will support the implementation of the Council Recommendation on the guiding principles for knowledge valorisation.

The European Commission is inviting stakeholders to provide their input on a draft Code of practice on industry-academia co-creation for knowledge valorisation and a draft Code of practice on citizens’ engagement for knowledge valorisation.

To further support the uptake of R&I results through standardisation, the European Commission is launching the European Standardisation Panel Survey on 14 October, which is World Standards Day.

The European Commission has published the report of the first European Standardisation Panel Survey, marking a significant milestone in creating value from research and innovation through standardisation.