Research Matters: a campaign by 14 European players to increase R&I funding

Fourteen European universities, research organisations, funding agencies, industrial partners and communications professionals launch the Research Matters campaign, an initiative to raise awareness of the crucial role played by research and to advocate for increased investment in R&I, on 13/05/2024.

The objectives of the campaign are:
• "to increase R&D funding to over 3% of GDP in the EU and all European countries;
• to double the budget of the next EU research and innovation programme (FP10)".

The campaign is an initiative of Euprio, the European association of communication professionals in higher education, in collaboration with Cesaer (Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research), Coimbra Group, EASSH (European Alliance for the Social Sciences and Humanities), EARMA (European Association of Research Managers and Administrators), EUA, the EuroTech alliance, the EU-Life alliance, The Guild, Leru, Science Europe, UniLion (the network of informal university liaison offices), Yerun (Young European Research Universities Network) and the University of…