EU-US R&I collaboration: "We intend to align our respective policies" to address global challenges

"We intend to align our respective policies as appropriate through mutual policy learning and setting shared policy objectives, including through lab-to-lab exchanges of visiting scientists, promoting joint R&I collaboration, supporting the participation of each other researchers in respective funding programmes, including training, career development, and two-way mobility of researchers, and coordinating our respective positions in multilateral R&I initiatives", can one read in the joint statement on R&I signed by the US and the EU on 16/01/2025.

The statement is derived from the conclusions of the Joint Consultative Group meeting held in March 2024 in Washington DC.

Both sides recognise they share basic principles and fundamental values for international cooperation in R&I. They commit to fostering collaboration in health, green transitions, ocean, climate, circular economy and bioeconomy.

"The signature of this statement, under the EU-U.S. Agreement on Science and Technology Cooperation, reaffirms the engagement of both sides to deepen their partnership on research and innovation…