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In December, the Spanish National Contact Point CDTI made the official presentation of the new framework programme Horizon Europe (HE) in Spain. In this context, the FORWARD partners, ULL and ULPGC, are organising a joint seminar to train researchers and R&I officers of the ORs for their future participation in Horizon Europe. The seminar will […]

The Regional Ministry of Economy, Knowledge and Employment, managed by Elena Máñez, has convened, through the Canary Islands Agency for Research, Innovation and the Information Society (ACIISI), agents from the quadruple helix (R&D&I centres, universities, companies, public administrations and civil society), on December 4th at the Fuerteventura Technology Park, to hold a new edition of […]

Webinar “The Perspectives of the Horizon Europe Programme (2021-2027) and its relation with the Thematic Groups in the FORWARD project” The event organized by ARDITI and UMa, in the scope of the FORWARD project (Fostering Research Excellence in EU Outermost Regions – https://forward-h2020.eu/), addressed topics related to the new European funding framework program. The Regional Agency […]

Though the participation of lagging behind regions in the framework programmes for R&I has been analyzed in depth, Outermost regions remain a blind spot in the growing litterature. Collective representations, reflected in the article 349 of the treaty on European Union, point out the inherent, structural characteristics of these territories, that would inhibit the participation […]

Through WP2 activities, each outermost region performed a 360° diagnosis to understand and improve their participation in frameworks programmes and also increase their research and innovation capacities, through a regional action plan and also a joint strategy. At the very begining of the Forward project, the consortium co-designed with the help of Nexa an original […]

If some ORs stakeholders are connected to major players that dominate the European Research Area l, Outermost regions (ORs) s display a heterogenous state of connectivity. Connectivity to major networks is critical for any ecosystem willing to be part of the European Research and Innovation Area. Indeed, scientific litterature has shown the critical importance of […]

For the first time, thanks to the Forward project, Outermost Regions (ORs)s enjoy factual information to support the public actions to improve their participation in the European Research and Innovation Area through two open-data dashboards. While a large number of discourses point out the weak participation of ORs in framework programmes projects and inherent structural […]

We are particularly glad to present you the first Newsletter of the FORWARD consortium. The FORWARD project – Fostering research excellence in EU Outermost Regions” is the result of the call “Mobilizing Research Excellence in EU outermost regions (OR)”, a coordination and support action (CSA) financed by the framework program Horizon 2020. The FORWARD H2020 […]

The overall objective of this project is to improve the OR excellence in research and innovation, but also to strengthen their participation in EU research and innovation funded projects, and link research activities with territorial development. FORWARD is organized in three phases: 1. Regional diagnosis, comparative analysis and definition of local and joint strategies 2. […]