We (also) have projects, they're fine, but they've become very dispersed. But they're too broad to really direct innovation. 'We have these challenges and they're very important. 'With a mission you can actually answer, “Did we achieve it or not? Yes or no?” How do they differ from societal challenges such as demographic change and food security, which underpin the EU’s current research funding programme? The bold, important problems – big societal objectives that are going to matter across Europe. These problems are more social and wicked than going to the moon which was mainly a technical feat.' '(It's) using innovation to address a challenge by solving a problem. The idea of arranging Europe’s research and innovation funding around missions is being discussed as part of the preparations for the EU’s next funding programme after Horizon 2020. She was asked by Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, to advise him on missions and presented him with a report on mission-oriented research and innovation in the EU at the Centre for European Policy Studies ideas lab event in Brussels, Belgium, on 22 February.
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