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The Guild together with 14 European university and research organisations call for an ambitious Horizon Europe budget to foster excellent cross-border research and innovation (R&I). This investment is essential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and build a prosperous future for European society.

On 3 July, The Guild held an interdisciplinary debate on Horizon Europe’s Strategic Planning process, which determines the priorities for challenge-led funding at EU level.

The Guild congratulates the seventeen winning alliances on the opportunity to become truly integrated European Universities.

In the position paper published today, The Guild’s academic communities identify priority areas for Horizon Europe’s Health cluster.

The Guild has published a contribution to the Strategic Planning process of Horizon Europe, presenting principles for the implementation of horizontal aspects of the programme. The document aims at helping decision-makers translate the legal framework into practices that would allow Horizon Europe to succeed in its mission.

Guild statement on Brexit

^{During a recent visit to the University of Bern (UniBern), Jan Palmowski and Rector Christian Leumann toured the site of UniBern's groundbreaking new centre for translational medicine: the Sitem-Insel.}

^{Capping a visit that included discussions with members of the university, along with Felicitas Pauss, Chair of the Swiss Science Foundation, Antonio Loprieno (Chair of All European Academies, ALLEA and President of Swiss Academies of Arts & Sciences), Palmowski sat down with Leumann and some of UniBern's world-leading academics to discuss what Bern's Guild membership could mean for them.}

^{By Faryal Mirza}

On 8 October, Jan Palmowski, The Guild’s Secretary-General, spoke at a public hearing on Horizon Europe (HEU) at the European Parliament. The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) held the meeting together with other stakeholders and MEPs who shed light on how to maximise HEU’s competitiveness and societal benefits.

On 6 September, The Guild and the UK’s Russell Group co-hosted, ‘Science for Society: Opportunities for Horizon Europe’. Academic leaders and EU policymakers from the Commission and the Austrian Presidency discussed ways to ensure that the social sciences and humanities are fully integrated into Horizon Europe and why this is important.

On 4 September, The Guild and SwissCore held a joint event on climate change that brought together leading climatologists and EU policymakers to discuss the politics that hinder and enable climate action and mitigation.