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On 28 June, the Board of Trustees of the Bavarian Research Foundation decided to support the Bavarian research association "ForNeRo - Seamless and Ergonomic Integration of Robotics into the Clinical Workflow" with approximately 2 million euros.

The Board of Trustees of the Bavarian Research Foundation has decided to support the Bavarian research association "FORSocialRobots - Social Capabilities for Automated Systems and Robots" with around 2 million euros.

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has proposed Iliana Ivanova as the new Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth. She would be in charge of implementing the EU's research and development programme and would succeed Mariya Gabriel, who is returning to Bulgarian politics.

On 1 July 2023, Spain will take over the rotating presidency of the EU Council of Ministers until the end of the year.

In the course of the coming months, the European Commission will organise several info days on the upcoming 2024 calls in the current work programme of Horizon Europe. Related brokerage events will be organised in cooperation with the network of National Contact Points.

The Commission has proposed an annual EU budget of €189.3 billion for 2024. The budget will be complemented by an estimated €113 billion in payments for grants under NextGenerationEU, the EU's post-pandemic recovery instrument. Their combined firepower will keep driving Europe's ongoing economic recovery and create jobs, while strengthening Europe's strategic autonomy.

The Advanced Materials 2030 Initiative (AMI2030) aims to set up a pan-European multi-sectoral accelerator for the design, development and uptake of sustainable advanced materials towards a circular economy.

The European Commission has submitted its Annual Report on Research and Technological Development Activities of the European Union and Monitoring of Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 in 2022 to the European Parliament and the Council.

The candidate Horizon Europe Partnership on antimicrobial resistance - One Health AMR - has published a first draft of its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). The One Health AMR Partnership is currently being prepared through a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) and expected to start its activities in 2025. The CSA is coordinated by the Swedish Research Council and Germany’s DLR is a partner in the consortium.

The European Commission has published a detailed analysis document that was compiled for the creation of the second Horizon Europe Strategic Plan, to cover the period 2025-27. The analysis will provide the basis for the new Strategic Plan which will guide development of the Work Programmes in the final three years of Horizon Europe. It includes an analysis of the current status of R&I in the EU, what changes are required in comparison to the first Strategic Plan and how EU and global policy developments should be reflected.