Four JUs explore synergising at Brussels event

Four joint undertakings (JU) have discussed how to ‘explore synergies’ at the Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership (ECSEL) Consortium Building Event in Brussels.

Presentations from Clean Sky 2, Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 and Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 highlighted their objectives to about 400 participants and set out their interactions with the ECSEL JU.

The JUs support collaborative research and innovation actions with a combined value of €14bn in public and private contributions. Public contributions are provided by Horizon 2020, and in the case of the ECSEL JU also by national funding authorities.

The interactive session also benefitted from the active participation of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture, addressing precision farming, the association of automotive R&D organisations, and the French association of the printed electronics industry.

The ECSEL JU said that follow up actions will concentrate both on generating cross-cutting project ideas and scrutinising rules and procedures in order to ‘remove roadblocks and facilitate co-ordinated actions among different instruments when the objectives are synergistic’.