25 September 2019. Horizon Europe Mission on Soil health and food. This policy conference brought together high-level speakers to debate and shape the future research and innovation landscape.
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4 July 2019. Commission launches work on major research and innovation missions for cancer, climate, oceans and soil
The Commission is establishing five ‘mission boards’. Their first deliverable will be to propose concrete targets and timelines for each mission by the end of 2019. They will be chaired by the following outstanding individuals who will contribute with their experience, authority and credibility:
Discussion about a Mission on Soil Health and Food.
The debate included soil management in agriculture and forestry for food and nutrition security, and the delivery of non-food products and public goods; soil management beyond agriculture and forestry; restoration and remediation of soils, brownfields, soil sealing; potential of soils and soil management practices for climate mitigation and adaptation; etc.
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Our food systems are unsustainable. How can they be urgently transformed to simultaneously address multiple-objectives - climate, environment, safety, nutrition for health, and inclusion? A systemic approach to R&I will provide new opportunities and solutions, and support evidence-based policy making and implementation.
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- Phil HOGAN (European Commission), Speaker
- Cornelis Pieter VEERMAN, Speaker
- Tom TYNAN (European Commission, Belgium), Panellist
Transforming of Food Systems for People, Planet and Climate
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- Mark REDSHAW (Evonik Venture Capital GmbH, Germany), Speaker
- Corinna HAWKES (City, University of London, United Kingdom), Speaker
- Merete JOHANSSON (RealFoodSystems.org, Switzerland), Speaker
- Charles GODFRAY (Oxford University, United Kingdom), Speaker
- Samantha BURGESS (WWF, Belgium), Speaker
- Jamie MORRISON (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy), Speaker
- Bernhard KOWATSCH (World Food Programme, Germany), Speaker
Related:
- Mission-oriented policy for Horizon Europe
- ‘Governing missions in the European Union’ by Professor Mariana Mazzucato
- Interview with Professor Mariana Mazzucato
- ‘Mission-oriented research & innovation in the European Union: a problem-solving approach to fuel innovation-led growth’ by Professor Mariana Mazzucato
- Horizon Europe
- European Research and Innovation Days
Professor Mazzucato’s first report for Commissioner Moedas, called ‘Mission-Oriented Research and Innovation in the European Union’ set out the main characteristics of mission-oriented research and innovation:
- Bold, inspirational, with wide societal relevance;
- Targeted, measurable, and time-bound;
- Ambitious, but realistic R&I actions;
- Cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral and cross-actor innovation;
- Drive multiple, bottom-up solutions.
Mission-oriented policies can be defined as systemic public policies that draw on frontier knowledge to attain specific goals or “big science deployed to meet big problems” 7 . Missions provide a solution, an opportunity, and an approach to address the numerous challenges that people face in their daily lives.
- Ms Connie Hedegaard, former European Commissioner for Climate Action, for the mission on ‘Adaptation to Climate Change including Societal Transformation’
- Professor Harald zur Hausen, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, for the mission on ‘Cancer’
- Mr Pascal Lamy, former Trade Commissioner and Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, for the mission on ‘Healthy Oceans, Seas, Coastal and Inland Waters’
- Professor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, former Mayor of Warsaw, for the mission on ‘Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities’
- Mr Cees Veerman, former Dutch Agriculture Minister, for the mission on ‘Soil Health and Food’.
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