Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EUIndTech2025 (Industrial Technologies and Materials for Sustainable Europe)
Período documentado: 2024-11-01 hasta 2025-10-31
EUIndTech2025 constitutes the European Union’s flagship event, designed to advance international dialogue and facilitate the exchange of perspectives on European policy. The conference underscored key policy initiatives, including the Clean Industrial Deal, the Omnibus Package, and the priorities of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. As one of the most significant in-person events under Horizon Europe in 2025, the conference provided an outstanding platform for high-level networking, knowledge exchange, and the development of future collaborative initiatives.
Conclusions from the Panel Discussion: 1. It is necessary to intensify personal relations between universities and enterprises. To do this it is recommended that business representatives are actively involved in university councils, and that councils of entrepreneurs are created within universities (at the faculty or college level). In addition, the periodic employment (in various forms) of academic researchers in enterprises as well as of enterprise employees in universities should be promoted – both in the areas of research and education. 2. A policy that supports intensive research and development cooperation between science and business, along with the commercialization of its results, is a prerequisite for increasing the efficiency of public R&D expenditure and for engaging in broad international cooperation. 3. The formation of productivity clusters of science-industry consortia organized around the productive use of specific local, regional, or national resources should be considered good practice. T hese clusters should serve as the foundation for national value creation networks. 4. Public support for foreign investors should be linked to their establishing research and development centers in our country. 5. To foster eco-innovation and sustainability, effective communication needs to be established during cooperation activities. This should be based on a language of benefits and values as each — 9 —9th edition of the conference “Innovative ideas of young scientists: Science – Start-up – Industry” stakeholder group understands eco-innovation and sustainable growth differently, with public administrations, NGOs, businesses, and consumers each holding different perspectives. Without improving environmental awareness among entrepreneurs and consumers, it will be difficult to successfully implement sustainable growth in Europe. It is necessary to avoid replacing one kind of dependency with another. 6. Two main factors are crucial for the development of a circular and competitive future for European industry. First, the industrial scale of the innovations needs to develop an enabling ecosystem. The required clear and predictable legislation, which plays a vital role in achieving this goal, should not only provide guidance, but also support the development of that future and remove bottlenecks to its achievement using such tools as risk minimization mechanisms, market-based incentives or the recognition of all recycling technologies. Second, it is necessary to create a demand for circular and low carbon innovations because these must be competitive to exist and survive on the market. Incentives need to be provided for circular materials, such as, for example, recycled critical raw materials or recycled plastics, by giving them priority in public procurement.
Strategic competition, increasing global instability and attempts to undermine the rules-based international order have transformed the global political landscape, and the natural environment is facing increasing damage and disruption from climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Therefore, it is important to increase the competitiveness, safety and resilience of the European Union's industrial technology and support the production and use of green materials, bearing in mind the strategic agenda 2024-2029 adopted by the European Council and other strategic documents in the area of critical raw materials, net-zero industries, advanced and green materials and technologies.The Conference was support the priorities of Polish Presidency for research and innovation: openness, inclusion and synergies aiming at discussing measures for greater participation, setting the science and innovation in the centre of economic agenda and building the synergies between EU programmes and national instruments in the field of industrial technologies.