For Yet Another Year of Excellent Research

Bottom-up research underpins long-term competitiveness and innovation. Science Europe supports creating a dedicated instrument in Horizon Europe 2028–2034 to strengthen collaborative, researcher-driven approaches. Complementing existing schemes, it would boost scientific capacity across Europe. Science Europe welcomes this momentum and stands ready to help shape the most effective implementation.

This report summarises the key outcomes of Science Europe’s webinar Driving Environmental Sustainability in Research Organisations: Building Institutional Strategies for Change, held on 23 January 2026. Bringing together experts from across the research and innovation landscape, the webinar examined how research organisations can develop and implement effective sustainability strategies, strengthen governance arrangements, and integrate environmental considerations throughout their activities.

This report summarises the discussions and recommendations from Science Europe’s webinar 'Equality and Inclusion: Strengthening Excellence in Research,' highlighting how research organisations, funders, and policy makers can foster more inclusive research environments, address structural inequalities and gender-based violence, and support under-represented groups across the research ecosystem.

The Bengaluru Roadmap and Action Plan is the outcome document of the 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, organised in Bengaluru, India, from 2-6 February 2026.

These recommendations set out minimum standards for careers in research to strengthen working conditions, research environments, and professional development across the research system. By promoting co-ordination, collaboration, and advocacy, they aim to transform existing good practices into systemic changes that improve research professionals' daily working lives across Europe and beyond.

This Position Statement presents a shared vision of aligned assessment systems and open science principles to strengthen research and innovation systems. It makes recommendations to guide a strategic alignment of key actions and interventions by RFOs and RPOs.