This year the German National Contact Point Life Sciences hosted its annual National Symposium “From  Horizon to Horizon” on Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe in Cologne. Addressing a wide cross-section of research stakeholders, the event took place on the 21^st November 2018, at KOMED in Cologne.

Representatives of the European Commission of DG Research and Innovation (RTD) and of DG Communications Networks, Content & Technologypresented (CNECT) presented the upcoming calls in the area of health, bioeconomy and biotechnology. In the panel discussion, the most important policies, objectives and ideas underlying the European programme were discussed by the European Commission and other experts and successful applicants.

Throughout the event the participants also had many opportunities for partnering, networking and for the exchange of ideas.

The presentations from the event are available for download here:

• The next EU R&I Programme - Horizon Europe (Cornelius Schmaltz - DG RTD & Annette Schneegans - DG AGRI)
• Partnerships in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe (Sabine Steiner-Lange - NCP)
• European Joint Programme (EJP) - EJP One Health (Katja Leicht - German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment)
• EJP on Rare Diseases (Ralph Schuster - DLR Project Management Agency)
• Health Calls WP 2019 from DG RTD (Cornelius Schmaltz - DG RTD)
• Health Calls WP 2019 from DG CNECT (Christoph Klein - DG CNECT)
• Bioeconomy Calls WP 2019 from DG AGRI (Annette Schneegans - DG AGRI)
• Open Science (Laura Griestop - BIOCOM)
• OpenData, OpenScience (Björn Usadel - RWTH Aachen)
• Information from the thematic tables