How geoscience can support the European Green Deal

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• 30 September 2020

This document outlines key aspects that the geoscience community, through its research and expertise, can support in two of the Green Deal’s main policy areas, biodiversity and pollution, and provides examples of recent scientific breakthroughs that may assist in meeting the initiative’s targets.

Shaping the EU Missions Report

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• 15 November 2019

This report summarises the key outcomes from Shaping EU Missions: bridging the gap between geoscience and policy, an event the EGU hosted in Brussels, Belgium on 17 October 2019.

Horizon 2020 Geoscience Survey Report

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• 20 September 2018

The Horizon 2020 Programme is the European Union’s research funding framework that is giving almost €80 billion to research and innovation over 7 years (until the end of 2020).

In April 2018, the EGU together with the EFG, conducted the Horizon 2020 Geoscience Survey to collect feedback on areas of the EU’s Horizon 2020 research funding programme that the geoscience community felt should be continued or extended and those which could be improved upon in the upcoming EU research framework programme, Horizon Europe. This report is based on the key findings from the survey and displays both quantitative and qualitative answers from the 271 survey responses.

Horizon 2020 Geoscience Survey Report: 2-pager

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• 20 September 2018

A condensed two-page version of the Horizon 2020 Geoscience Survey Report that highlights areas of the EU’s Horizon 2020 research funding programme that the geoscience community felt should be continued or extended and those which could be improved upon.

This document gives a brief overview of the survey, outlines the respondent demographic and provides some of the key results.

Horizon Geoscience Policy Brief

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• 1 November 2018

On Wednesday 26 September 2018, the European Geosciences Union together with the European Federation of Geologists hosted the Horizon Geoscience dinner debate. The Horizon Geoscience policy brief was constructed from both the discussions that were had during evening and the results of the Horizon 2020 Geoscience Survey.

Following the discussions during the dinner debate, this policy brief highlights the need for more effective collaboration between geoscience, policy and industry to meet Europe’s most pressing economic, social and environmental challenges and outlines the steps that can be taken to improve this collaboration.

Factsheet: What the EGU can do for policy

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• 31 August 2018

This is a one-page document with an overview of the policy-related issues that the EGU researches and areas in which EGU scientists can support policymaking.