Similar to the one signed by Mario Draghi, the Heitor Report also emphasizes the need to better align public funding provided by Horizon Europe and its successor with the needs of the European productive fabric to support the competitiveness of the European economy.
To achieve this, one of the 12 recommendations of the Report is to establish the European Council for Technology and Industrial Competitiveness (ETIC2), a body composed of prominent industry representatives to prevent "the industry from drifting away from the framework programme" at a time when both the industry and the framework programme need each other more than ever, and the number of parti
