"SAILING TOWARDS NEW HORIZONS"

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In 2014 a project was born in the European Commission: Horizon 2020. This is the largest research and innovation program ever proposed, as it proposes to be a revolution for the society in which we live, promising to bring the research closer to the market and multiply the discoveries. The three main areas under which all Horizon 2020 projects are located are: industrial leadership, scientific excellence and addressing the many social challenges that surround us.

Today, Europe is moving towards the 2020 horizon, but we wanted to go a step further and organise this event in which participants can, on the one hand take stock of the objectives and achievements achieved in the framework of Horizon 2020; and, on the other hand, we also want to organise an event where we can discuss the new horizon to which we are heading after Horizon 2020. What are the EU's goals? Where should we go? Are we getting what we set out to do?

We wanted to make a parallelism with the sea for two reasons. The first of them may seem obvious and is that one of the things that distinguishes this session from others is, precisely, its geographical location, bathed by the Mediterranean. The second reason arises from the interest of motivating the young to continue sailing forward.

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Hemos querido hacer un paralelismo con el mar por dos razones. La primera de ellas puede parecer obvia  y es que una de las cosas que distingue esta sesión de otras es, precisamente, su situación geográfica, bañada por el mediterráneo. La segunda razón nace del interés de motivar a los jóvenes de seguir navegando hacia adelante, que la Unión Europea no se quede con la impresión de que cuando se finalice el proyecto Horizon 2020 nos hemos quedado sin meta. En la misma línea, hemos querido ampliar nuestro propio horizonte escogiendo Valencia como lugar idóneo para celebrar este evento, creemos que es una ciudad que tienen mucho que dar y que es hora de que lo demostremos.Por todo esto, los temas de los distintos comités que formarán la sesión estarán relacionados con esta temática. 
 

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