On 4th and 5th November 2026, 95 ongoing EU-funded Horizon Europe Cluster 4 projects were selected by European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) out of 441 and invited to participate in the Feedback to Policy workshop organised by the European Commission‘s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) in Brussels. The workshop discussed how EU funding can effectively support the innovation-to-investment journey. The knowledge, experiences, success stories and best practices of the projects will help to shape the next Horizon Europe Framework Programme for 2028–34. The workshop also offered the opportunity to network with policymakers and fellow projects.

The PLANETS project was represented by Sébastien Noël (CEA-Liten), Guillaume A. Z. (IPC Centre Technique Industriel de la Plasturgie et des Composites), and Martin Himly (PLUS).

Martin gave an talk on “Training needs and offers for responsible research & innovation in industry and academia” in the ‘Cross-sectoral skills for innovation’ breakout session, which focussed on:

• depicting experiences from the NSC Community Working Group “Education, Training & Communication”, as well as the IAM-I Task Force #1 “Education & Workforce” with emerging training resources from the RESILIENCE projects and industry-inspired needs,
• showing a number of collections of these training resources,
• and finally pointing out the requirements for sustained and curated building of learning paths along trajectories, like experimental to computational or molecular to systematic and suiting the several levels of experience.

Additionally, Martin Himly moderated the breakout session on ‘Cross-sectoral skills for innovation’, together with Paolo Veronesi (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia) and the appointed expert Salvatore La Rosa (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste).