On 19 July, the European Commission published its Communication on EU Missions under Horizon Europe. The Communication provides an assessment of progress so far, as required by the Horizon Europe regulation, after their first two years of operation. It highlights the main achievements of the current five individual Missions, while also identifying challenges they have encountered, and proposing a set of actions to address these.
In its document, the Commission concludes that the EU Missions have demonstrated their potential to accelerate change and that they are on track to achieve their ambitious goals by 2030 in critical areas such as adaptation to climate change, improving the life of cancer patients, cleaning up the marine and freshwater ecosystems, making cities climate-neutral, and making soils healthy.