Research and innovation proved to be among the most powerful European policies to boost the Union’s economies and competitiveness at the global scale. With its ability to drive growth, to create up to 320,000 new highly skilled jobs by 2040, and to leverage approximately 11 euro of additional investments for each euro invested at the European level, the R&I policy is an engine of the green and digital transitions on the continent and stairways to ‘the future we want.