What are the EU-Missionen?
Concrete solutions for our biggest challenges
The EU missions are a groundbreaking step toward tackling the major challenges of our time. Whether it's climate change, fighting cancer, healthy soils, clean water, or climate-neutral cities, each mission has a clear goal: to bring about real change by 2030.
What makes the EU missions so special? They bring together research, politics, business, and civil society, and focus on cooperation and innovation. And they put you, the citizens, at the center: your ideas, observations, and commitment are crucial to developing solutions that really work.
National implementation of EU missions
For Austria, experts in five specialist groups, the Mission Action Groups, have adapted the European mission objectives to national requirements. The newly established Mission Management Unit supports the coordination of national missions and is based at the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). Together with research, science, industry, institutions, and the general public, the national goals in Mission SOIL, Mission WATER, Mission CLIMATE, Mission CITIES, and Mission Cancer are to be achieved.
Citizen science can play a key role in this!
However, the implementation of the missions is not only the responsibility of research, business, and institutions, but also of the general public. Participatory initiatives such as Citizen Science familiarize citizens with the EU missions. At the same time, they are given the opportunity to actively contribute to achieving the mission goals. By formulating research questions, reporting observations, taking measurements, evaluating data, and/or writing publications, they can support scientific projects and become part of a movement that is changing our world in a sustainable way.
