In the months to come the final steps in the preparation of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme will influence the way how energy research will be supported throughout the forthcoming EU budgetary period 2021-2027.

Moreover, the European Green Deal launched by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will aim at making the clean energy transition a reality through a process that leaves no EU citizen behind, by adopting several measures of different nature, legislative and non-legislative, such as the first European Climate Law.

Summarized in the timelines below some of the main developments expected in the first half of the year that will have an influence on the energy research community.