At the CASRI online workshop on 29 January 2026, Environmental Protection Agencies, partners and stakeholders continued the co-design of the SRIA, building on previous prioritisation work to refine selected topics through plenary discussions, assess their relevance and added value, and support alignment, convergence and preparation for the next in-person meeting in Paris.
With the release of “Selected topics for the matchmaking process for environmental and sustainability research and innovation”, CASRI marked a crucial step towards the SRIA, consolidating results from an creation process across Europe to identify R&I priorities, structure them into thematic areas and societal challenges, and support matchmaking, feedback and further alignment among stakeholders.
At the IG EPAS follow-up meeting on 9 December, EPAs reviewed progress since the Cardiff workshop, working to consolidate a joint communication for engagement with the European Commission, align internal coordination and external messaging, and identify next steps to strengthen collaboration, map capacities and support EPA contributions to R&I priorities in view of FP10.
At the CASRI online workshop on 2 December 2025, Environmental Protection Agencies, R&I programme managers and funders from across Europe advanced the co-design of the SRIA, working to translate identified topics into research and innovation questions while discussing its structure to ensure co-ownership, transnational convergence and future synergy across national and European contexts.
At the IG EPAS Meeting in Cardiff, European Environmental Protection Agencies discussed how environmental and sustainability research evidence can inform the forthcoming European Competitiveness Fund and Framework Programme 10 (FP10), strengthening the link between competitiveness and sustainability through actionable environmental knowledge.
The CASRI workshop, held on 26–27 May 2025 in Helsinki, marked a strategic milestone toward a transnational sustainability R&I agenda. Experts from 14 countries and 47 organisations aligned national insights into shared priorities, reinforcing the role of Environmental Protection Agencies as co-creators of Europe’s environmental R&I landscape.
Dr Olena Matukhno began her research work at the German Environment Agency (UBA) on 1 February 2024. Her work focuses on compliance with national climate targets in the Ukrainian iron and steel industry through decarbonisation and emissions trading measures once the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine has ended.
The German Environment Agency (UBA) is the enforcement authority for scientific projects in marine geoengineering. Marine geoengineering refers to targeted interventions in the seas to mitigate climate change, such as through methods for CO₂ removal. The legal basis for this is the German “Hohe-See-Einbringungsgesetz” (Article 8 para. 3 HSEG).
