Location: ARTS 56 building, 4th floor, Av. des Arts 56, Brussels, Belgium
Broadcasting option: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83298047942?pwd=aGApD5wl0bGQRUslBpA2jNUPBFOXr8.1
We had a pre-meeting to present the concept of the workshop, the Project Legacy Cards, and discuss topics for the breakout session.
Friday, 2 October 2026, 15:00-16:00 CEST.
Recordings are available. Please contact us if you are interested.
Over the past years, the European Commission has invested substantially in the development and implementation of the SSbD framework through numerous Horizon Europe projects. Collectively, these projects have generated a broad portfolio of scientific knowledge, assessment methodologies, digital tools, FAIR data infrastructures, industrial demonstrators, policy recommendations and stakeholder networks. Many first-generation SSbD projects have reached / will reach their conclusion by the end of 2027. However, an important question, already addressed in the SSbD Networking Event in March 2026, remains:
How can these capabilities continue to generate value after the projects themselves have ended?
The Workshop on SSbD Project Legacy, run as a satellite event to a Feedback-to-Policy Workshop organised by DG RTD and HaDEA, addresses this transition. Rather than focusing on individual project achievements, the workshop aims to explore how the collective legacy of Horizon Europe SSbD projects can be preserved, connected and further developed within the broader European SSbD ecosystem.
It is never too early to think about sustainability of project outcomes (and about environmental and social sustainability). However, as already mentioned above, the workshop, while having a very specific purpose, is a part of the follow-up activities and a preparation for events organised by the European Commission:
Please contact us if you want to get more information on the satellite and/or the F2P workshop.
11:00 – 11:30
Registration and first networking
11:30 – 12:30
Opening (organisers, EU representatives)
12:30 – 13:00
Setting the scene
13:00 – 14:00
Finger-food lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Breakouts sessions (What constitutes the legacy of our projects?)
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee & Tea
16:00 – 16:30
Plenary
16:30 – 17:30
Breakouts groups – How can the legacy be sustained? (Part 1)
19:00
Dinner (self-paid and self-organised)
9:00 – 10:00
Breakout groups – How can the legacy be sustained (part 2)
10:00 – 10:30
Grab a Coffee & Tea
10:30 – 11:30
Plenary – Action Agreement Session
11:30 – 12:00
Closing session
12:00 – 13:30
Grabbing lunch (self-organised) and walking over to the F2P Workshop
13:30
Begin of F2P Workshop
The Legacy Cards are an important part of the workshop preparation and will provide the basis for our discussions in Brussels. Participating projects have be invited to submit selected project results and capabilities of particular relevance to the future SSbD legacy prior to the workshop.
These cards do not represent individual key exploitable results but groups of outcomes associated to one or more of the categories
In the first set of breakouts, the cards will be used to identify areas, in which projects can collaborate to increase the impact of the SSbD project cluster and, in this way, also the individual collaborating projects.
In the second set of breakouts, collaborations with the established and emerging community initiatives will be discussed to sustain the outcomes of the projects as a common SSbD ecosystem of tools. Specific focus is put on the following points:
