1 Amendments of Maria da Graça CARVALHO related to 2011/0177(APP)
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Underlines the importance of research and innovation in accelerating the transition towards a sustainable, world- leading, knowledge-based economy; calls on the EU institutions and the Member States to agree on a specific roadmap for achieving the 3 % GDP target of investment in research; points to the massive economic commitment that this target would entail, in terms of additional expenditure totalling EUR 130 billion, annually and funded from all sources; stresses, consequently, the need to enhance, stimulate and secure the financing of research and innovation in the Union via a significant increase in expenditure, and notably in EU research and innovation funding - notably through the Horizon 2020;