On 12 May, the widerAdvance Facility was presented at the REMORA Symposium in Madeira by our Maltese partner Ian Gauci Borda (Xjenza Malta)
The event forms part of the second REMORA Symposium, held in Madeira from 12 to 14 May 2026, and brings together researchers, policy-makers and innovation actors from across Europe and beyond to strengthen collaboration in marine research and innovation. A key focus of the symposium is the role of Europe’s Outermost Regions as strategic actors in Horizon Europe.
The presentation took place during the plenary session dedicated to Outermost Regions as active Horizon Europe actors, which focused on sharing experience and success stories from Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. In that context, the widerAdvance Facility was showcased as a project supporting organisations in Widening countries and Outermost Regions in improving the dissemination, exploitation and uptake of research results.
The REMORA Symposium is designed not only as a dissemination event, but also as a platform for building collaboration, strengthening participation in Horizon Europe and reinforcing the international positioning of the participating institutions and regions. That made it a particularly fitting space to present the widerAdvance Facility and its mission.
For widerAdvance, being part of this discussion matters. The challenges addressed at the symposium — visibility, collaboration, strategic positioning and turning research into impact — are closely connected to the goals of our project. We were therefore very pleased to see widerAdvance included in this exchange and presented alongside other examples of engagement in the European research and innovation landscape.
