The European Comittee's delegation is discussing the Horizon 2020 framework programme for research and innovation with the Hungarian goverment, about the prioritites of research and innovation within the cohesion poitics between 2014 and 2020, also about any issues regarding the local preparation for these community initiatives. This event provided opportunity to invite the representatives of the European Comittee to talk about the Comittee's ideas in the conference organized at Semmelweis University - for the first time in Hungary. Attendees of the event can hear about the strategic programme of the local preparation and challenges of representing national interests, also about experiences and professional advices of institutes who already have successfully participated in programmes of the EU.