Digest on ''matching research strenghts with societal challenges- sea-eu alliance''

Matching research strengths of the SEA-EU alliance with societal challenges paves the road for the common long-term research agenda.This document has the ambitions to helps prioritizing the research topics with the strongest potential for synergies in regards to the research strengths observed at the scale of SEA-EU and the current European societal needs. To fulfil this task, the results of a previousanalysis on SEA-EU research strengths, the 2030 agenda forsustainable development and the data from the Horizon Europe programme were matched. The matching indicates that the SEA-EU alliance has the capacities to target environmental-related challenges, topics related to the common root (embedded in coastal ecosystems) and beyond.