24 February 2022. The Second UfM Ad-hoc Senior Official Meeting on Research and Innovation will offer the opportunity for the Co-Presidency and UfM Member States to discuss the future declaration on Research and Innovation for the Ministerial on Research and Innovation, the first under the UfM framework. The UfM meeting of Senior Officials on 21 October 2021 endorsed the UfM Regional Platform in Research and Innovation (R&I) building on the Declaration of the 2017 Ministerial Conference on “Strengthening Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation through Research and Innovation” (Valletta).