Dr Wolfgang Burtscher, Deputy Director General at DG Research and Innovation (EC) (L) opened the event presenting an overview of the state of play of current Horizon Europe negotiations and the planned Mission in the field of Cancer. Dr Sanja Damjanovic, Minister for Science in Montenegro (R), presented the roadmap for establishing The South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies (SEEIIST), which aims developing Hadron Cancer Therapy and Biomedical Research with Protons and Heavy Ions.