 Over the past year, our universities have done everything they could to support university communities affected by the war in Ukraine. We've welcomed the European Strategy for Universities and we've continued to emphasise the critical importance of collaboration in research and education between the EU and its closest partners, the UK and Switzerland. We've engaged rigorously in the new European Renovation Agenda, emphasised how the EIC better support universities and consistently advocated for the removal of barriers to European health research. In the European research area, we've been rigorously engaged with the research assessment reform process. We've welcomed the EU's global approach and in particular, the AU-EU Innovation Agenda agreed at the AU-EU Summit last February. Since then, together with our partner, the African Research Universities Alliance, we've begun the practical work of developing new, long-term, inclusive collaboration based on excellence and equity. Doing better science in a sustainable way must begin here and now. We thank all of our members for their rich participation throughout the year. We're grateful for the constructive discussions we've had with policymakers across all the EU institutions. And we thank other stakeholders for their continued collegiality. And so from all of us at the Guild.