IMAGINE project manager, professor Tomislav Capuder, along with his team member professor Hrvoje Pandzic, participated in the sixth edition of the SpliTech 2021 international conference. During the conference, members of our team participated as panelists of the PANTERA and SUPERRA projects led by the European Energy Research Alliance. They discussed the presence of Croatian research institutions in projects from the EU program and how this participation should be increased and strengthened by Croatian institutions in order for them to be more present as coordinators and partners in projects under the upcoming Horizon Europe program.