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A European Commission Communication and accompanying Commission staff working document on a new European Research Area (ERA) were published on 30 September. The ERA was launched in 2000 with the aim to harmonise the EU’s research and innovation system, as formulated in the communication, the ERA “aims at building a common scientific and technological area for the EU. Creating a single market for research and innovation fostering free movement of researchers, scientific knowledge and innovation, and encouraging a more competitive European industry. This involves restructuring the European research landscape towards more cross-border cooperation, continent-wide competition, building of critical mass and coordination, and the improvement of national research policies and systems.”
Since then the ERA has seen achievements but progress towards several ERA objectives has been considered too slow, therefore a vision for a stronger ERA for the future is proposed. In the communication the Commission proposes a new vision which is based on four strategic objectives and 14 actions on national and EU levels to accomplish the objectives, in brief:
1) Prioritising investments and reforms
2) Improving access to excellence
3) Translating R&I results into the economy
4) Deepening the ERA
The European Research Area and Innovation Committee (ERAC) will continue to offer strategic policy advise on topics related to research and innovation within the European Research Area.
One of the implementation tools of the ERA is the Horizon Europe part “Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area”. The work programme for the period 2021-2022 is currently under discussion in a Commission Expert Group, more specifically the shadow Strategic Configuration of the Horizon Europe Programme Committee, and publication of the work programme is foreseen for early 2021.
Together with the ERA communication the Commisson adopted a Communication on the European Education Area and a new Digital Education Action Plan.
European Commission “a new ERA” press release
European Commission website: European Research Area
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