Reforming and Enhancing the European R&I System
Similar to the free movement of goods and services, the European Commission wants to expand the European Research area in which researchers and innovators can move around in the EU without encountering legal, technological or physical borders. The primary objective is thus to stimulate the mobility of people active in R&I and diffuse the available knowledge all over Europe.
Your NCP contact for this programme
Margot Beereboom
margot.beereboom@fwo.be
+32 2 550 15 76
About this programme
During the new programme period, the European Research Area (ERA) will support a new phase in the development of the ERA and synergies with the European Higher Education Area, which may include a stronger focus on supporting the challenges identified in Pillar II, including missions and partnerships, to ensure that the strategic investments made there deliver maximum impact.
Opening the European Research Area to future challenges requires developing synergies with the European Higher Education Area in a complex landscape of universities and research organisations with a view to underpinning open science, innovative entrepreneurial practices, life-long-learning and upskilling talent and breaking down disciplinary and inter-sectoral barriers to match emerging business and societal needs.
Impacts will include better alignment of national reforms and increased programme level collaboration across Member States and Associated Countries, and will help increase the impact of both national and European investments in research and innovation. This will also support other research and innovation priorities including Open Science, citizens’ science, gender equality and other forms of diversity, improving international cooperation, ethics and integrity, and scientific input to other EU policies.
Latest news
Enhancing EU R&I Horizon Europe
New European Research Area Communication adopted by the European Commission
The Communication ‘Implementation of the European Research Area (ERA): Strengthening Europe’s Research and Innovation: The ERA’s Journey and Future Directions’ has been adopted on 22 October by the Commission. The Communication takes stock and assesses the progress made since the previous Communication ‘A new ERA for... read more
Enhancing EU R&I Horizon Europe
EU Award for Gender Equality Champions third edition open for submissions
The EU Award for Gender Equality Champions was created under Horizon Europe to recognise the results achieved by academic and research organisations in the implementation of gender equality plans (GEPs). GEPs is an eligibility criterion for all public bodies, higher education institutions and research organisations from EU Member States and associa... read more
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Work Programme & Calls
Infosheets
Infosheets contain edited content on aspects related to this programme. They are reviewed at least yearly.
Related links
Related links are easy pointers towards external information. We curate the list, but are not liable for the destinations.
- EREA Open Science in Horizon Europe
- NCP_WIDERA.NET fact sheet ERA call 2024
- Showcase of citizen science by ERC grantees and other EU-funded projects
- Citizen Science and Frontier Research: ERC Annual Event 2022
- NCP_WIDERA.NET factsheet ERA call 2023
- NCP_WIDERA.NET Policy Brief ERA Policy Agenda
- Citizen science in ERC projects
- COM Info Day WIDERA 23-24 Work Programme
- Citizen Science projects - Cordis Results Pack
- History of Changes - Widening participation and strengthening the ERA Work Programme 2021-2022
- EC DG Research & Innovation Open Science
- Citizen science factsheet
- ERA Forum for Transition
- EC DG Research & Innovation ERA
- European Research Executive Agency - HE Reforming and enhancing the European R&I system
- Recorded video and presentations 21.04.2021 - HEU open science, gender, dissemination&exploitation, do not significant harm principle
- EC DG Research and Innovation - Gender equality in R&I
- Gender equality Horizon Europe factsheet
- ERC gender projects - Cordis Results Pack
- European Open Science Cloud
Documents
Documents contain additional information related to this programme, and are similar to related links.
- Zero-tolerance code of conduct. Counteracting gender-based violence, including sexual harassment, in the EU research and innovation system
- Report on good practices from European University Alliances Projects (pilot II)
- Report on Research Assessment
- Researchers’ skills: analysis of progress made in projects funded under Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, including the European University Alliances
- Report on COVID-19 impact on gender equality in research and innovation
- Report on approaches to inclusive gender equality in research and innovation
- Study to evaluate the ERA policy framework and ERA monitoring mechanism
- Gender Dimension in Horizon Europe proposals
Testimonial
Miricle - Mine Risk Clearance for Europe
The Miricle project, ‘Mine Risk Clearance for Europe’, obtained funding under the European Defence Industrial Development programme call ‘Underwater control contributing to resilience at sea’. The main objective of the project was to achieve a European and sovereign capacity in future mine warfare and create a path for the next generation ‘made in Europe’ countermeasure solutions. In order to realise this objective, Miricle addressed various stages: studies, design, prototyping and testing. These stages inter alia included the successful testing of an XL Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a protototyped mine disposal system and multiple innovative systems to detect buried mines. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), was one of the five Belgian partners in the consortium. Within the project, VLIZ was able to forward its research on the acoustic imaging of the seabed to spatially map and visualize buried structures and objects - in this case buried mines - in the highest possible detail. VLIZ also led the work on ‘Port and Offshore Testing’, building on the expertise of the institute in the field of marine operations and technology.
