Commission calls for feedback on its plan to promote coordination, quality and impact of national research systems. The aim is to revitalise ERA by providing it with ‘a new vision’
The European Commission has launched a process to reboot its European Research Area (ERA) policy, inviting ideas and feedback until August 3, and promising to publish a plan for revitalising ERA, and boosting research and innovation performance in poorer regions of the EU, in September.
Progress towards ERA, a wide-ranging plan to coordinate national systems in a single market for research, has “slowed down” for a number of reasons, the commission says. These include the use of “non-binding” rules, and enlargement of the EU that “significantly diversified the R&I landscape”, creating “new needs”.
