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ERA-Fabric Map

First Edition

Authors:

Karel HAEGEMAN, Elisabetta MARINELLI,

Susana ELENA PEREZ, Gérard CARAT,

Alexander DEGELSEGGER, Gorazd WEISS and

Philine WARNKE

2012

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Executive summary 4

Acknowledgements 5

1. Introduction 6

2. The ERA in a wider perspective 72.1 How are responsibilities shared between the EU and its Member States? 7

2.2 European institutions, bodies and discussion fora involved in research policy in Europe 8

3. The ERA and Europe 2020 Strategy 113.1 Key policy documents 11

3.2 ERA dimensions and Europe 2020 12

Dimension 1. People: Realising a single labour market for researchers 13

Dimension 2. Infrastructure: World-class research infrastructures (RIs) 15

Dimension 3. Organisations: Excellent research institutions 19

Dimension 4. Funding: Well-coordinated research programmes and priorities 21

Dimension 5. Knowledge circulation: Effective knowledge sharing 25

Dimension 6. Global cooperation: A wide opening of the European Research Area to the world 28

4. Main current stakeholders and their roles 32

5. Conclusions 37

6. Bibliography 38

Annex I. Europe 2020 Flagship commitments and ERA dimensions 41

Annex II. Main stakeholders involved in a selected number of ERA instruments 59

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List of Tables

Figure 1. Division of responsibilities between the European Union and its Member States 7

Figure 2. Main European institutions, bodies and discussion fora for exchange among policy-makers involved in European research policy-making 10

Figure 3. ERA-Timeline 11

Figure 4. The European Research Area and its links with the 7 flagships of Europe 2020 13

Figure 5. Deployment and planning of Research Infrastructures for EU MS and AC 17

Table 1: Commitments related to Dimension 1 14






Table 7. Main stakeholders actively involved in the ERA 32

Table 8. Classification of the main stakeholders by category and scope of performance 34

Table 9. Stakeholders actively involved in the ERA instruments and their main roles 35

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This ERA fabric map gives a snapshot of the ERA today. It looks at the division of responsibilities

between EU and Member States, and at institutions and bodies involved in the European research system.

Starting from the six ERA dimensions described in the ERA Green Paper, the report then looks where we

are today, and which direction the future is taking, given the policy context of Europe 2020. Involvement

of stakeholders in further building the ERA is looked at by analysing their involvement in a number of

existing ERA instruments, using a taxonomy of stakeholder roles and functions. The report has been written

as part of the FP7 project Forward Visions on the European Research Area (VERA). This first edition will be

updated twice as part of the VERA project.

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This report is the result of a collaboration between JRC-IPTS (Karel Haegeman, Elisabetta Marinelli,

Susana Elena Pérez and Gérard Carat), ZSI (Alexander Degelsegger and Gorazd Weiss) and Fraunhofer

ISI (Philine Warnke). The authors of this report would like to thank Mark Boden, Ales Gnamus, Mariana

Chioncel, Luisa Henriques and Nicholas Harrap from JRC-IPTS for their comments and contributions.

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This report constitutes a formal deliverable,

namely D6.1 “Outline of ERA elements and

stakeholders”, of Work Package 6 “Stakeholder

Engagement and Communication Strategy” of the

VERA Project (Forward Visions on the European

Research Area).

The main objectives of this project are

both to provide relevant strategic knowledge

for the governance and priority-setting of

the research, technology, development and

innovation (RTDI) system in Europe, and to set

up a strategic conversation across the European

Research Area (ERA).

In line with them, this report aims to provide

the first edition of the map of ERA as it is today,

taking into account its history and the current

policy context. The proposed ERA fabric map

aims to provide a point of reference for the

whole implementation of the VERA project by

giving a snapshot of the ERA today in support

of developing alternative future scenarios for its

evolution and by mapping current involvement of

stakeholders in ERA. This ERA fabric map will be

updated in Deliverable 6.4 and Deliverable 6.5

in months 20 and 28 of the Project respectively.

The report is structured as follows. In

section 2 the ERA is looked at from a wider

perspective. Section 3 explores the state of the

art of ERA, building on the ERA dimensions

from the ERA Green Paper, and putting them

in the context of Europe 2020. Section 4 looks

at current involvement of stakeholders in a

selected number of ERA instruments and the

roles they take. Main findings are summarised in

a concluding section.

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2.1 How are responsibilities shared between the EU and its Member States?

When looking at the European RTDI system,

not only research, technology and innovation

policies are important. A wide set of other

policies interact with this system too, many of

which lie not in the (sole) responsibility of the

European Union. In general, the responsibilities

for policy-making within the European Union can

be divided into three categories, as illustrated in

figure 1 below. In a limited number of areas, such

as the customs union, the European Union alone

is responsible for policy-making. For a second

set of areas, such as research, technological

development and space, the European Union

and its Member States share responsibilities.

Finally, for areas such as education, the Member

States remain responsible. In those areas, the

European Union can only play a supporting or

co-ordinating role.

From this overview it becomes clear that

responsibilities for the RTDI system are shared ones.

Many related policies, such as economic and social

cohesion, energy, transport, etc are also shared ones.

In addition some key responsibilities connected

to research and innovation, such as education, lie

with Member States only. This means that policies

shaping European research and innovation are,

given the current institutional context, bound to be

based on collaboration and voluntary engagement

of the Member States and its actors.

Figure 1. Division of responsibilities between the European Union and its Member States

Source: Based on Fontaine (2010)

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European policy making in the field of

research policy (the part that is developed by the

European institutions) is adopted under the co-

decision procedure: the Council of the European

Union (Council of Ministers) and the European

Parliament amend, adopt or reject legislation

proposed by the Commission. The negotiation

process is long and complex and characterised by

considerable informal exchange of views. For the

European Parliament, the “Industry, Research and

Energy” committee (ITRE) does the preparatory

work. For the Council, work is prepared by the

Council’s Research Working Party, the Permanent

Representative’s Committee (Coreper) and

the Competitiveness Council. Finally, also the

European Economic and Social Committee are

involved (Source: ERAWATCH, 2012)1.

Regarding the co-ordination activities on

the Member State level, the open method of

coordination was introduced by Lisbon European

Council (2000) as a “means of spreading best

practise and achieving greater convergence

towards the main EU goals”. The method

includes:

• Fixing guidelines and timetables for

achieving short, medium and long-term

goals;

• Establishing quantitative and qualitative

indicators and benchmarks, tailored to the

needs of Member States and sectors involved,

as a means of comparing best practices;

• Translating European guidelines into national

and regional policies, by setting specific

measures and targets; and

1 For a detailed description of the decision making process in the field of research policy, see ERAWATCH: http://erawatch.jrc.ec.europa.eu/.

• Periodic monitoring of the progress achieved

in order to put in place mutual learning

processes between Member States.

The most important official advisory bodies

and fora for discussion among policy-makers

involved in research policies are the following2:

• The European Research Area Committee

(ERAC), before CREST, is the advisory body

assisting the Council of the European Union

and the European Commission in the field

of research and technological development.

A number of candidate and associated

countries participate as observers in ERAC3.

ERAC has several dedicated configurations.

o The High Level Group for Joint

Programming (GPC4) is a dedicated

configuration of ERAC responsible for

identifying themes for joint programming.

Members are senior officials from

the European Member States and the

European Commission. Associated

countries can participate in the GPC.

o The Strategic Forum for International

Cooperation (SFIC) is a dedicated

configuration of ERAC. Its objective

is to facilitate the development,

implementation and monitoring of ERA’s

international dimension by information

sharing and joint priority identification.

Associated countries are involved as

observers. Countries selected for the

SFIC pilot initiatives (India, US, China)

are invited to dedicated discussions.

o The Knowledge Transfer Group is a

working group of ERAC established to

2 Source: ERAWATCH3 Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Faroe Islands,

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Moldavia, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland and Turkey.

4 GPC=Groupe de haut niveau pour la Programmation Conjointe

http://erawatch.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

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take up and support the implementation

of the EC’s Recommendation on the

management of intellectual property in

knowledge transfer activities and Code

of Practice for universities and other

public research organisations5

• The Steering Group on Human Resources

and Mobility (SGHRM) has been active

since 2002 and has been recognised by

the Council in 2008 to be the appropriate

forum for promoting and monitoring the

implementation of the European Partnership

for Researchers.

• The European Research Advisory Board

(ERAB), previously EURAB, is a high-level,

independent, advisory committee created

by the Commission to provide advice on the

design and implementation of EU research

policy, and consists of 45 top experts from

EU countries and beyond.

• The European Strategy Forum on Research

Infrastructures (ESFRI) aims to support a

coherent and strategy-led approach to policy-

making on research infrastructures in Europe,

and to facilitate multilateral initiatives leading

to the better use and development of research

infrastructures, at EU and international level.

Associate country research ministry delegates

participate as well.

• The Science and Technology Options

Assessment (STOA) unit advises the European

Parliament on research related issues.

• In support of its policy formulation remit,

the Commission often sets up expert groups

which focus on particular European research

policy challenges and/or issues such as the

Lisbon expert group or the Knowledge for

Growth expert group.

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• On specific thematic themes relating

to research policy there are numerous

advisory councils and groups that provide a

sounding board for policy and programme

development. These include advisory

councils which addresses particular themes

or sectors (ACARE and ERTRAC), advisory

groups for the 7th Framework Programme

(FP7) such as ISTAG and standing committees

on thematic issues such as SCAR.

• There are also permanent expert groups on

women in science and ethics.

• As regards ERA’s interaction with science

policy-making actors from third countries,

two components can be identified:

o In an outgoing perspective, the

European Commission and European

Member States are participating in

regular high-level dialogue meetings

e.g. with the Western Balkan countries

(in the Steering Platform on Research

for the Western Balkan Countries) or

Southeast Asia (in the ASEAN-EU S&T

Dialogue Meetings)

o With regard to bi-lateral S&T agreements

of the European Commission with

currently 19 countries, there are

regular Joint Steering and Cooperation

Committee meetings.

• When understanding ERA as increasingly

incorporating aspects of innovation, actors

like EUREKA have to be taken into account

when thinking about ERA governance.

Founded in 1985 as an intergovernmental

initiative6, EUREKA is an RTD funding and

coordination organisation bringing together

39 member countries and the European

6 The political guidance for EUREKA is coming from regular Ministerial Conferences bringing together member countries science and research ministers and the responsible European Commissioner.

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to promote international, market-oriented

research and innovation. Coordination

between the EU and EUREKA is considered

important for ERA.

Apart from these institutions, bodies and

fora for discussion among policy-makers, there is

also a wide set of other European actors linked

to ERA policy-making. Examples are Science

Europe (grouping 49 European Research Funding

Organisations (RFO) and Research Performing

Organisations (RPO)), the European University

Association (EUA), the European Federation of

National Academies Sciences and Humanities

(ALLEA), associations of research performing

private sector actors, and associations at

subnational governance level. Involvement of

stakeholders in ERA is looked at in more detail in

section 4.

The main European institutions, bodies and

discussion fora involved in European research

policy are presented in figure 2.

Figure 2. Main European institutions, bodies and discussion fora for exchange among policy-makers involved in European research policy-making

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3.1 Key policy documents

Research in Europe has a long history. Several

universities in Europe even date back to the Middle

Ages. The ERA as a concept is very recent, and was

first launched at the Lisbon European Council in

March 2000. The Barcelona European Council set a

3% of GDP target for EU R&D investment intensity.

The ERA concept was given new impetus in 2007

with the European Commission’s Green Paper on

ERA. In 2008, the Council set in motion the Ljubljana

Process to improve the political governance of ERA

and adopted a shared ERA 2020 vision. Furthermore,

concrete progress has been made via a series of new

partnership initiatives proposed by the Commission

in 2008 whereby Member States collaborated to

further the ERA in five key areas, namely: (a) working

conditions and mobility of researchers; (b) the joint

design and operation of research programmes;

(c) the creation of world-class European research

infrastructures; (d) the transfer of knowledge and

cooperation between public research and industry

and (e) international cooperation in science and

technology. In 2009, the Lisbon Treaty made the

realisation of the ERA an explicit EU objective. Since

2010, seven flagship initiatives – under the Europe

2020 strategy – have been launched, and in 2011, the

European Council of February 2011 stated that the

ERA must be completed by 2014. To further support

the ERA, the European Commission (EC) has recently

announced the launch of ERA Pacts between the EC

itself and major research stakeholders. Such pacts, in

the words of the Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn,

´will contain a clear roadmap, based on common

objectives, with precise, realistic deliverables for

research actors and for the Commission, and clear

deadlines for achieving them` (Geoghegan-Quinn,

2012).

Figure 3. ERA-Timeline7

7 For more information about the key milestones of the ERA visit: http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/index_en.htm

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In this ERA fabric map, we start from the 6

pillars of ERA as established in the ERA Green

Paper, and look at how those pillars are given

new impetus with the Europe 2020 strategy.

3.2 ERA dimensions and Europe 2020

The ERA Green Paper (European

Commission, 2007) establishes the following 6

dimensions for the ERA:

1. People: An adequate flow of competent

researchers

2. Infrastructure: World-class research

infrastructures

3. Organisations: Excellent research institutions

4. Funding: Well-coordinated research

programmes and priorities

5. Knowledge circulation: Effective knowledge

sharing

6. Global cooperation: A wide opening of the

European Research Area to the world

In addition, three important concerns cut

across all dimensions of the ERA:

• European research policy should be deeply

rooted in European society.

• The right balance should be found between

competition and cooperation.

• Full benefit should be derived from Europe’s

diversity which has been enriched with

recent EU enlargements.

The ERA Green Paper is an EC document,

but obviously, ERA countries play a crucial

role in realising the ERA. Chioncel and Cuntz

(2012) have analysed the impact of ERA on

policy developments in Member States, based

on information provided by the ERAWATCH

country correspondents in the ERAWATCH

Country Reports 2010 (ERAWATCH, 2012)

and the country questionnaire. They identify 2

specific ERA dimensions that are seemingly more

important (in particular the dimensions 1 and

2 - People and Infrastructures) than others from

national perspectives of MS8. They also conclude

that ERA progress and integration takes place at

different speed. This seems particularly relevant

for the (primarily national driven) dimensions

3 and 4 (Organisations and Funding). Thirdly,

they conclude that dimension 5 (Knowledge

circulation) is an area of potential policy failure

for countries with lower innovation performance,

both, on EU and national levels. By tapping

further into these policy fields as rent-seeking EU

funds, MS may face increased systemic failure

due to limited absorptive capacities of their

businesses and continue developing science base

on national levels.

• Since 2007, the ERA has obviously evolved.

The most recent policy changes with

regard to the ERA and its dimensions relate

to the Europe 2020 strategy (European

Commission, 2010), which has proposed the

launch of 7 flagship initiatives:Innovation

Union (European Commission, 2010a)

• Youth on the Move (European Commission,

2010b)

• Digital Agenda (European Commission,

2010c)

• New Skills for New Jobs (European

Commission, 2008)

• Industrial Policy (European Commission,

2010d)

8 These dimensions also largely lend themselves to financial incentives on EU levels and have already a certain history of financial support, in particular the one on infrastructures, i.e. this likely leading into path-dependency and overweighting/importance of specific ERA dimensions.

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• A resource-efficient Europe (European

Commission, 2011)

• European Platform against Poverty and Social

Exclusion (European Commission, 2010e)

This chapter of the report departs from the

6 ERA dimensions as defined in the ERA Green

Paper, and analyses how they relate to the new

policy context of Europe 2020. Figure 4 illustrates

this by putting ERA and its dimensions in the

wider context of the 7 flagship initiatives. The

tables in Annex I give a more detailed analysis

of the commitments and action areas of each

flagship initiative, and how they impact on the

ERA dimensions. In the centre of figure 4 also

some policies (´other ERA policies`) relevant to

Europe 2020 are mentioned that may also impact

on ERA, but that do not relate to a specific ERA

dimension.

Below each dimension is looked at in more

detail. For each dimension it is explained what

it is about, where we are now, and where we

are going, taking into account recent policy

developments.

Dimension 1. People: Realising a single labour

market for researchers

What is it about?

The ERA Green Paper (European Commission,

2007) states that researchers should be stimulated

by a single labour market with attractive working

conditions for both men and women, involving

notably the absence of financial or administrative

obstacles to trans-national mobility. There should

be full opening of academic research positions

and national research programmes across

Europe, with a strong drive to recruit researchers

internationally, and easy movement between

Figure 4. The European Research Area and its links with the 7 flagships of Europe 2020

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disciplines and between the public and private

sectors – such mobility becoming a standard

feature of a successful research career.

Where are we now?

The ERA Green Paper identified several barriers

to the European single market for researchers. These

include the limited extent and lack of harmonised

rules and conditions for open recruitment in public

research institutions, the lack of recognition in

the labour market law of the research profession

and its specificities, its poor working conditions

and the existence of barriers to easily transferable

pension funds. Furthermore, mobility across sectors

or borders is often penalised in terms of career

advancement and consolidation and, in general, the

private sector is not sufficiently active in research.

In this context, procedures for facilitating access

to the EU for third country researchers are still

cumbersome and lengthy. Doctoral education in EU

is fragmented and lacks critical size at the expense

of excellence and attractiveness These barriers

are further reinforced by some demographic and

social trends: on the one hand, women are under

represented in top scientific positions; young PhDs

emigrate from Europe to the US; many of the old

researchers close to retirement will not be replaced

resulting in loss of competences. These barriers

have not been substantially overcome in the recent

years and the Innovation Union flagship initiative

has identified further obstacles. For instance, it has

pointed out that the research profession suffers from

a lack of a common understanding of researchers’

competences, which hinders the match of demand

and supply and thus the effective allocation of

resources.

Where are we going?

The commitments or action areas which relate

to this dimension are identified (see table below).

Table 1: Commitments related to Dimension 1

Commitments DescriptionInnovation Union

1Member States strategies for researchers’ training and employment conditions

“By the end of 2011, Member States should have strategies in place to train enough researchers to meet their national R&D targets and to promote attractive employment conditions in public research institutions. Gender and dual career considerations should be fully taken into account in these strategies.“

2BKnowledge Alliances and Skills for Innovation

“The Commission will also support business-academia collaborations through the creation of “Knowledge Alliances” between education and business to develop new curricula addressing innovation skills gaps (see also commitment 3 on e-skills). They will help universities to modernise towards inter-disciplinarity, entrepreneurship and stronger business partnerships.”

3 E-Skills

“In 2011, the Commission will propose an integrated framework for the development and promotion of e-skills for innovation and competitiveness, based on partnerships with stakeholders. This will be based on supply and demand, pan-European guidelines for new curricula, quality labels for industry-based training and awareness-raising activities.”

4European Research Area Framework

“In 2012, the Commission will propose a European Research Area framework and supporting measures to remove obstacles to mobility and cross-border co-operation, aiming for them to be in force by end 2014. They will notably seek to ensure through a common approach: quality of doctoral training, attractive employment conditions and gender balance in research careers; mobility of researchers across countries and sectors, including through open recruitment in public research institutions and comparable research career structures and by facilitating the creation of European supplementary pension funds; cross-border operation of research performing organisations, funding agencies and foundations, including by ensuring simplicity and mutual coherence of funding rules and procedures, building on the work of stakeholders, funding agencies and their representative organisations; dissemination, transfer and use of research results, including through open access to publications and data from publicly funded research;”

4. 1 Comparable Research Career Structures (European Framework for Research Careers)4.2 ERA Framework- Quality of Doctoral Training 4. 3Creation of Pan-European Pension Funds for Researchers

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9European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)

By mid-2011, the EIT should set out a Strategic Innovation Agenda to expand its activities as a showcase for Innovation in Europe. This should map out its long term development within the Innovation Union, including the creation of new KICs, close links with the private sector and a stronger role in entrepreneurship. It should also build on the EIT Foundation being set up in 2010 and on the introduction in 2011 of the “EIT degree” as an internationally recognised label of excellence.

30Retaining and Attracting International Talent

“By 2012, the European Union and its Member States should put into place integrated policies to ensure that the best academics, researchers and innovators reside and work in Europe and to attract a sufficient number of highly skilled third country nationals to stay in Europe.”

Youth on the move

Developing modern education and training systems to deliver key competences and excellence

Raise the attractiveness, provision and quality of Vocational Education and Training (VET) Propose a quality framework for traineeships Propose a draft Council Recommendation on the promotion and validation of non-formal and informal learning (2011)

Promoting the attractiveness of higher education for the knowledge economy

Support the reform and modernisation of higher education, by presenting a Communication (2011)

Supporting a strong development of transnational learning and employment mobility for young people - promoting learning mobility

Set up a dedicated Youth on the Move website for information on EU learning and mobility opportunities (2010) Propose a draft Council Recommendation on promoting the learning mobility of young people (2010) Develop a Youth on the Move card to facilitate mobility for all young people Publish guidance on the European Court of Justice rulings on the rights of mobile students (2010) (on issues such as access, recognition and portability of grants) Propose a European Skills Passport (2011)

Supporting a strong development of transnational learning and employment mobility for young people - promoting employment mobility

Develop a new initiative: ‘Your first EURES job’ Create in 2010 a ‘European Vacancy Monitor’ Monitor the application of the EU legislation on freedom of workers and identify, in 2010, areas for action to promote youth mobility with Member States

Exploiting the full potential of EU funding programmes

Undertake a review of all relevant EU programmes fostering learning mobility and education, including via an open consultation of stakeholders, to be launched in September 2010, and make proposals in 2011 for the new Financial Framework.Examine the feasibility for the creation of an EU-level student loan facility, in cooperation with the EIB Group and other financial institutions.

New skills for new jobsAddressing mismatches All actions (see annex I)

Mobilising Community instruments All actions (see annex I)

Dimension 2. Infrastructure: World-class

research infrastructures (RIs)

What is it about?

Regarding Research Infrastructures (RIs), the

ERA Green Paper (European Commission, 2007)

specified the following issues to be addressed:

• How could the EU effectively decide on pan-

European RIs and their funding, involving

the EC, possible synergies with EU cohesion

policy instruments, Member States, Industry,

the European Investment Bank and other

financial institutions?

• European legal framework: What other

policy and legal changes are necessary to

encourage the private sector to invest more

in research infrastructure?

• Is there a need to define common and

transparent principles for the management

of, and access to, infrastructures of European

interest?

• How can the longer-term continuous

improvement of RIs be ensured, e.g. through

S&T programmes associated with them and

European electronic infrastructures?

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• Should a global forum on RI be created,

involving third countries and international

organisations, where Europeans could speak

with one voice (as they did in the ITER

project on nuclear fusion research)?

Where are we now?

Progress has been made through ESFRI9, who

identified 50 new RIs (or major upgrades of existing

ones) to be developed until the 2020 horizon

timeframe10. Their costs will require pooling of

resources from several MS, associated countries

and also third countries for some of them.

Challenges linked to the realisation of

these projects include (Source: I³S platform,

commitment 5):

1. The high total investment costs (~20 B€

+operational costs of over 2 bn€ per year)

and the large number of projects (~50) that

are being discussed at the same time;

2. The difficulty of countries to overcome a

purely national perspective in their decision

to participate and invest and make long term

commitment to European projects;

3. The complexity of realising the projects in

partnerships between several countries and

with variable geometry;

4. The work still to be completed to bring the

projects to the technical, organisational,

legal and financial maturity level where

decisions on their funding can be taken;

5. The difficulty of gathering sufficient

European funding to co-finance the projects

and complement national contributions.

9 The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (RIs) was created in 2002 at the behest of the European Council. It is an advisory body, seeking to identify RIs of pan-European relevance and to promote the development of RIs at EU and international level.

10 The Competitiveness Council of 25-25 November 2004 concluded that “this roadmap should describe the scientific needs for Research Infrastructures for the next 10-20 years”

The current deployment or planning of RIs

implemented by Members States and Associated

countries is shown in Figure 5.

Considering the current implementation and

the objectives, a number of remarks can be made.

Keeping up the momentum of the first four

years (2006-2010) over the next five years should

allow the realisation of about 60% of the ESFRI

projects by 2015.

At EU level this means (Source: I³S platform,

commitment 5):

1. To continue mobilising the EU resources

(FP7, Structural Funds, RSFF11)

2. To continue catalysing and supporting the

national efforts for the allocation of sufficient

resources

3. To assess the effectiveness of the existing

actions in view of their reinforcement in the

next FP.

Through FP7, the EU provides mainly

catalytic support to an initial Preparatory Phase

(~220 M€) to address legal, governance, financial

and technical issues in order to launch the

projects. The EU contracts provide a framework

allowing all necessary stakeholders to cooperate.

FP7 funds to support to the actual Construction

Phase is much more limited (90 M€). Additional

financial resources (200 M€) are devoted to the

RSFF to make available loans from the European

Investment Bank (EIB). In view of the overall

financial needs (~ 20 B€), the contribution of

11 RSFF (Risk Sharing Financial Facility) was jointly developed by the European Commission and the EIB and launched in mid-2007. It is a debt facility providing loan finance to private and public entities for the support of additional investments in RDI in the order of EUR 10 bn for the period 2007-2013. FP7 contribution to the RSFF amounts to a maximum of EUR 1 billon for the period 2007-2013 and has to be matched by an equivalent amount from the EIB.

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FP7 of ~ 500 M€ is rather limited (Source: I³S

platform, commitment 5).

The EU Structural Funds can provide

a substantial support to some research

infrastructures. Under the current Financial

Perspectives from 2007 to 2013, 10 B€ are

earmarked for “R&TD infrastructure and centers

of competence”. This support is particularly

important for the 12 new MS. The projects need

to meet requirements of scientific excellence and

impact on the regional economy. For some ESFRI

projects, industrial partners have already been

identified and letters of interest from companies

received, demonstrating the potential impact

on the economy (partnership with innovative

industries, large companies, SMEs and start-ups;

links with innovative incubators for the creation

of spin-offs) (Source: I³S platform, commitment

5). After 2013, as part of Horizon 2020, Research

Infrastructures (including e-infrastructures) will

be funded under the priority ‘Excellent Science’

(European Commission, 2011g).

Among the other coordination / legal

instruments which have been set up to address

the remaining aspects mentioned in the Green

Paper, the main ones are (Report of the Expert

Group on Research Infrastructures (2010):

• The Community legal framework for a

European Research Infrastructure Consortium

(ERIC) entered into force in 2009. This is an

article 187 legal form designed to facilitate

the joint establishment and operation of

research infrastructures of (pan-) European

interest. This legal status would allow such

RIs to benefit from specific taxation and

employment rules. An unresolved issue is

that the current ERIC regulation is related

to Public-Public Partnership. A new legal

framework at Community level allowing

the creation of Public-Private Partnership to

serve industrial research in the long term is

therefore needed.

• The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group

(e-IRG) recom mends best practices for the

pan-European electronic infrastructure

efforts (to support the creation of a political,

technological and administrative framework

for a shared use of e-resources). It consists

of official government delegates from

all the EU countries and produces white

Figure 5. Deployment and planning of Research Infrastructures for EU MS and AC

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papers, roadmaps & recommendations. The

themes addressed are: (i) e-infrastructures

in FP7 (ii) a policy for resource sharing (iii)

a registry/repository for European resources

(iv) coordination of new national and

EU funding programs (v) better links and

synergies between Europe and other regions

engaged in similar activities.

Where are we going?




Commitments Description

Innovation Union

4 European Research Area Framework

In 2012, the Commission will propose a European Research Area framework and supporting measures to remove obstacles to mobility and cross-border co-operation, aiming for them to be in force by end 2014.

5European Research Infrastructures

By 2015, Member States together with the Commission should have completed or launched the construction of 60% of the priority European research infrastructures currently identified by the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). The potential for innovation of these (and ICT and other) infrastructures should be increased. The Member States are invited to review their Operational Programmes to facilitate the use of cohesion policy money for this purpose

18 Eco-InnovationBy early 2011 the Commission will present an eco-innovation action plan building on the Innovation Union and focusing on the specific bottlenecks, challenges and opportunities for achieving environmental objectives through innovation

32Towards Global Research Infrastructures

The European Union should step up its cooperation on the roll-out of the global research infrastructures. By 2012, agreement should be reached with international partners on the development of research infrastructures which owing to cost and/or complexity, can only be developed on a global scale.

Digital Agenda

Action Area Research and InnovationEC action: Ensure sufficient financial support to joint ICT research infrastructures and innovation clusters, develop further eInfrastructures and establish an EU strategy for cloud computing notably for government and science.

A resource-efficient Europe

Long-term framework

Outline what the EU needs to do to create a low-carbon economy in 2050, cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80-95%, as part of global efforts to fight climate change, while improving energy security and promoting sustainable growth and jobs.Analyse how the EU can create an energy system by 2050 which is low-carbon, resource-efficient, secure and competitive. This should provide the necessary certainty for investors, researchers, policy makers and regulators.Present a vision for a low-carbon, resource-efficient, secure and competitive transport system by 2050 that removes all obstacles to the internal market for transport, promotes clean technologies and modernises transport networks.

Medium-term measures

Proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy, the Common Fisheries Policy, Cohesion Policy, energy infrastructure and trans-European networks for transport in the context of the next EU budget to align these areas with the requirements of a resource-efficient, low-carbon economy.

Industrial policy

Innovative industry

Pooling scarce resources to help to achieve critical mass in bringing innovation to the market; and by increasing cooperation in innovation to create large scale demonstration projects and pilot test facilities, for example using the model of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI).

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institutions

What is it about?

Another of the six dimensions necessary

to make the European Research Area a reality

is related to research organisations. Research

institutions are at the core of the production

process of research and innovation and should

be able to attract human capital and financial

resources from all over the word. To do that,

as stated in the ERA Green paper (European

Commission, 2007), research institutions across

Europe should be able to cooperate while

competing, be embedded in the social and

economic life, and interact with the business

community in sustainable public-private

partnerships.

Moreover, networking of existing centres

of excellence and the creation of virtual

centres is crucial to avoid fragmentation. “Their

reach should be amplified through ‘virtual

research communities’ created by pooling and

integrating activities and resources from different

locations in Europe and beyond, using powerful

computing and communication tools” (European

Commission, 2007).

Where are we now?

With regard to research organisations in

Europe, concrete actions have been initiated at

EU level on new ways of working together, new

instruments and new bodies to better integrate

the innovation cycle and bring together the key

stakeholders:

• The Marie Curie Industry-Academia

Partnerships and Pathways12, aiming

explicitly at creating bridges between the

academic world and enterprises. Under this

programme, 50 % of businesses participating

in the projects are SMEs (European

Commission, 2011c).

12 http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/industry-academia_en.html

• In September 2011, the Commission

presented a reform strategy for modernising

higher education, including through

increasing graduate numbers; improving

teaching quality and adapting curricula

and delivery of education programmes to

the changing needs of the wider economy;

training more researchers; and improving

the links between research, education and

innovation (European Commission, 2011c).

• With the objective of bringing together

business and academia to address innovation

skills gaps, the Commission launched

in 2011 the Pilot Project for Knowledge

Alliances13. Out of 94 proposals received

the three projects that were selected aim

at designing new curricula and courses,

developing innovative ways of delivering

education and knowledge, and will help

universities to modernise by moving towards

inter-disciplinarity, entrepreneurship and

stronger business partnerships (European

Commission, 2011c).

• The European Institute of Innovation and

Technology (EIT)14, created in March 2008,

brings together higher education institutions,

research organisations and businesses in

new types of partnerships — Knowledge

and Innovation Communities (KICs) —

operating in the areas of sustainable energy

(KIC InnoEnergy), climate change adaptation

and mitigation (Climate-KIC) and future

information and communication society

(EIT ICT Labs). The first results of the EIT are

already visible in terms of business creation

(five start-ups since January 2011) and a

first EIT-backed Masters’ course organised

by KIC InnoEnergy, with 155 students.

At the end of 2011, the Commission has

proposed a Strategic Innovation Agenda

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14 Innovation Union commitment No. 9: The EIT should set out a Strategic Innovation Agenda (SIA) to expand its activities as a showcase for Innovation in Europe.

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for the EIT to the European Parliament and

the Council. It focuses on consolidating the

three existing KICs and gradually setting

up new ones, which will address major

societal challenges in line with the Horizon

2020 objectives (European Commission,

2011c). The following thematic areas were

identified as those where the establishment

of a new KIC has greatest potential to add

value to existing activities and bring about

a real boost to innovation: for the launch

of KICs between 2014-2018: food4future -

sustainable supply chain from resources to

consumers; innovation for healthy living and

active ageing; raw materials – sustainable

exploration, extraction, processing, recycling

and substitution; for the launch of KICs after

2018: added-value manufacturing; smart

secure societies; urban mobility (European

Commission, 2011a).

Other initiatives are still under preparation,

such as the initiative to design and implement

an independent multi-dimensional international

university ranking system15, with first results

expected in 2013. It will allow to benchmark

university performance and, thus, to identify best

performing European universities. A feasibility

study was launched in May 2009 to design

and test the feasibility of a multi-dimensional.

It finished in June 2011 and prepared the

ground for the introduction of a personalised

ranking concept, both by taking account and

influencing the debate on rankings, contributing

to further improve and sophisticate existing

ranking systems. It carried out a pilot phase

including a sample of 159 institutions in and

outside the EU. This feasibility study concluded

that the implementation of this ranking is

possible, although continuous work will be

required in some indicators and dimensions.

The Commission is currently preparing the next

phase leading to the implementation of the multi-

dimensional ranking instrument, so that this

broader implementation is publicly available for

the first time by mid-2013.

Where are we going?




Commitments Description

Innovation Union

Commitment 2.A: “Personalised” University Ranking

In 2011 the Commission will, on the basis of the current preparatory work11, support an independent multi-dimensional international ranking system to benchmark university performance. This will allow the best performing European universities to be identified. In 2011 further steps will be proposed in a Communication on the reform and modernisation of higher education.

Commitment 2.B: Knowledge Alliances and Skills for Innovation

The Commission will also support business-academia collaborations through the creation of “Knowledge Alliances” between education and business to develop new curricula addressing innovation skills gaps (see also commitment 3 on e-skills).They will help universities to modernise towards inter-disciplinarity, entrepreneurship and stronger business partnerships

Commitment 4: European Research Area Framework


Commitment 9: European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)

By mid-2011, the EIT should set out a Strategic Innovation Agenda to expand its activities as a showcase for Innovation in Europe. This should map out its long term development within the Innovation Union, including the creation of new KICs, close links with the private sector and a stronger role in entrepreneurship. It should also build on the EIT Foundation being set up in 2010 and on the introduction in 2011 of the “EIT degree” as an internationally recognised label of excellence.

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programmes and priorities

What is it about?

According to the ERA Green Paper (European

Commission, 2007), coherence should be ensured

of national and regional research programmes

and priorities on issues of European interest. This

includes a significant volume of jointly programmed

public research investment at European level,

involving common priorities, coordinated

implementation and joint evaluation. This requires

cross-border operation of research actors. Hurdles

to cross-border collaboration exist at three levels

(Source: I³S platform, commitment 6):

• Political level: insufficient political will to

pool national resources into joint European

initiatives, as Member States are facing

pressure on public budgets;

• Structural level: incompatibility between

national research and innovation systems,

and hesitance of Member States to commit

to teaming up resources into “joint”

schemes; insufficient funding at national

level to address major challenges alone

and - in some Member States - absence of

national programmes or adequate top-down

governance;

• Managerial/implementation level: absence

of a simple set of common definitions /

principles between the EU and Member

States, which would allow assembling better

the various national actors for the design,

selection and implementation of cross-

border projects, programmes and funding

arrangements.

Another aspect of co-ordination in research

is the issue of societal challenges. Research and

innovation policies have always been looking for

ways to solve societal concerns, but using these

challenges as a driving factor for developing

research and innovation policy is a recent

Commitment 21: Facilitating Effective Collaborative Research and Knowledge Transfer

The Commission will facilitate effective collaborative research and knowledge transfer within the research Framework Programmes and beyond. It will work with stakeholders to develop a set of model consortium agreements with options ranging from traditional approaches to protect IP through to more open ones. Mechanisms are also needed to further strengthen knowledge transfer offices in public research organisations, in particular through trans-national collaboration

Commitment 31: Scientific Cooperation with third Countries

The European Union and its Member States should treat scientific cooperation with third countries as an issue of common concern and develop common approaches. This should contribute to global approaches and solutions to societal challenges and to the establishment of a level-playing field. In 2012 together with the ERA Framework, the Commission will propose common EU / Member States priorities in S&T as a basis for coordinated positions or joint initiatives vis-à-vis third countries, building on the work of the Strategic Forum for International Cooperation. In the meantime, the EU and Member States should act in a concerted manner when engaging in S&T agreements and activities with third countries. The potential scope for “umbrella” agreements between the EU and Member States with third countries will be explored.

Youth of the move


- Support the reform and modernisation of higher education, by presenting a Communication (2011)- Benchmark higher education performance and educational outcomes- Propose a multiannual Strategic Innovation Agenda (2011)

New skills for new jobs

Addressing mismatches

Promote dialogue between business and education and training providers, for the establishment of partnerships to meet medium-term skills needs; and provide insight on the expectations of employers with respect to students and graduates, through qualitative prospective studies such as ‘Tuning Educational Structures in Europe’.

European platform against poverty and social exclusion

Developing an evidence-based approach to social innovations and reforms

Launch in 2011 an initiative to pool a range of European funds to promote evidence-based social innovation, possibly initially concentrating on social assistance schemes: A European research excellence network to promote capacity building for the design and evaluation of social innovation programmes.

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development. What has caused this development

is a combination of factors (Source: I³S platform,

commitment 6), including:

• increasing demand from society to get

‘value for public money’ in terms of societal

benefits;

• the threatened competitive position of

Europe on the global stage which is forcing

policy makers at the highest political level

to reflect on new modes of stimulating

sustainable growth;

• the continued fragmentation and lack

of coordination in Europe across policy

domains and policy levels which an

approach based on grand challenges could

help to address

Where are we now?

Estimations indicate that around 85% of

public R&D in the EU is programmed, financed,

monitored and evaluated at national level, with

too little collaboration or coordination between

countries (European Commission, 2008b). In

2011 an EC Communication on Partnering in

Research and Innovation was launched aiming

to simplify the existing partnering landscape in

research and innovation (European Commission,

2011b). A wide set of co-ordination instruments

is currently available:

• Existing EU-level Public-Public Partnership

(P2P) instruments (European Commission,

2011b): ERA-NETs16 (100 since 2002)

aim to coordinate national research

programmes in a selected area. ERA-NET

Plus projects (9 since 2007) enhance

joint funding by MS and EU in a selected

area. Article 185 Initiatives (5 since 2003)

integrate national and European research

programmes in a selected area. Joint

16 For an interactive map of countries participating in ERA-NETs, see http://netwatch.jrc.ec.europa.eu/nw/index.cfm/info/Countries.

Programming Initiatives (10 have been

launched since 200817) aim to coordinate/

integrate national research programmes to

address a societal challenge. The Strategic

Energy Technology plan started in 2007

and aims to accelerate development of

low carbon energy technologies and

streamline national research programmes

in strategic technology areas at EU level.

Europe INNOVA/PRO INNO Europe (25

pilot projects since 2008, targeted at Eco-

innovation/innovation in services and

clusters) focuses on joint policy learning

and development of better innovation

support.

• Existing EU-level Public-Private Partnership

(PPP) instruments (European Commission,

2011b): Joint Technology Initiatives (5

since 2007) aim to strengthen European

industrial leadership in well defined

areas. European Industrial Initiatives (EIIs)

under the SET Plan (7 EIIs since 2010)

address the demonstration/market rollout

bottleneck in the innovation chain of low

carbon energy technologies. Recovery Plan

PPPs (3 since 2008) focus on maintaining

and strengthening industry sectors hit by

the economic crisis. Future Internet PPP

(since 2011) aims to ensure future Internet

development at the service of society.

COLIPA (since 2009) helps industry

comply with EU legislation. SESAR aims to

modernise European air traffic management.

• European Innovation Partnerships (EIPs - 2

up until now) aim to “act across the entire

Research and Innovation cycle to ensure that

ideas can be turned into successful products

or services to tackle societal challenges

whilst also generating growth and jobs”.

Knowledge and Innovation Communities

(KICs - 3 up until now) are structured

partnerships integrating education, research

17 For an overview of countries involved in each JPI: http://www.era.gv.at/space/11442/directory/11767.html.

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and business actors to address major societal

challenges (European Commission, 2011b).

Additional EIPs and KICs are in the pipeline.

• According no NETWATCH data, there were 7

active networks in 2011 receiving no funding

from FP7. They were all self-sustaining

networks, which were actually former ERA-

NETs, and which continued without EU

support (Harrap and Özbolat, 2011).

• In addition there are currently 11 INCO-

NETs, aiming to support bilateral dialogue

with Third Countries in the context of FP7

(European Commission, 2011f)18.

Research programming of universities in

Europe is currently not co-ordinated across

borders in a systematic way. With regard to co-

ordination between research institutes, two

initiatives exist to date: the European Energy

Research Alliance (EERA) and the European

Climate Research Alliance (ECRA).

Where are we going?

EU level funding will be drastically changed

after 2013. Horizon 2020 brings together all existing

Union research and innovation funding, including

the Framework Programme for Research, the

innovation related activities of the Competitiveness

and Innovation Framework Programme and the

European Institute of Innovation and Technology

(EIT) (European Commission, 2011g). Resources

will be focused on three priorities: ‘Excellent

Science’, ‘Industrial Leadership’, and ‘Societal

Challenges’. Funding will be focussed on the

following challenges: Health, demographic

change and wellbeing; Food security, sustainable

agriculture, marine and maritime research and the

bio-economy; Secure, clean and efficient energy;

Smart, green and integrated transport; Climate

action, resource efficiency and raw materials;

Inclusive, innovative and secure societies.



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6EU Research and Innovation Programmes

Future EU research and innovation programmes will focus on Europe 2020 objectives and particularly the Innovation Union. In 2011, looking ahead to the next financial perspectives, the Commission will set out ways for future programmes to focus more on societal challenges, streamline funding instruments and radically simplify access through a better balance between a control-based and a trust-based system.

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Strengthen the Science Base for Policy Making, “European Forum on Forward Looking Activities”

The Commission will create a “European Forum on Forward Looking Activities” bringing together existing studies and data and involving public and private stakeholders to improve the evidence base of policies.


By mid-2011, the EIT should set out a Strategic Innovation Agenda (SIA) to expand its activities as a showcase for Innovation in Europe. This should map out its long-term development within the Innovation Union, including the creation of new Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), close links with the private sector and a stronger role in entrepreneurship. It should also build on the EIT Foundation set up in 2010 and on the introduction in 2011 of the “EIT degree” as an internationally recognized label of excellence.”

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18 Eco-InnovationBy early 2011 the Commission will present an eco-innovation action plan building on the Innovation Union and focusing on the specific bottlenecks, challenges and opportunities for achieving environmental objectives through innovation.

21Facilitating Effective Collaborative Research and Knowledge Transfer

The Commission will facilitate effective collaborative research and knowledge transfer within the research Framework Programmes and beyond. It will work with stakeholders to develop a set of model consortium agreements with options ranging from traditional approaches to protect IP through to more open ones. Mechanisms are also needed to further strengthen knowledge transfer offices in public research organisations, in particular through transnational collaboration.

24-25 Maximising Social and Territorial Cohesion

Commitment 24: Starting in 2010: Member States should considerably improve their use of existing Structural Funds for research & innovation projects, helping people to acquire the necessary skills, improving the performance of national systems and implementing smart specialisation strategies and trans-national projects. This should also apply to the pre-accession funding for EU candidate countries. The Commission stands ready to assist and will use its regional research and cluster initiatives to support this change and establish a “smart specialisation platform” by 2012, including further support for the emergence of world class clusters. Commitment 25: Member States should initiate the preparation of post 2013 Structural Fund programmes with an increased focus on innovation and smart specialisation. Future regulations governing the operation of the European Regional Development Fund should further commit substantial financial resources to support innovation initiatives within the regions of the European Union.“

27-BResearch Programme on Public Sector and Social Innovation

Starting in 2011, the Commission will support a substantial research programme on public sector and social innovation, looking at issues such as measurement and evaluation, financing and other barriers to scaling up and development. As an immediate step, it will pilot a European Public Sector Innovation Scoreboard as a basis for further work to benchmark public sector innovation.

29 European Innovation Partnerships

The Council, Parliament, Member States, industry and other stakeholders are invited to support the innovation partnership concept and to indicate the specific commitments they will undertake to make the concept work. The Commission invites all key stakeholders to commit themselves to pooling efforts and resources to achieve the partnership’s intended objectives.

Digital Agenda

Action Area Research and Innovation

EC Key Action 9: Leverage more private investment through the strategic use of pre-commercial procurement and public-private partnerships, by using structural funds for research and innovation and by maintaining a pace of 20% yearly increase of the ICT R&D budget at least for the duration of FP7.EC action: Reinforce the coordination and pooling of resources with Member States and industry, and put greater focus on demand- and user-driven partnerships in EU support to ICT research and innovation.EC action: Starting in 2011 propose measures for ‘light and fast’ access to EU research funds in ICT, making them more attractive notably to SMEs and young researchers in view of a wider implementation within the revision of the EU RTD Framework.EC action: Ensure sufficient financial support to joint ICT research infrastructures and innovation clusters, develop further eInfrastructures and establish an EU strategy for cloud computing notably for government and science.EC Action: Work with stakeholders to develop a new generation of web-based applications and services, including for multilingual content and services, by supporting standards and open platforms through EU-funded programmes.MS action: By 2020, double annual total public spending on ICT research and development spending from €5.5bn to €11bn (which includes EU programmes), in ways that leverage an equivalent increase in private spending from € 35 billion to € 70 billion.MS action: Engage in large scale pilots to test and develop innovative and interoperable solutions in areas of public interest that are financed by the CIP.

Youth on the movePromoting the attractiveness of higher education for the knowledge economy

Propose a multiannual Strategic Innovation Agenda (2011)

Exploiting the full potential of EU funding programmes

Undertake a review of all relevant EU programmes fostering learning mobility and education, including via an open consultation of stakeholders, to be launched in September 2010, and make proposals in 2011 for the new Financial Framework

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knowledge sharing

What is it about?

The ERA Green Paper (European Commission,

2007) states that generation, diffusion and

exploitation of knowledge are at the core of the

research system. In particular it stresses that access

to knowledge generated by the public research

base and its use by business and policymakers lie

at the heart of the European Research Area, where

knowledge must circulate without barriers.

Such effective circulation of knowledge

should consist of: open and easy access to the

public knowledge base; a simple and harmonised

regime for Intellectual Property Rights, including

a cost-efficient patenting system and shared

principles for knowledge transfer and cooperation

between public research and industry; innovative

communication channels to give the public at

large access to scientific knowledge, the means

to discuss research agendas and the curiosity to

learn more about science.

Along the same line, it is also essential to

improve the education and continuous training of

researchers: researchers trained in Europe should

be confident that their qualifications will allow

a rewarding career. For that to happen European

doctoral programmes and further training should

meet stringent quality standards, fulfil the needs of

both academia and business, and be recognised

across Europe. Finally researchers at all levels

should be trained in cross-disciplinary work and

S&T administration, including knowledge transfer

and dialogue with society.

Where are we now?

The High Level Expert Group on Scientific

Data (2010) submitted a report to the European

Commission in 2010, recognising that important

work has been done: funding by the European

Commission of several projects to develop

distributed computing environments, databases

for discipline-specific content, and libraries for

new types of online communications. They also

note that much debate19 – from the Commission,

the Council and the Parliament – has taken place

about the need to speed development of scientific

e-infrastructure, and that many other public bodies

have begun considering these matters. At the same

time the High Level Expert Group on Scientific

19 For a description of the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG), see the section on Dimension 2.


Long-term framework

Outline what the EU needs to do to create a low-carbon economy in 2050; analyse how the EU can create an energy system by 2050 which is low-carbon, resource-efficient, secure and competitive; present a vision for a low-carbon, resource-efficient, secure and competitive transport system by 2050; define medium and long-term objectives and means for achieving them with the main aim to decouple economic growth from resource use and its environmental impact.


An energy efficiency plan with a time horizon of 2020; proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy, the Common Fisheries Policy, Cohesion Policy, energy infrastructure and trans-European networks for transport; a new EU biodiversity strategy for 2020; measures to tackle the challenges in commodity markets and on raw materials; A strategy to make the EU a ‚circular economy‘; early action on adaptation to climate change; a water policy.

Industrial policy

Innovative industry

Reducing the fragmentation of innovation support systems, facilitating bringing innovative solutions to the market, and increasing the market focus of research projects. Denmark and Austria have successfully reduced the fragmentation and the United Kingdom has schemes to bring innovative solutions to the market.European platform against poverty and social exclusion

Making EU funding deliver on the social inclusion and social cohesion objectives

The Commission will aim at facilitating access to global grants for small organisations and an improved access to funding for groups with multiple disadvantages and at high risk of poverty.

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Data offers a short-list of action by various EU

institutions – building on work already begun

across the EU in recent years, and complementing

efforts in the US, Japan and elsewhere in the

world. The actions proposed concern:

1. Develop an international framework for a

Collaborative Data Infrastructure

2. Earmark additional funds for scientific

e-infrastructure

3. Develop and use new ways to measure data

value, and reward those who contribute it

4. Train a new generation of data scientists, and

broaden public understanding

5. Create incentives for green technologies in

the data infrastructure

6. Establish a high-level, inter-ministerial

group on a global level to plan for data

infrastructure

An important obstacle to an effective

circulation of knowledge is the fragmented

patent system. Patenting remains excessively

complicated and costly in Europe, and

fragmented litigation fails to provide sufficient

legal certainty. Recently the European

Commission proposed a regulation for an

enhanced cooperation in the area of the

creation of unitary patent protection (European

Commission, 2011e).

Where are we going?

The above issues are targeted by the Europe

2020 strategy and below we identify the relevant

commitments/actions for each flagship initiative

of the strategy.



2BKnowledge Alliances and Skills for Innovation

“The Commission will also support business-academia collaborations through the creation of „Knowledge Alliances“ between education and business to develop new curricula addressing innovation skills gaps (see also commitment 3 on e-skills). They will help universities to modernise towards inter-disciplinarity, entrepreneurship and stronger business partnerships.“


“In 2012, the Commission will propose a European Research Area framework and supporting measures to remove obstacles to mobility and cross-border co-operation, aiming for them to be in force by end 2014.


“By mid-2011, the EIT should set out a Strategic Innovation Agenda (SIA) to expand its activities as a showcase for Innovation in Europe. This should map out its long-term development within the Innovation Union, including the creation of new Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), close links with the private sector and a stronger role in entrepreneurship. It should also build on the EIT Foundation set up in 2010 and on the introduction in 2011 of the “EIT degree” as an internationally recognized label of excellence.”

14 EU Patent “The European Parliament and Council should take the necessary steps to adopt the proposals on the EU patent, its linguistic regime and the unified system of dispute settlement.”

18 Eco-Innovation “By early 2011 the Commission will present an eco-innovation action plan building on the Innovation Union and focusing on the specific bottlenecks, challenges and opportunities for achieving environmental objectives through innovation.”

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“The Commission will promote open access to the results of publicly funded research. It will aim to make open access to publications the general principle for projects funded by the EU research Framework Programmes. The Commission will also support the development of smart research information services that are fully searchable and allow results from research projects to be easily accessed.”

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Facilitating Effective Collaborative Research and Knowledge Transfer

“The Commission will facilitate effective collaborative research and knowledge transfer within the research Framework Programmes and beyond. It will work with stakeholder to develop a set of model consortium agreements with options ranging from traditional approaches to protect IP through to more open ones. Mechanisms are also needed to further strengthen knowledge transfer offices in public research organisations, in particular through transnational collaboration.”

22Develop a European Knowledge Market for Patents and Licensing

“By the end of 2011, working closely with Member States and stakeholders, the Commission will make proposals to develop a European knowledge market for patents and licensing. This should build on Member State experience in trading platforms that match supply and demand, market places to enable financial investments in intangible assets, and other ideas for breathing new life into neglected intellectual property, such as patent pools and innovation brokering.”

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Role of Competition Policy in safeguarding Against the Use of IPRs for Anti-Competitive Purposes

“The Commission will examine the role of Competition Policy in safeguarding against the use of intellectual property rights for anti-competitive purposes. It will analyse the implications of collaborative IPR agreements as part of its review of the application of its anti-trust rules to horizontal agreements between competing companies.”

29European Innovation Partnerships

“The Council, Parliament, Member States, industry and other stakeholders are invited to support the innovation partnership concept and to indicate the specific commitments they will undertake to make the concept work. The Commission invites all key stakeholders to commit themselves to pooling efforts and resources to achieve the partnership’s intended objectives.

Digital Agenda

Action Area Research and Innovation

EC Key Action 9: Leverage more private investment through the strategic use of pre-commercial procurement and public-private partnerships, by using structural funds for research and innovation and by maintaining a pace of 20% yearly increase of the ICT R&D budget at least for the duration of FP7.EC action: Reinforce the coordination and pooling of resources with Member States and industry, and put greater focus on demand- and user-driven partnerships in EU support to ICT research and innovation.

EC action: Starting in 2011 propose measures for ‘light and fast’ access to EU research funds in ICT, making them more attractive notably to SMEs and young researchers in view of a wider implementation within the revision of the EU RTD Framework.

EC action: Ensure sufficient financial support to joint ICT research infrastructures and innovation clusters, develop further eInfrastructures and establish an EU strategy for cloud computing notably for government and science.EC Action: Work with stakeholders to develop a new generation of web-based applications and services, including for multilingual content and services, by supporting standards and open platforms through EU-funded programmes.MS action: Engage in large scale pilots to test and develop innovative and interoperable solutions in areas of public interest that are financed by the CIP.

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Area to the world

What is it about?

As the Green Paper (European Commission,

2007) states, “science knows no boundaries and

the issues that research is asked to deal with

are increasingly global”. There are no adequate

national or even European solutions to these

global problems (climate change, epidemics,

loss of biodiversity, energy security, cyber threats,

etc.). Moreover, the global research landscape is

changing rapidly. As an example, new players like

the BRICS countries are expanding their research

base with growing numbers of researchers,

amounts of public and private R&D funding, etc.

This requires the European Research Area to

be open and to reach out to the world. Science

is and has ever been global in its setup and

self-understanding. International cooperation

is happening bottom-up, driven by researchers

looking for knowledge and the best partners.

However, in order to address the right issues at

the right time, the Green Paper considers that

international S&T cooperation has to be steered

in a coherent manner and driven by policy.

Where are we now?

Europe is increasingly involved in

international activities, not least in the area

of the global challenges. However, the Green

Paper considers that this engagement has to be

coordinated better with Member States’ activities.

At the same time, a common and coordinated

approach has to take into account the varying

geometries on the side of Europe’s partners:

The Green Paper differentiates neighbouring

countries, developing countries and industrialised

and emerging economies.

In this direction, the 2008 Communication

from the European Commission to the Council

and the European Parliament on “A Strategic

European Framework for International Science and

Technology Cooperation” has to be mentioned as

an important step (European Commission, 2008a).

Among its guiding principles are the idea to widen

the ERA and make it more open to the world, to

ensure policy coherence and complementarity of

programmes, to foster cooperation with key third

countries and to develop the attractiveness of

Europe as a research partner. Some flashlight on

the current situation:

• The recent Framework Programmes for

Research and Technological Development

have established a series of instruments in

order to support international cooperation

horizontally (INCO-Nets, horizontal ERA-

Nets, BILATS, EUROAXESS) or thematically

(coordinated calls in the thematic work

programmes, etc) as well as to coordinate

with national policies and programmes of

international S&T cooperation (horizontal

ERA-Nets).

• Participation of third-country researchers in

the Framework Programme has increased

significantly. The success varies depending

on the country and there is still room for

improvement.

• Mobility of European researchers to third

countries and of third-country researchers

to Europe is supported through different

instruments, for instance the Marie Curie

actions in the Framework Programme.

European policy efforts like the Scientific

Visa Package for third country citizens are

moving forward, though at different speed in

different Member States.

• Particularly since the 2012 work

programmes, European-level efforts also

intend to facilitate innovation cooperation

and the joint exploitation of research results

(going beyond cooperation between public

research labs). It is too early to evaluate the

results of this process.

• Output-wise, for instance, the number of

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countries is on the rise. It is difficult to

estimate however to what extent this rise is

part of a general trend or an expression of

the success of European and/or Member

State efforts in internationalisations.

The International Cooperation Directorate of

DG Research & Innovation is working on a new

Strategy for the European-level international S&T

policy – publication is foreseen in the second half

of 2012.

Where are we going?

One of the goals (and challenges) of efforts

related to this dimension is, according to the

Green Paper (European Commission, 2007), to

make sure that international S&T cooperation

contributes to stability, security and prosperity

in the world. Global cooperation should and has

to make sure that solutions to global challenges

are found and shared. Europe’s international

S&T policy also aims at supporting European

competitiveness through strategic partnerships

and to facilitate contacts providing access to

research carried out elsewhere.

The Communication on the Strategic

Framework for International Cooperation states

the following orientations for future action

(European Commission, 2008a):

• strengthening the international dimension of

ERA

o integrating Europe’s neighbours into the

ERA

o fostering strategic cooperation with key

third countries through geographic and

thematic targeting

• improving the framework conditions for

international S&T cooperation

o tackling scientific challenges through

global research infrastructures

o mobility of researchers and global

networking

o more open research programmes

o good management of intellectual

property issues

o pre-standardization

Within Horizon 2020 the focus of

international cooperation will be on

cooperation with three major country groupings:

industrialised and emerging economies;

enlargement and neighbourhood countries;

and developing countries. Where appropriate,

Horizon 2020 will promote cooperation

at regional or multilateral level (European

Commission, 2011g).

The commitments or action areas which

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“In 2012, the Commission will propose a European Research Area framework and supporting measures to remove obstacles to mobility and cross-border co-operation, aiming for them to be in force by end 2014.

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“By 2012, the European Union and its Member States should put into place integrated policies to ensure that leading academics, researchers and innovators reside and work in Europe and to attract a sufficient number of highly skilled third country nationals to stay in Europe.” (linked to this is the Scientific Visa Directive (Council Directive 2005/71/EC)

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“The European Union and its Member States should treat scientific cooperation with third countries as an issue of common concern and develop common approaches. This should contribute to global approaches and solutions to societal challenges and to the establishment of a level-playing field (removing barriers to market access, facilitating standardisation, IPR protection, access to procurement etc.). In 2012 together with the ERA Framework, the Commission will propose common EU / Member States priorities in S&T as a basis for coordinated positions or joint initiatives vis-à-vis third countries, building on the work of the Strategic Forum for International Cooperation.”

From the Report of the EC on the State of the Innovation Union 2011 (European Commission, 2011c):

“In line with these commitments the EU and Member States have developed in the Strategic Forum for International Science and Technology Cooperation (SFIC) three pilot initiatives (with India, China and the US).

• A joint EU/Member States initiative aims to raise the attractiveness of Europe as a destination for research, particularly compared to the US. Attracting top talent from the US to Europe, offering excellence and capitalising on advanced European technology centres ought to redress transatlantic mobility.

• With India a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda is under preparation to leverage existing bilateral S&T cooperation. A central element is aimed at building strong links between European and Indian centres of excellence to develop viable and innovative solutions for societal challenges in fields like water, bio-mass, energy or health.

• With regard to China, common priorities for EU and Member States are currently being identified for purposes of more coordinated multilateral cooperation with China and to improve interoperability of bilateral programmes, funding schemes and rules (including IPR issues).”

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“The European Union should step up its cooperation on the roll-out of the global research infrastructures. By 2012, agreement should be reached with international partners on the development of research infrastructures, including ICT infrastructures, which owing to cost, complexity and/or interoperability requirements can only be developed on a global scale.”

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“Given the global dimension of key environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity, land use, deforestation, external impacts of consumption and production patterns, competitiveness, security of supply and access, the EU needs to address resource efficiency issues internationally and to cooperate closely with key partners, including with candidate countries and those in our neighbourhood.”

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From the EC Communication on security of energy supply and international cooperation (European Commission, 2011d):

“The Energy 2020 strategy identified strengthening the external dimension of the EU energy policy as one of the key priorities in the coming years. […] Accordingly, this Communication proposes to further develop an external energy policy with the following priorities:

− Building up the external dimension of our internal energy market; − Strengthening partnerships for secure, safe, sustainable and competitive energy;− Improving access to sustainable energy for developing countries; and − Better promoting EU policies beyond its borders.”

An agenda for new skills and jobs

Deepening international cooperation

Actively participate in the OECD’s new Programme for the Assessment of Adult Competences (PIAAC), alongside the ongoing PISA and AHELO Programmes on student and higher education outcomes. The Commission will also co-operate with the OECD in the development of qualitative studies on the evolution of skills demand and indicators of mismatches.Cooperate with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), particularly with a view to developing a knowledge sharing platform and to assess the global impact of climate change policies on skills and jobs;Enhance the current bilateral dialogues with third countries, particularly with China, India, the USA and Canada, leading to joint research and cooperation on forecasting and methodology.Develop the policy dialogue with neighbourhood countries and within the Eastern Partnership and the Union for the Mediterranean supported by the European Training Foundation, notably to develop the vocational education and training sector (VET) and national qualifications frameworks.

Mobilising Community instruments

The European Fund for the integration of third country nationals can also contribute – complementing the ESF - in upgrading and adapting immigrants’ skills, in particular by supporting pre-travel measures (e.g. vocational and language training) in the country of origin, and language courses in the Member State of residence.

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we have examined systematically 13 key

ERA instruments20, described in detail in

Annex II.21 As a result, table 7 shows the

main stakeholders indentified as active

participants in the evolving ERA. In addition,

some explanatory notes on each of them are

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Table 7. Main stakeholders actively involved in the ERA

Stakeholder Definition

European Commission (EC)

The EC is, needless to say, a key-stakeholder of the ERA as it is in charge to implement the decisions taken by the European Council and Parliament. The European Commission designs, in consultation with other stakeholders, and implements the framework programmes; furthermore, it is a funder or co-funder of many of the key instruments of the ERA (Including the different programmes of the FP7).

European Research Council (ERC)

The main goal of the ERC is to encourage high quality research in Europe through competitive funding. The ERC consists of a Scientific Council (which sets up the strategy to foster research excellence) and an Executive Agency (which implements it). The ERC is independent from the European Commission though it received its funds as part of the FP7.

European Institute of Technology (EIT) and the EIT Foundation (EITF)

The EIT is a body of the European Union established in March 2008 whose mission is to increase European sustainable growth and competitiveness by reinforcing its innovation capacity. To do so, the EIT has created integrated structures (Knowledge and innovation Communities - KICs), which link the higher education, research and business sectors to one another in order to boost innovation and entrepreneurship. Much of the EIT’s efforts to date have been focused on establishing the current three KICs. The EIT and the EIT Foundation are two separate legal entities.

The EIT Foundation (EITF) was established in September 2010 as a philanthropic foundation registered in the Netherlands. It is a not-for-profit entity whose primary purpose is to attract and channel funding for EIT activities that fall outside the scope of its regular funding, but which can bring the benefits of the EIT closer to EU citizens. Accordingly, it is responsible for fundraising and the subsequent financial administration of external donations.

Universities

Universities are a crucial stakeholder of the ERA. They have a prominent role in knowledge production and dissemination (education, training and innovation) and are also one of the most important employers of researchers. Within the ERA they are receivers of funds (and co-funders) for research, infrastructure and also coordination of research related activities. This is respectively the case, for instance, for the cooperation programme of the FP7, the capacities programme of the FP7, or the ERA-NET scheme.

European University Association (EUA)

The EUA1 represents and supports Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in 47 countries, providing them with a forum to cooperate and update them trends in higher education and research policies. It is the result of a merger between the Association of European Universities (CRE) and the Confederation of European Union Rectors‘ Conferences, which took place in Salamanca, Spain on 31 March 2001.

EUA plays an essential role in shaping tomorrow’s European higher education and research landscape thanks to its unique knowledge of the sector and the diversity of its members. The Association’s mandate in the Bologna process, contribution to EU research policy-making and relations with intergovernmental organisations, European institutions and international associations, ensure its capacity to debate issues which are crucial for universities in relation to higher education, research and innovation.

20 Information on instruments available at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/instruments/era_instruments_en.htm

21 Stakeholders in the wider sense of actors with a stake in the evolution of ERA will be identified in the VERA communication Strategy.

http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/instruments/era_instruments_en.htm

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European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA)

EARMA represents the community of Research Managers and Administrators within Europe. It acts as interface between research funding organisations and the scientific community, bridging cultural and legal differences between countries, and between academia and industry, contributing to policy consultations, and managing the smooth running of research projects.

Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) and The European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO)

RTOs are organisations “which as their predominant activity provide research and development, technology and innovation services to enterprises, governments and other clients” (as defined by EARTO2, the European trade association representing RTOs).

The have a key role in performing research and innovation, working with enterprises, governments, universities and others to support socio-economic development and public policy.

RTOs perform R&D and provide related technology services in the public interest. They generate innovation from research funded by government through a range of mechanisms.

RTOs also support public policy (and, increasingly, pre-policy debate through participation in consultation processes for instance) through research and state-of-the-art advice as well as through condition monitoring and technical service work (assaying, certification, norms and standards).

Individual researchersIndividual researchers are the ultimate stakeholder of the ERA. They are targeted, indirectly by all instruments, but directly as beneficiaries for infrastructure, research and mobility grants.

Large firmsLarge firms, as universities, can be receivers of different funding streams for both research and innovation programmes. As such they are a critical stakeholder of the ERA. For instance, they can be part of FP7 consortia, they can be involved in mobility schemes within the People programme, or take part in the EIT KICs.

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

SMEs can, in the first place, be involved in research consortia together with universities, research centres, or larger firms. However, as a category, they are also the targets of specific policy measures. In particular under the Capacities programme of the FP7, some initiative are aimed specifically at allowing SMEs to outsource their R&D activities to larger institutions (e.g. universities) either as individual firms or in networks, favouring intersectoral knowledge transfer. Other programmes aim at improving SMEs access to finance for research and innovation, providing key business services and innovation policy support, as well as piloting market tests.

European business associations

A number of European business associations play an important role in the ERA by facilitating the exchange of best practices, experience sharing and networking. They are also important as ‘agenda setter’ in the areas of their interest. Some examples are: European Industrial Research Management Association (EIRMA), The European Manufacturing and Innovation Research Association and The European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.

European Investment Fund (EIF)

The EIF is the European Investment Bank Group’s specialist provider of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) risk finance across Europe. It is owned by the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Commission and a wide range of public and private banks and financial institutions. The EIF supports innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe through a variety of instruments.

Programme managers and owners

While “programme managers” are national or regional research councils and funding agencies managing research programmes, “programme owners” are national ministries and regional authorities defining research programmes.

They are a critical ERA stakeholder not only in their capacity of research managers and policy makers, but also for strategic reasons. Currently, the vast bulk of research programmes in Europe are run in an isolated way, leading to unwanted fragmentation or ineffectiveness. However, major societal challenges require a more coordinated action, national programme managers and owners, therefore, are crucial to pool national research efforts and resources to tackle common European challenges more effectively in a few key areas. Thus, programme managers and owners of the different Member States play a crucial role if the development of joint programming initiatives and in the ERA-NETs and ERA-NETs +. Furthermore they can also be beneficiaries of the calls for proposals organised by the Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs).

Professional associations

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classified following a broader category as shown

in the Table 8.

Table 9 provides a synopsis of the key

stakeholders identified and their main roles

within the analysed instruments of the ERA.

Stakeholders can be further classified

regarding the following general functions within

the ERA:

Policy-formulation is the development of

effective and acceptable courses of action for

addressing what has been placed on the policy

agenda. The process of policy formulation goes

from the definition of principles of departure to

the design of the implementation plan and the

monitoring and evaluation systems. The EC and

programme owners of the national ministries and

regional authorities are the main stakeholders

involved in the policy formulation. Business

associations, associations of universities and

research managers and administrators also play

an important role as “agenda setters” and try to

influence the policy formulation process in the

areas of their interest. The ERC and the EIT also

play a role in this stage.

Policy-implementation represents the

stage of execution of the defined policy.

Implementation involves translating the goals and

objectives of a concrete policy into an operating,

on going program. The EC implements the FP and

other European initiatives. The ERC and EIT have

their own programmes and initiatives. At national/

regional level, ministries and research councils

implement and manage the programmes.

Regulatory bodies Regulatory bodies can be eligible to be part of the call for proposals organised by the JTIs.

Not-for-profit organisations

They can be present in the Innovation Communities (KICs) created by the EIT. A non-for-profit-led association is typically part of a JTI. They are also eligible to be part of the call for proposals organised by the JTIs.

Institutions from associated countries

Institutions from Associated Countries can participate in a large majority of instruments and can also be beneficiary of the calls.

Institutions from third countries

Participation of institutions from Third Countries is not always possible in all the instruments. For instance in the JTIs, applications from organisations based in third countries are assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Table 8. Classification of the main stakeholders by category and scope of performance

European level National level

Policy - making institutions EC, ERC, EIT, EIF , EARTOProgramme managers, programme owners, regulatory bodies

Academia EUA and EARMA Universities, RTOs, individual researchers

Business enterprise sector Business associations Large firms, SMEs

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Policy-evaluation. The effectiveness of

the policy needs to be assessed after a certain

period of time, and steps must be taken to

ensure that there are resources and means to

maintain a successful policy. Policy evaluation

is conducted for checking the effects of the

policies and for evaluating the policies in

terms of necessity, efficiency, validity, etc. to

improve the planning and implementation

process. The EU, ERC, EIT and EIF are

responsible for monitoring and evaluating

Table 9. Stakeholders actively involved in the ERA instruments and their main roles

Main roles in the ERA instruments

Designer of instruments

Provider of funds

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Part of the governance of instruments

Research performer

Beneficiary of research/

infrastructure funds

Beneficiary of funds for

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European University Association (EUA)European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA)Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs)

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SMEs x x x

Business association

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Professional associations

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Institutions from third countries

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the ongoing programmes and instruments. At

project level, also universities, RTOs, business

and other partners should put in place

monitoring mechanisms to steer the project

development.

Research performance refers to the

execution of the research. Universities, RTOs,

individual researchers, large firms and SMEs are

the key actors of this function. In some cases, the

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business, universities, managers, etc.) are typically

intermediary organisations which facilitate the

exchange of information, good practices and

network between partners and act also as links

between the stakeholders involved din the policy

formulation and those involved in the policy

implementation and research performance.

Use of research results: we refer to the

final users of the research results which can

be business, research centres, not-for-profit

organisations and society in general.

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This ERA fabric map provides a snapshot

of the ERA today in support of developing

alternative future scenarios for its evolution under

the VERA project. It shows that responsibilities

for research and innovation and related policy

domains are shared between the EU and its

Member States, and that the landscape of

European institutions, bodies and discussion fora

involved in research policy in Europe is quite

complex. Progress has been made with regard

to the 6 ERA dimensions as described in the ERA

Green Paper, and the European Commission is

aiming to complete the ERA by 2014, mainly

by implementing the Europe 2020 Strategy and

its 7 flagship initiatives. Implications of Europe

2020 for each ERA dimension have been looked

at in this report, showing the direction the ERA

is planned to take.

Many stakeholders participate in ERA

in a diversity of roles. Some of them will be

increasingly involved with the introduction

of the planned ERA Pacts. This initial

stakeholder mapping will serve as input for the

communication plan, which will, amongst others,

identify potential stakeholders, to be involved in

the VERA project.

This ERA Fabric Map will be updated twice

as part of the VERA project.

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X

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X

X

XX

47

ERA

Fab

ric M

ap -

Firs

t Edi

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ium

-ter

m

mea

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s

An e

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ficie

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plan

with

a ti

me

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on o

f 202

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tify

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sure

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ach

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savi

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cros

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l sec

tors

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w

hich

will

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follo

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to e

nsur

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cien

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nd

savi

ngs.

ECX

X

XX

Prop

osal

s to

refo

rm th

e Co

mm

on A

gric

ultu

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e Co

mm

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ECX

X

XX

X

A ne

w E

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trate

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loss

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X

XX

Mea

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ill h

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titut

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XX

X

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rate

gy to

mak

e th

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ed o

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aste

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ECX

XX

X

Early

act

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on a

dapt

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clim

ate

chan

ge to

min

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reat

s to

ec

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to c

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ECX

XX

X

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mak

es w

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ing

mea

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d in

crea

sing

wat

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X

XX

48

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ex I.

Eur

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2020

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p co

mm

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, ski

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x

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usin

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sect

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tiona

l edu

catio

n an

d tra

inin

g se

ctor

(VET

) and

nat

iona

l qua

lifica

tions

fram

ewor

ks.

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x

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ex I.

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ope

2020

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gshi

p co

mm

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ents

and

ER

A d

imen

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s

Mob

ilisi

ng

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mun

ity

inst

rum

ents

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th a

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obs

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tegy

and

the

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ual L

earn

ing

prog

ram

mes

with

in th

e Op

en M

etho

d of

Co-

ordi

natio

n pr

ovid

e an

ove

rall

polic

y fra

mew

ork

for t

he N

ew S

kills

for

New

Job

s in

itiat

ive.

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x

The

Com

mis

sion

’s R

ecov

ery

Plan

und

erlin

es th

at a

stro

nger

em

phas

is o

n fle

xicu

rity

polic

ies,

with

a fo

cus

on a

ctiv

atio

n m

easu

res,

retra

inin

g an

d sk

ills

upgr

adin

g, is

ess

entia

l to

prom

ote

empl

oyab

ility

and

rein

tegr

atio

n in

to th

e la

bour

m

arke

t.

ECx

x

The

upda

ted

stra

tegi

c fra

mew

ork

for c

oope

ratio

n in

ed

ucat

ion

and

train

ing

can

stim

ulat

e in

nova

tive

partn

ersh

ips

betw

een

educ

atio

n an

d tra

inin

g pr

ovid

ers

and

soci

al a

nd

econ

omic

act

ors,

to p

rom

ote

mor

e fle

xibl

e an

d de

man

d-le

d sy

stem

s.

ECx

x

The

impl

emen

tatio

n of

the

Euro

pean

Qua

lifica

tions

Fr

amew

ork

shou

ld in

crea

se th

e tra

nspa

renc

y of

qu

alifi

catio

ns a

nd fa

cilit

ate

acce

ss to

furth

er le

arni

ng. T

he

Cope

nhag

en p

roce

ss o

n co

oper

atio

n in

VET

will

incl

ude

a ne

w p

riorit

y to

impr

ove

the

links

with

the

labo

ur m

arke

t.

ECx

x

The

„Fift

h Fr

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m“

– th

e fre

edom

of m

ovem

ent o

f kn

owle

dge

- ca

lled

for b

y th

e 20

08 S

prin

g Eu

rope

an C

ounc

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will

sup

port

the

depl

oym

ent o

f the

New

Ski

lls fo

r New

Job

s in

itiat

ive.

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ill fo

ster

the

mob

ility

of k

now

ledg

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rs a

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ecto

rs a

nd th

us h

elp

mat

ch d

eman

d an

d su

pply

at t

he h

igh

skill

leve

l.

ECx

x

51

ERA

Fab

ric M

ap -

Firs

t Edi

tion

The

New

Ski

lls fo

r New

Job

s in

itiat

ive

is fu

lly w

ithin

th

e sc

ope

of th

e Eu

rope

an S

ocia

l Fun

d (E

SF).

Seve

ral

Mem

ber S

tate

s ha

ve a

lread

y id

entifi

ed a

s a

prio

rity

in

thei

r 200

7-20

13 E

SF p

rogr

amm

ing

the

deve

lopm

ent o

f po

licie

s an

d se

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es to

add

ress

ski

lls n

eeds

and

labo

ur

mar

ket m

ism

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es, i

nclu

ding

act

ions

aim

ing

at a

bet

ter

gend

er b

alan

ce a

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uida

nce

on e

duca

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ices

. The

Co

mm

issi

on w

ill p

rovi

de p

olic

y gu

idan

ce fo

r Mem

ber S

tate

s on

an

optim

al u

se o

f ESF

fund

s.

ECx

x

The

Euro

pean

Reg

iona

l Dev

elop

men

t Fun

d (E

RDF)

can

al

so c

ontri

bute

to d

evel

opin

g sk

ills

and

antic

ipat

ion,

by

prom

otin

g te

chno

logy

fore

cast

ing,

inno

vatio

n, re

sear

ch a

nd

deve

lopm

ent a

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omm

unic

atio

n in

frast

ruct

ure

and

thro

ugh

cros

s-bo

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coo

pera

tion

betw

een

educ

atio

n an

d tra

inin

g or

gani

zatio

ns.

ECx

x

The

Euro

pean

Agr

icul

tura

l Fun

d fo

r Rur

al D

evel

opm

ent

(EAF

RD) i

nves

ts in

inno

vatio

n, n

ew te

chno

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esea

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and

deve

lopm

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supp

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the

skill

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grad

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of

farm

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fore

ster

s an

d fo

od p

roce

ssor

s as

wel

l as

of th

e br

oade

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al p

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atio

n th

roug

h tra

inin

g, in

form

atio

n an

d di

ffusi

on o

f kno

wle

dge

actio

ns.

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x

The

Com

mis

sion

’s p

ropo

sal t

o am

end

the

Euro

pean

Gl

obal

isat

ion

adju

stm

ent F

und

(EGF

) Reg

ulat

ion

will

allo

w fo

r st

reng

then

ing

skill

s up

grad

ing

activ

ities

.EC

xx

The

Euro

pean

Fun

d fo

r the

inte

grat

ion

of th

ird c

ount

ry

natio

nals

can

als

o co

ntrib

ute

– co

mpl

emen

ting

the

ESF

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up

grad

ing

and

adap

ting

imm

igra

nts‘

ski

lls, i

n pa

rticu

lar

by s

uppo

rting

pre

-tra

vel m

easu

res

(e.g

. voc

atio

nal a

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ning

) in

the

coun

try

of o

rigin

, and

lang

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co

urse

s in

the

Mem

ber S

tate

of r

esid

ence

.

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xx

52

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ex I.

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2020

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mm

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fras

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Fund

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Kn

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Dim

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dust

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e m

odel

of t

he E

urop

ean

Stra

tegy

For

um o

n Re

sear

ch In

frast

ruct

ures

(ESF

RI).

X

Redu

cing

the

fragm

enta

tion

of in

nova

tion

supp

ort s

yste

ms,

fa

cilit

atin

g br

ingi

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nova

tive

solu

tions

to th

e m

arke

t, an

d in

crea

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the

mar

ket f

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of r

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proj

ects

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mar

k an

d Au

stria

hav

e su

cces

sful

ly re

duce

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e fra

gmen

tatio

n an

d th

e Un

ited

King

dom

has

sch

emes

to b

ring

inno

vativ

e so

lutio

ns to

the

mar

ket.

X

X

Sust

aina

ble

indu

stry

Favo

urin

g en

ergy

and

raw

mat

eria

l effi

cien

cy a

nd

prom

otin

g in

nova

tion

and

depl

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long

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e of

long

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ince

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at e

ncou

rage

mar

ket c

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faci

litat

e th

e pa

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patio

n of

SM

Es in

thes

e pr

oces

ses.

As

outli

ned

abov

e, m

any

Mem

ber S

tate

s ha

ve m

ade

cons

ider

able

pr

ogre

ss w

ith th

ese

issu

es.

Ensu

re fa

ir an

d un

dist

orte

d pr

icin

g of

ene

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cont

inue

to

wor

k on

upg

radi

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nd in

terc

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ergy

di

strib

utio

n ne

twor

ks.

Favo

urin

g an

d pr

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ing

soci

al e

ntre

pren

eurs

hip

in

Euro

pe, i

n pa

rticu

lar i

n en

hanc

ing

its p

ublic

pro

file

and

its

acce

ss to

pub

lic a

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rivat

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ance

(esp

ecia

lly th

roug

h So

cial

inve

stm

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).

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ness

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viro

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Redu

cing

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adm

inis

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e bu

rden

on

busi

ness

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y ev

alua

ting

the

curr

ent b

urde

n (in

clud

ing

that

due

to th

e ta

x co

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nd ra

pidl

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duci

ng b

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ns to

targ

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n am

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prov

ider

s th

at u

se

the

infra

stru

ctur

es in

bro

adba

nd, e

nerg

y an

d tra

nspo

rt.

53

ERA

Fab

ric M

ap -

Firs

t Edi

tion

Prom

otin

g in

dust

ry a

nd

serv

ices

Deve

lopi

ng s

uppo

rt fo

r inn

ovat

ive

serv

ices

bas

ed o

n m

easu

reab

le o

utco

mes

; and

by

parti

cipa

ting

in th

e In

nova

tion

Partn

ersh

ips

and

in la

rge-

scal

e de

mon

stra

tion

proj

ects

.

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impl

emen

ting

the

Sing

le M

arke

t leg

isla

tion,

in

parti

cula

r the

Ser

vice

s Di

rect

ive

and

prom

otin

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sine

ss

serv

ices

.

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l and

m

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terp

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litat

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the

grow

th o

f SM

Es b

y en

surin

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at

regu

latio

ns d

o no

t pos

e ob

stac

les

to e

xpan

sion

; by

favo

urin

g ac

cess

to a

ppro

pria

te fi

nanc

e; a

nd b

y pr

ovid

ing

supp

ort s

ervi

ces

for a

cces

sing

new

mar

kets

, and

pu

blic

isin

g th

ese.

Ensu

ring

tha t

pub

lic a

dmin

istra

tions

redu

ce p

aym

ent t

imes

an

d ad

here

stri

ctly

to th

e La

te P

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ents

Dire

ctiv

e.

Gene

ral E

C ac

tions

Stre

ngth

en th

e co

ordi

natio

n of

Mem

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tate

s’ in

dust

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polic

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by p

rom

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d m

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grow

th-e

nhan

cing

st

ruct

ural

impr

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to a

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Euro

pe 2

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54

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ex I.

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ope

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way

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prog

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mes

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IP) o

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thy

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tiativ

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l lev

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t of a

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Volu

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legi

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55

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Fab

ric M

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ratio

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m

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Pres

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n 20

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urop

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men

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sus

conf

eren

ce o

f Dec

embe

r 201

0.EC

Mai

nstre

amin

g

soci

al o

bjec

tives

in

sec

tora

l po

licie

s an

d in

in

tern

al m

arke

t an

d co

nsum

er

polic

ies

Acce

ssib

le u

se o

f Inf

orm

atio

n an

d Co

mm

unic

atio

n Te

chno

logi

esEC

Addr

ess

the

risks

of e

nerg

y po

verty

EC

Acce

ss to

fina

ncia

l ser

vice

s fo

r the

mos

t vul

nera

ble

EC

Exte

rnal

di

men

sion

Empl

oym

ent a

nd s

ocia

l pol

icie

sEC

56

Ann

ex I.

Eur

ope

2020

Fla

gshi

p co

mm

itm

ents

and

ER

A d

imen

sion

s

Soci

al Im

pact

As

sess

men

t

Cont

inue

to re

fine

and

impr

ove

the

qual

ity o

f its

impa

ct a

sses

smen

t to

ens

ure

that

atte

ntio

n is

pai

d to

the

soci

al d

imen

sion

. It

is im

porta

nt th

at o

ther

EU

Inst

itutio

ns w

hen

mod

ifyin

g th

e Co

mm

issi

on‘s

pro

posa

ls a

nd th

e M

embe

r Sta

tes

at n

atio

nal l

evel

as

sess

the

soci

al d

imen

sion

of t

heir

own

prop

osal

s.

EC/o

ther

EU

Inst

itutio

ns/

MS

x

Mak

ing

EU

fund

ing

deliv

er o

n th

e so

cial

in

clus

ion

and

soci

al

cohe

sion

ob

ject

ives

The

Euro

pean

Soc

ial F

und

shou

ld b

e us

ed to

sus

tain

Mem

ber S

tate

s‘ e

fforts

to a

chie

ve

the

Euro

pe 2

020

obje

ctiv

es, i

nclu

ding

the

pove

rty re

duct

ion

targ

et. T

his

impl

ies

that

the

nece

ssar

y re

sour

ces

wou

ld b

e de

vote

d to

soc

ial i

nclu

sion

whi

le m

akin

g th

e ac

cess

of

the

rele

vant

sta

keho

lder

s to

thos

e re

sour

ces

easi

er.

EC

The

Com

mis

sion

will

aim

at f

acili

tatin

g ac

cess

to g

loba

l gra

nts

for s

mal

l org

anis

atio

ns

and

an im

prov

ed a

cces

s to

fund

ing

for g

roup

s w

ith m

ultip

le d

isad

vant

ages

and

at h

igh

risk

of p

over

ty.

ECx

x

The

Com

mis

sion

will

put

forw

ard

prop

osal

s in

201

1 fo

r the

new

Coh

esio

n Po

licy

regu

lato

ry fr

amew

ork

for t

he p

erio

d po

st-2

013

whi

ch w

ill s

impl

ify a

cces

s to

the

stru

ctur

al fu

nds

for l

ocal

gro

ups

and

ensu

re g

reat

er c

ompl

emen

tarit

y an

d sy

nerg

ies

betw

een

EU fu

nds

to p

rom

ote

com

mun

ity-b

ased

app

roac

hes,

incl

udin

g fo

r urb

an

rege

nera

tion.

ECx

The

Com

mis

sion

will

pro

pose

for t

he n

ew C

ohes

ion

Polic

y po

st-2

013

a Co

mm

on

Stra

tegi

c Fr

amew

ork

(CSF

) tha

t will

ens

ure

cohe

renc

e an

d co

mpl

emen

tarit

y be

twee

n th

e Eu

rope

an R

egio

nal D

evel

opm

ent F

und,

the

Euro

pean

Soc

ial F

und,

the

Euro

pean

Ag

ricul

tura

l Fun

d fo

r Rur

al D

evel

opm

ent a

nd th

e Eu

rope

an F

ishe

ries

Fund

. The

CSF

w

ould

iden

tify

EU p

riorit

ies

to a

ddre

ss th

e Eu

rope

an p

over

ty ta

rget

and

the

actio

ns s

et

out i

n th

is fl

agsh

ip in

itiat

ive.

ECx

57

ERA

Fab

ric M

ap -

Firs

t Edi

tion

Deve

lopi

ng

an e

vide

nce-

base

d ap

proa

ch

to s

ocia

l in

nova

tions

an

d re

form

s

Laun

ch in

201

1 an

initi

ativ

e to

po

ol a

rang

e of

Eu

rope

an fu

nds

to p

rom

ote

evid

ence

-bas

ed

soci

al in

nova

tion,

po

ssib

ly in

itial

ly

conc

entra

ting

on

soci

al a

ssis

tanc

e sc

hem

es.

A Eu

rope

an re

sear

ch e

xcel

lenc

e ne

twor

k to

pro

mot

e ca

paci

ty

build

ing

for t

he d

esig

n an

d ev

alua

tion

of s

ocia

l inn

ovat

ion

prog

ram

mes

.EC

xx

A Eu

rope

an re

sear

ch p

roje

ct in

the

area

of s

ocia

l inn

ovat

ion

aim

ed

at d

evis

ing

wor

kabl

e m

etho

ds a

nd c

oncr

ete

impa

ct m

easu

rem

ents

.EC

x

The

defin

ition

of c

omm

on p

rinci

ples

on

the

desi

gn, i

mpl

emen

tatio

n an

d ev

alua

tion

of s

mal

l sca

le p

roje

cts

desi

gned

to te

st p

olic

y in

nova

tions

(or r

efor

ms)

bef

ore

adop

ting

them

mor

e w

idel

y (s

ocia

l ex

perim

ents

).

EC

Com

mun

icat

ion

and

awar

enes

s ra

isin

g ab

out o

ngoi

ng s

ocia

l in

nova

tion.

EC

A “h

igh-

leve

l ste

erin

g co

mm

ittee

” w

hich

will

pro

vide

adv

ice

and

guid

ance

on

deve

lopi

ng a

ctio

ns.

EC

Prom

otin

g a

partn

ersh

ip

appr

oach

and

th

e so

cial

ec

onom

y

Supp

ort t

hrou

gh th

e PR

OGRE

SS p

rogr

amm

e re

gula

r exc

hang

es a

nd p

artn

ersh

ips

betw

een

a w

ider

set

of s

take

hold

ers

in s

peci

fic p

riorit

y ar

eas,

suc

h as

act

ive

incl

usio

n,

child

pov

erty

, Rom

a in

clus

ion,

hom

eles

snes

s an

d fin

anci

al in

clus

ion.

ECx

Elab

orat

e vo

lunt

ary

guid

elin

es o

n st

akeh

olde

rs’ i

nvol

vem

ent i

n th

e de

finiti

on a

nd th

e im

plem

enta

tion

of p

olic

y ac

tions

and

pro

gram

mes

to a

ddre

ss p

over

ty a

nd e

xclu

sion

, an

d w

ill p

rom

ote

thei

r im

plem

enta

tion

at n

atio

nal,

regi

onal

and

loca

l lev

el.

ECx

58

Ann

ex I.

Eur

ope

2020

Fla

gshi

p co

mm

itm

ents

and

ER

A d

imen

sion

s

Harn

essi

ng

the

pote

ntia

l of

the

soci

al

econ

omy

Supp

ort t

he d

evel

opm

ent o

f the

soc

ial e

cono

my

as a

tool

for a

ctiv

e in

clus

ion

by p

ropo

sing

mea

sure

s to

impr

ove

the

qual

ity o

f the

lega

l stru

ctur

es re

latin

g to

fo

unda

tions

, mut

ual s

ocie

ties

and

coop

erat

ives

ope

ratin

g in

a E

urop

ean

cont

ext,

prop

osin

g a

„Soc

ial B

usin

ess

Initi

ativ

e“ in

201

1, a

s w

ell a

s fa

cilit

atin

g ac

cess

to

rele

vant

EU

finan

cial

pro

gram

mes

.

ECx

Step

ping

up

pol

icy

coor

dina

tion

betw

een

the

Mem

ber

Stat

es

Base

d on

the

expe

rienc

e of

the

first

Eur

opea

n Se

mes

ter o

f Eur

ope

2020

, the

Co

mm

issi

on w

ill d

iscu

ss w

ith M

embe

r Sta

tes

and

othe

r ins

titut

iona

l and

non

-in

stitu

tiona

l act

ors,

how

to b

est a

dapt

the

wor

king

met

hods

of t

he S

ocia

l Ope

n M

etho

d of

Coo

rdin

atio

n to

the

new

gov

erna

nce

of E

urop

e 20

20. T

he C

omm

issi

on w

ill p

rese

nt a

re

port

befo

re th

e en

d of

201

1 su

mm

aris

ing

the

orie

ntat

ions

em

erge

d an

d th

e fo

llow

up

it w

ill g

ive

to it

.

EC/M

S/ O

ther

Build

ing

on

the

lega

c y o

f th

e Eu

rope

an

year

201

0 ag

ains

t po

verty

and

ex

clus

ion

Wor

k w

ith o

ther

EU

inst

itutio

ns a

nd b

odie

s to

tran

sfor

m th

e An

nual

Rou

nd T

able

on

Pove

rty a

nd E

xclu

sion

into

a w

ider

Ann

ual C

onve

ntio

n of

the

Euro

pean

Pla

tform

des

igne

d to

brin

g to

geth

er a

ll re

leva

nt a

ctor

s.

EC/o

ther

EU

Inst

itutio

ns

and

bodi

es

59

ERA

Fab

ric M

ap -

Firs

t Edi

tion

Ann

ex I

I. M

ain

stak

ehol

ders

invo

lved

in a

sel

ecte

d nu

mbe

r of

ER

A in

stru

men

ts

Stak

ehol

ders

Nam

e of

the

Inst

rum

ent

Obje

ctiv

eRo

le o

f Eur

opea

n Co

mm

issi

onCo

nsul

tatio

n pr

oces

s (if

any

)Fu

nder

sBe

nefic

iary

Gove

rnan

ceER

A di

men

sion

Era-

Net a

nd E

ra-N

et +

ERA-

NET

sche

me:

dev

elop

and

stre

ngth

en

the

coor

dina

tion

of n

atio

nal a

nd re

gion

al

rese

arch

pro

gram

mes

. ER

A-NE

T Pl

us

actio

ns a

im a

t fac

ilita

ting

the

laun

ch o

f jo

int c

alls

for p

ropo

sals

Desi

gn o

f the

inst

rum

ent,

orga

nise

ca

ll fo

r pro

posa

l, ev

alua

tion

of th

e in

stru

men

t, su

ppor

t of t

he e

xist

ing

ERA-

NETs

, cov

er a

dditi

onal

cos

ts

rela

ted

to th

e co

ordi

natio

n up

to 1

00%

. ER

A-NE

T +

: the

Com

mis

sion

pro

vide

s an

ince

ntiv

e fo

r the

org

anis

atio

n of

jo

int c

alls

bet

wee

n na

tiona

l or r

egio

nal

rese

arch

pro

gram

mes

, by

‘topp

ing-

up’ j

oint

tran

snat

iona

l fun

ding

with

Co

mm

unity

fund

ing

The

Com

mis

sion

sta

keho

lder

con

sulta

tion

on th

e fu

ture

of E

urop

ean

rese

arch

re

veal

ed a

stro

ng s

uppo

rt fo

r mor

e co

ordi

natio

n of

nat

iona

l res

earc

h pr

ogra

mm

es fr

om a

ll ca

tego

ries

of

cont

ribut

ors

Prog

ram

me

‘ow

ners

’ (n

atio

nal m

inis

tries

or

regi

onal

aut

horit

ies

defin

ing

rese

arch

pro

gram

mes

) and

pr

ogra

mm

e ‘m

anag

ers’

(re

sear

ch c

ounc

ils o

r oth

er

rese

arch

fund

ing

agen

cies

m

anag

ing

rese

arch

pr

ogra

mm

es. A

lso

EC

(add

ition

al c

osts

).

Prog

ram

me

man

ager

s an

d ow

ner (

addi

tiona

l cos

t) Un

iver

sitie

s, re

sear

ch

cent

res,

larg

e co

mpa

nies

, SM

Es (o

f the

ope

n ca

lls).

In s

ome

case

s al

so

inte

rnat

iona

l org

anis

atio

ns

parti

cipa

te

Each

ERA

-NET

is c

oord

inat

ed b

y a

natio

nal p

rogr

amm

e ow

ner o

r m

anag

er. T

he E

C al

so h

elps

to

coor

dina

te a

nd p

uttin

g to

geth

er

diffe

rent

ERA

-NET

(ERA

-NET

s o

n st

age

wor

ksho

ps, d

evel

opm

ent o

f NE

TWAT

CH)

Dim

ensi

on

4: F

undi

ng:

coor

dina

ted

rese

arch

pr

ogra

mm

es a

nd

prio

ritie

s

ERC

Gran

t Sch

eme

(Idea

Pro

gram

me)

Euro

pean

Res

earc

h Co

unci

l (ER

C)

gran

ts s

uppo

rt in

divi

dual

rese

arch

ers

of a

ny n

atio

nalit

y an

d ag

e w

ho w

ish

to

purs

ue th

eir f

ront

ier r

esea

rch.

Tw

o m

ain

sche

mes

: one

for e

arly

car

eer r

esea

rche

rs

(2 to

12

year

s po

st P

hd) f

or a

max

of 2

m

ln; o

ne fo

r old

er re

sear

cher

s fo

r a m

ax

of 3

.5 m

ln

The

sche

me

is im

plem

ente

d by

the

ERC

whi

ch is

inde

pend

ent f

rom

the

com

mis

sion

Th

e ER

C is

the

Fund

er

The

dire

ct b

enefi

ciar

y of

th

e fu

nd c

an b

e a

priv

ate

or

publ

ic re

sear

ch in

stitu

tion.

Th

e ap

plic

atio

n fo

r the

gr

ant i

s m

ade

by a

prin

cipa

l in

vest

igat

or o

n be

half

of th

e in

stitu

tion

whi

ch w

ill th

en

host

her

/him

.

The

gran

ts a

re a

lloca

ted

by a

pan

el

of e

xper

ts.

Dim

ensi

on 1

: Pe

ople

: An

adeq

uate

flo

w o

f com

pete

nt

rese

arch

ers

60

Ann

ex II

. Mai

n st

akeh

olde

rs in

volv

ed in

a s

elec

ted

num

ber

of E

RA

inst

rum

ents

Stak

ehol

ders

Nam

e of

the

Inst

rum

ent

Obje

ctiv

eRo

le o

f Eur

opea

n Co

mm

issi

onCo

nsul

tatio

n pr

oces

s (if

any

)Fu

nder

sBe

nefic

iary

Gove

rnan

ceER

A di

men

sion

Mar

ie C

urie

(Peo

ple)

A se

t of a

ctio

ns th

at s

uppo

rt re

sear

cher

m

obili

ty a

nd c

aree

r dev

elop

men

t, w

ithin

and

out

side

the

Euro

pean

Uni

on.

Som

e ac

tions

are

targ

eted

to in

divi

dual

re

sear

cher

s, o

ther

to h

ost i

nstit

utio

ns,

or to

hos

t-ne

twor

ks/p

artn

ersh

ips

of

inst

itutio

ns.

Fund

er o

r co-

fund

er. C

osts

cov

ered

are

pe

rson

nel a

s w

ell a

s ne

twor

k ac

tiviti

es

and

othe

r res

earc

h co

sts

Rese

arch

fund

ing

orga

nisa

tions

(in

som

e ac

tions

). It

seem

s th

at a

ll st

akeh

olde

rs m

ay b

e in

volv

ed

in th

e fu

ndin

g.

Indi

vidu

al M

arie

Cur

ie

Fello

ws,

net

wor

ks/

partn

ersh

ips

of re

sear

ch

and

busi

ness

es, a

ny

rese

arch

per

form

ing

inst

itutio

ns, r

esea

rch

fund

ing

orga

nisa

tions

.

Diffe

rent

type

s of

act

ion

are

fore

seen

: 1. C

reat

ion

of n

etw

orks

fo

r tra

inin

g 2.

Cre

atio

n of

pub

lic

partn

ersh

ip 3

. Dire

ct p

artic

ipat

ion

of

rese

arch

ers

in n

ew in

stitu

tions

.

Dim

ensi

on 1

: Pe

ople

: An

adeq

uate

flo

w o

f com

pete

nt

rese

arch

ers

E-In

frast

ruct

ure

(Cap

aciti

es)

The

prog

ram

me

focu

ses

on th

e fu

rther

de

velo

pmen

t and

evo

lutio

n of

the

high

-cap

acity

and

hig

h-pe

rform

ance

co

mm

unic

atio

n ne

twor

k (G

ÉANT

), di

strib

uted

com

putin

g in

frast

ruct

ures

(g

rids

and

clou

ds),

supe

rcom

pute

r in

frast

ruct

ures

, sim

ulat

ion

softw

are,

sc

ient

ific

data

infra

stru

ctur

es, e

-Sci

ence

se

rvic

es a

s w

ell a

s on

the

adop

tion

of

e-In

frast

ruct

ures

by

user

com

mun

ities

.

Fund

er o

f the

infra

stru

ctur

e

Diffe

rent

rese

arch

de

partm

ents

aro

und

Euro

pe

and

the

wor

ld m

ake

use

of

this

infra

stru

ctur

e. I

assu

me

firm

s ar

e in

volv

ed in

bu

ildin

g th

is in

frast

ruct

ure.

A n

ot fo

r pro

fit c

ompa

ny m

anag

es

the

fund

s of

the

EC. I

t is

gove

rned

by

NRE

N (N

atio

nal R

esea

rch

and

Educ

atio

n Ne

twor

ks).

Dim

ensi

on 2

: In

frast

ruct

ure:

W

orld

-cla

ss re

sear

ch

infra

stru

ctur

es

61

ERA

Fab

ric M

ap -

Firs

t Edi

tion

Stak

ehol

ders

Nam

e of

the

Inst

rum

ent

Obje

ctiv

eRo

le o

f Eur

opea

n Co

mm

issi

onCo

nsul

tatio

n pr

oces

s (if

any

)Fu

nder

sBe

nefic

iary

Gove

rnan

ceER

A di

men

sion

Rese

arch

for t

he

Bene

fit o

f SM

Es

(Cap

aciti

es)

The

aim

is to

stre

ngth

en th

e ‘in

nova

tion

capa

city

’ of s

mal

l and

med

ium

-siz

ed

ente

rpris

es (S

MEs

) in

Euro

pe a

nd th

eir

cont

ribut

ion

to th

e de

velo

pmen

t of n

ew

tech

nolo

gy b

ased

pro

duct

s an

d m

arke

ts.

The

prog

ram

me

will

hel

p th

em o

utso

urce

re

sear

ch, i

ncre

ase

thei

r res

earc

h ef

forts

, ext

end

thei

r net

wor

ks, b

ette

r ex

ploi

t res

earc

h re

sults

and

acq

uire

te

chno

logi

cal k

now

how

, brid

ging

the

gap

betw

een

rese

arch

and

inno

vatio

n.

The

prog

ram

me

supp

ort a

ims

at S

MEs

or

SME

asso

ciat

ions

in n

eed

of o

utso

urci

ng

rese

arch

to p

rovi

ders

of r

esea

rch

serv

ices

(‘RT

D pe

rform

ers’

) suc

h as

un

iver

sitie

s, re

sear

ch c

entre

s or

oth

er,

mor

e sp

ecia

lised

SM

Es. T

he p

rogr

amm

e al

so p

rovi

des

deve

lopi

ng a

nd c

oord

inat

ing

supp

ort t

o SM

Es a

t nat

iona

l lev

el a

nd

othe

r sup

port

mea

sure

s (s

tudi

es, e

tc.).

Fund

er/C

o-fu

nder

/ Man

ager

of t

he

proj

ect.

the

SMEs

and

oth

er

orga

nisa

tions

that

par

ticip

ate

to th

e pr

ojec

ts h

ave

to

co-f

und

SMEs

, Res

earc

h in

stitu

tions

. Fu

nds

can

cove

r SM

Es, o

r SM

Es

Netw

orks

.

Dim

ensi

on 3

. Or

gani

satio

ns:

Exce

llent

rese

arch

in

stitu

tions

; Di

men

sion

4 Fu

ndin

g: W

ell-

coor

dina

ted

rese

arch

pr

ogra

mm

es a

nd

prio

ritie

s; D

imen

sion

5

Know

ledg

e ci

rcul

atio

n: E

ffect

ive

know

ledg

e sh

arin

g

62

Ann

ex II

. Mai

n st

akeh

olde

rs in

volv

ed in

a s

elec

ted

num

ber

of E

RA

inst

rum

ents

Stak

ehol

ders

Nam

e of

the

Inst

rum

ent

Obje

ctiv

eRo

le o

f Eur

opea

n Co

mm

issi

onCo

nsul

tatio

n pr

oces

s (if

any

)Fu

nder

sBe

nefic

iary

Gove

rnan

ceER

A di

men

sion

Com

petit

iven

ess

and

Inno

vatio

n Fr

amew

ork

Prog

ram

me

The

EIP,

one

of th

e sp

ecifi

c pr

ogra

mm

es

unde

r the

CIP,

see

ks to

sup

port

inno

vatio

n an

d sm

all a

nd m

ediu

m e

nter

pris

es

(SM

Es) i

n th

e EU

, foc

usin

g on

(1) A

cces

s to

fina

nce

(2) B

usin

ess

Serv

ices

(3)

Supp

ort f

or im

prov

ing

inno

vatio

n po

licy

(4) P

ilot a

nd m

arke

t tes

ting

for i

nnov

ativ

e pr

oduc

ts/p

roce

sses

/ser

vice

s (5

) Sup

port

for i

nnov

atio

n an

d SM

E po

licy-

mak

ing

thou

gh c

ontra

cts

and

gran

ts, a

naly

tical

w

ork

and

awar

enes

s ra

isin

g ac

tiviti

es

Fund

er/C

o-fu

nder

/ Man

ager

of t

he p

roje

ct.

Bank

s, g

uara

ntee

, m

icro

finan

ce p

rovi

ders

, pr

ivat

e eq

uity

and

ven

ture

ca

pita

l fun

ds th

roug

h th

e EI

F

Mos

t fun

ds a

nd s

ervi

ces

are

addr

esse

d to

SM

Es.

It de

pend

s on

the

type

of a

ctio

ns.

For s

uppo

rt to

rese

arch

the

mec

hani

sm is

nor

mal

ly th

at o

f an

ope

n co

mpe

titio

n. H

owev

er,

a no

tabl

e in

itiat

ive

is th

at o

f the

En

terp

rise

Euro

pe N

etw

ork

in w

hich

a

varie

ty o

f org

anis

atio

ns (c

ham

bers

of

com

mer

ce a

nd in

dust

ry,

tech

nolo

gy c

entre

s, re

sear

ch

inst

itute

s an

d de

velo

pmen

t ag

enci

es) p

rovi

de fr

ee s

ervi

ces

to

SMEs

bus

ines

s de

velo

pmen

t.

63

ERA

Fab

ric M

ap -

Firs

t Edi

tion

Stak

ehol

ders

Nam

e of

the

Inst

rum

ent

Obje

ctiv

eRo

le o

f Eur

opea

n Co

mm

issi

onCo

nsul

tatio

n pr

oces

s (if

any

)Fu

nder

sBe

nefic

iary

Gove

rnan

ceER

A di

men

sion

EIT

(Eur

opea

n In

stitu

te

of T

echn

olog

y)

The

EIT

is a

bod

y of

the

Euro

pean

Uni

on

esta

blis

hed

in M

arch

200

8. It

s m

issi

on is

to

gro

w a

nd c

apita

lise

on th

e in

nova

tion

capa

city

and

cap

abili

ty o

f act

ors

from

hi

gher

edu

catio

n, re

sear

ch, b

usin

ess

and

entre

pren

eurs

hip

from

the

EU a

nd b

eyon

d th

roug

h th

e cr

eatio

n of

hig

hly

inte

grat

ed

Know

ledg

e an

d In

nova

tion

Com

mun

ities

(K

ICs)

.

The

EIT

con

cept

was

pro

pose

d by

th

e EC

and

its

visi

on a

nd a

ppro

ach

wer

e fir

st s

ubm

itted

in a

Eur

opea

n Co

mm

issi

on C

omm

unic

atio

n in

Fe

brua

ry 2

006

Wid

e pu

blic

con

sulta

tion

taki

ng in

to

acco

unt m

ore

than

700

con

tribu

tions

by

expe

rts a

nd th

e ge

nera

l pub

lic

EU

budg

et (p

rovi

de th

e su

ppor

t stru

ctur

e an

d th

e co

nditi

ons

nece

ssar

y fo

r in

tegr

ated

kno

wle

dge

trans

fer a

nd n

etw

orki

ng).E

IT

annu

al g

rant

will

be

allo

cate

d on

a c

ompe

titiv

e ba

sis

and

may

not

exc

eed

25 %

of t

he

KICs

’ glo

bal e

xpen

ditu

re In

ad

ditio

n to

pub

lic fu

ndin

g vi

a th

e EU

bud

get,

the

EIT

aim

s to

attr

act s

igni

fican

t priv

ate

sect

or fu

nds

for i

ts a

ctiv

ities

(E

IT F

ound

atio

n ).

Kno

wle

dge

and

Inno

vatio

n Co

mm

uniti

es

(KIC

s). T

hey

incl

ude

busi

ness

es (i

nclu

ding

SM

Es);

entre

pren

eurs

; re

sear

ch a

nd te

chno

logy

or

gani

satio

ns; h

ighe

r ed

ucat

ion

inst

itutio

ns;

inve

stm

ent c

omm

uniti

es

(priv

ate

inve

stor

s an

d ve

ntur

e ca

pita

l); re

sear

ch

fund

ers,

incl

udin

g ch

ariti

es

and

foun

datio

ns; l

ocal

, re

gion

al a

nd n

atio

nal

gove

rnm

ents

. The

EIT

gr

ant t

o th

e KI

C w

ill a

ct a

s le

vera

ge. K

ICs

will

dra

w o

n a

varie

ty o

f sou

rces

in o

rder

to

ens

ure

a so

und

finan

cial

ba

se (N

atio

nal/R

egio

nal

fund

ing

– e.

g. g

rant

s fro

m N

atio

nal e

duca

tiona

l or

rese

arch

cou

ncils

Co

mm

unity

(non

-EIT

) fu

ndin

g -

e.g.

FP7

rese

arch

gr

ant o

r stru

ctur

al fu

ndin

g;

Priv

ate

fund

ing

– e.

g. g

rant

fro

m a

priv

ate

foun

datio

n or

con

tribu

tion

from

priv

ate

busi

ness

. ; T

he p

artic

ipan

t’s

own

reso

urce

s -

e.g.

cas

h fro

m th

e pa

rtici

pant

’s

own

treas

ury

or in

-kin

d co

ntrib

utio

ns s

uch

as th

e us

e of

bui

ldin

gs (t

each

ing

faci

litie

s, la

bora

torie

s,

offic

es) o

r sta

ff th

at th

e pa

rtner

s pl

ace

at th

e di

spos

al o

f the

KIC

with

out

char

ge).

EIT

has

a fu

lly in

depe

nden

t go

vern

ing

body

: pre

stig

ious

pr

ofes

sion

als

from

bus

ines

s an

d ac

adem

ic b

ackg

roun

ds. T

he K

ICs

are

an in

depe

nden

t but

ope

ratio

nal

part

of th

e EI

T (T

hey

have

gre

at

degr

ee o

f aut

onom

y to

the

KICs

to

defi

ne th

eir o

wn

lega

l sta

tus,

in

tern

al o

rgan

isat

ion

and

wor

king

m

etho

ds)

Dim

ensi

on: 1

: Pe

ople

; Dim

ensi

on

3: O

rgan

isat

ions

: Ex

celle

nt re

sear

ch

inst

itutio

ns;

Dim

ensi

on 4

: Fu

ndin

g W

ell-

coor

dina

ted

rese

arch

pr

ogra

mm

es a

nd

prio

ritie

s

64

Ann

ex II

. Mai

n st

akeh

olde

rs in

volv

ed in

a s

elec

ted

num

ber

of E

RA

inst

rum

ents

Stak

ehol

ders

Nam

e of

the

Inst

rum

ent

Obje

ctiv

eRo

le o

f Eur

opea

n Co

mm

issi

onCo

nsul

tatio

n pr

oces

s (if

any

)Fu

nder

sBe

nefic

iary

Gove

rnan

ceER

A di

men

sion

Artic

le 1

85 (e

x 16

9)

Supp

ort t

he in

tegr

atio

n of

nat

iona

l re

sear

ch a

ctiv

ities

that

goe

s be

yond

co

ordi

natio

n, a

nd to

ach

ieve

crit

ical

m

ass.

Impl

emen

ting

Artic

le 1

85 T

FEU

in th

e Se

vent

h Fr

amew

ork

Prog

ram

me

impl

ies

that

the

parti

cipa

ting

EU M

embe

r St

ates

inte

grat

e th

eir r

esea

rch

effo

rts b

y de

finin

g an

d co

mm

ittin

g th

emse

lves

to a

jo

int r

esea

rch

prog

ram

me,

in w

hich

the

EU p

rom

otes

the

volu

ntar

y in

tegr

atio

n of

sci

entifi

c, m

anag

eria

l and

fina

ncia

l as

pect

s.

Art.

185

enab

les

the

Com

mun

ity

to p

artic

ipat

e in

new

join

t res

earc

h pr

ogra

mm

es u

nder

take

n by

sev

eral

m

embe

r sta

tes,

as

wel

l as

to p

artic

ipat

e in

the

dedi

cate

d im

plem

enta

tion

stru

ctur

es

Co-

fund

ing

by th

e M

embe

r St

ates

and

the

Com

mun

ity,

and

prin

cipl

e of

add

ition

ality

ar

e re

spec

ted

Par

ticip

ants

: Mem

ber

Stat

es (t

hrou

gh re

spec

tive

natio

nal R

&D p

rogr

amm

es).

Othe

r cou

ntrie

s, in

pa

rticu

lar F

P7 A

ssoc

iate

d Co

untri

es, m

ay jo

in th

e jo

int

prog

ram

mes

. Ben

efici

ary

of c

alls

: res

earc

h or

gani

satio

ns, b

usin

ess

sect

or, e

tc. (

depe

nds

on

the

calls

)

The

reci

pien

t of t

he E

U fu

ndin

g in

ea

ch A

rticl

e 18

5 TF

EU (e

x Ar

ticle

16

9 TE

C) in

itiat

ive

is a

Ded

icat

ed

Impl

emen

tatio

n St

ruct

ure

(DIS

). Th

e DI

S is

resp

onsi

ble

for t

he

adm

inis

trativ

e, fi

nanc

ial a

nd

cont

ract

ual m

anag

emen

t of t

he jo

int

rese

arch

pro

gram

me

Dim

ensi

on 4

: Fu

ndin

g W

ell-

coor

dina

ted

rese

arch

pr

ogra

mm

es a

nd

prio

ritie

s

65

ERA

Fab

ric M

ap -

Firs

t Edi

tion

Stak

ehol

ders

Nam

e of

the

Inst

rum

ent

Obje

ctiv

eRo

le o

f Eur

opea

n Co

mm

issi

onCo

nsul

tatio

n pr

oces

s (if

any

)Fu

nder

sBe

nefic

iary

Gove

rnan

ceER

A di

men

sion

Join

t Tec

hnol

ogy

Initi

ativ

es (J

TIs)

JTIs

are

a m

echa

nism

for p

erfo

rmin

g re

sear

ch a

t EU

leve

l in

area

s w

here

the

tradi

tiona

l ins

trum

ents

of t

he F

ram

ewor

k Pr

ogra

mm

e (e

.g. c

olla

bora

tive

rese

arch

) ar

e no

t ade

quat

e. J

TIs

supp

ort l

arge

-sca

le

mul

tinat

iona

l res

earc

h ac

tiviti

es in

are

as

of m

ajor

inte

rest

to E

urop

ean

indu

stria

l co

mpe

titiv

enes

s an

d is

sues

of h

igh

soci

etal

rele

vanc

e.

The

Com

mis

sion

(and

the

Mem

ber

Stat

es in

thos

e ca

ses

whe

re th

ey a

re

part

of th

e Jo

int U

nder

taki

ngs)

ann

ually

co

mm

its fu

nds

from

the

rese

arch

bu

dget

. Ind

ustr

y co

mm

its m

atch

ing

in-

kind

(i.e

. non

-mon

etar

y) c

ontri

butio

ns

and

fund

s, a

mou

ntin

g to

50%

or

mor

e of

the

tota

l cos

ts o

f the

pro

ject

s un

derta

ken

to c

arry

out

the

rese

arch

.

The

Com

mis

sion

(and

the

Mem

ber S

tate

s in

thos

e ca

ses

whe

re th

ey a

re p

art

of th

e Jo

int U

nder

taki

ngs)

an

nual

ly c

omm

its fu

nds

from

the

rese

arch

bud

get.

Indu

stry

com

mits

mat

chin

g in

-kin

d (i.

e. n

on-m

onet

ary)

co

ntrib

utio

ns a

nd fu

nds,

am

ount

ing

to 5

0% o

r mor

e of

th

e to

tal c

osts

of t

he p

roje

cts

unde

rtake

n to

car

ry o

ut th

e re

sear

ch.

Who

is p

art o

f a J

TI?

T ypi

cally

the

Euro

pean

Co

mm

issi

on a

nd a

not

-fo

r-pr

ofit i

ndus

try-

led

asso

ciat

ion.

In th

e so

me

case

s, s

ome

Mem

ber

Stat

es a

re a

lso

foun

ding

m

embe

rs o

f the

se J

oint

Un

derta

king

s. S

MEs

, re

sear

ch o

rgan

isat

ions

(in

clud

ing

univ

ersi

ties)

an

d co

rpor

ate

mem

bers

ar

e al

l wel

com

e to

join

the

indu

stria

l ass

ocia

tion.

Cal

ls

for p

ropo

sals

: aca

dem

ia,

busi

ness

sec

tor (

larg

e an

d SM

Es),

prof

essi

onal

as

soci

atio

ns, r

egul

ator

y bo

dies

, pro

gram

me

man

ager

s an

d ow

ners

, in

terg

over

nmen

tal

orga

nisa

tions

, non

-for

pr

ofit o

rgan

isat

ions

. Or

gani

satio

ns in

cou

ntrie

s as

soci

ated

to th

e Se

vent

h Fr

amew

ork

Prog

ram

me

are

also

elig

ible

to a

pply

fo

r fun

ding

. App

licat

ions

fro

m o

rgan

isat

ions

bas

ed

in o

ther

cou

ntrie

s ar

e as

sess

ed o

n a

case

-by-

case

bas

is.

JTIs

are

long

-ter

m P

ublic

-Priv

ate

Partn

ersh

ips

and

are

man

aged

w

ithin

ded

icat

ed s

truct

ures

bas

ed

on A

rticl

e 18

7 TF

EU (e

x Ar

ticle

171

TE

C). T

hey

are

inde

pend

ent l

egal

en

titie

s th

at m

anag

e re

sear

ch

proj

ects

in a

n in

tegr

ated

way

, w

ith in

dust

ry jo

inin

g fo

rces

with

ot

her s

take

hold

ers.

hey

org

anis

e ca

lls fo

r pro

posa

ls, o

vers

ee

sele

ctio

n pr

oced

ures

and

put

in

plac

e co

ntra

ctua

l arr

ange

men

ts

for p

roje

cts

set u

p to

impl

emen

t th

e JT

I res

earc

h ag

enda

. The

y th

us a

llow

fund

s fro

m d

iffer

ent

sour

ces

to b

e jo

intly

man

aged

an

d th

ey a

re re

spon

sibl

e fo

r th

e re

late

d co

mm

unic

atio

n an

d di

ssem

inat

ion

activ

ities

. Eac

h JT

I in

clud

es a

Gov

erni

ng B

oard

, an

Exec

utiv

e Di

rect

or a

s w

ell a

s ot

her

bodi

es, i

nclu

ding

adv

isor

y bo

dies

, de

pend

ing

on it

s sp

ecifi

c op

erat

iona

l an

d go

vern

ance

nee

ds.

Dim

ensi

on

3. R

esea

rch

orga

nisa

tions

an

d Di

men

sion

4.

Fun

ding

Wel

l-co

ordi

nate

d re

sear

ch

prog

ram

mes

and

pr

iorit

ies

66

Ann

ex II

. Mai

n st

akeh

olde

rs in

volv

ed in

a s

elec

ted

num

ber

of E

RA

inst

rum

ents

Stak

ehol

ders

Nam

e of

the

Inst

rum

ent

Obje

ctiv

eRo

le o

f Eur

opea

n Co

mm

issi

onCo

nsul

tatio

n pr

oces

s (if

any

)Fu

nder

sBe

nefic

iary

Gove

rnan

ceER

A di

men

sion

Join

t Pro

gram

min

g In

itiat

ives

(JPI

s)

To p

ool n

atio

nal r

esea

rch

effo

rts in

or

der t

o m

ake

bette

r use

of E

urop

e’s

prec

ious

pub

lic R

&D re

sour

ces

and

to

tack

le c

omm

on E

urop

ean

chal

leng

es

mor

e ef

fect

ivel

y in

a fe

w k

ey a

reas

. It

follo

ws

a st

ruct

ured

stra

tegi

c pr

oces

s w

here

by M

embe

r Sta

tes

agre

e co

mm

on

visi

ons

and

stra

tegi

c re

sear

ch a

gend

as to

ad

dres

s m

ajor

soc

ieta

l cha

lleng

es.

The

Com

mis

sion

mad

e pr

opos

als

to

laun

ch J

oint

Pro

gram

min

g in

rese

arch

in

Jul

y 20

08 in

a C

omm

unic

atio

n en

title

d To

war

ds J

oint

Pro

gram

min

g in

Re

sear

ch: W

orki

ng to

geth

er to

tack

le

com

mon

cha

lleng

es m

ore

effe

ctiv

ely.

The

Com

mis

sion

reco

mm

ends

a li

mite

d nu

mbe

r of a

reas

in w

hich

to im

plem

ent

Join

t Pro

gram

min

g. T

he C

omm

issi

on

faci

litat

es th

e id

entifi

catio

n pr

oces

s an

d, if

they

so

wis

h su

ppor

t Mem

ber

Stat

es fo

r Joi

nt P

rogr

amm

ing

as

nece

ssar

y.

Thes

e pr

opos

als

mad

e by

the

EC w

ere

base

d no

tabl

y on

the

resu

lts o

f the

pub

lic

cons

ulta

tion

follo

win

g th

e Co

mm

issi

on

Gree

n Pa

per o

f Apr

il 20

07

Mem

ber S

tate

s pa

rtici

patin

g an

d EC

(Fin

anci

ng s

uppo

rt ac

tions

to th

eir m

anag

emen

t)

Parti

cipa

tion

of M

embe

r St

ates

in e

ach

initi

ativ

e “à

la c

arte

”, b

ased

on

volu

ntar

y co

mm

itmen

ts

lead

ing

to p

artn

ersh

ips

com

pose

d of

var

iabl

e gr

oups

of c

ount

ries

High

Lev

el G

roup

for J

oint

Pr

ogra

mm

ing

(GPC

’s m

embe

rs a

re

seni

or o

ffici

als

from

Mem

ber S

tate

s an

d th

e Co

mm

issi

on. C

ount

ries

asso

ciat

ed to

the

Fram

ewor

k Pr

ogra

mm

e m

ay p

artic

ipat

e in

th

e gr

oup.

The

GPC

is c

haire

d by

a m

embe

r rep

rese

ntin

g th

e Pr

esid

ency

-in-o

ffice

). Ea

ch J

PI is

ty

pica

lly m

anag

ed b

y M

anag

emen

t Bo

ard,

Exe

cutiv

e Bo

ard,

Sci

entifi

c Ad

viso

ry B

oard

and

a S

ecre

taria

t

Dim

ensi

on 4

. Fu

ndin

g W

ell-

coor

dina

ted

rese

arch

pr

ogra

mm

es a

nd

prio

ritie

s

67

ERA

Fab

ric M

ap -

Firs

t Edi

tion

Stak

ehol

ders

Nam

e of

the

Inst

rum

ent

Obje

ctiv

eRo

le o

f Eur

opea

n Co

mm

issi

onCo

nsul

tatio

n pr

oces

s (if

any

)Fu

nder

sBe

nefic

iary

Gove

rnan

ceER

A di

men

sion

Inte

rnat

iona

l Co

oper

atio

n (C

apac

ities

)

Link

ERA

to o

ther

rese

arch

are

as in

the

wor

ld;

Coor

dina

te S

&T p

olic

ies

and

coop

erat

ion

incl

udin

g pr

iorit

y se

tting

Desi

gn a

nd fu

nd th

e in

stru

men

t; pa

rtici

pate

in a

nd u

se th

e po

licy

dial

ogue

; fol

low

-up

on

E

urop

ean

Com

mis

sion

(via

th

e Fr

amew

ork

Prog

ram

me)

Bene

ficia

ries

rece

ivin

g th

e gr

ant:

typi

cally

con

sorti

a of

Min

istri

es, f

undi

ng

agen

cies

, age

ncie

s su

ppor

ting

the

Min

istri

es in

ex

tern

al s

cien

ce p

olic

ies,

NC

P bo

dies

; Ta

rget

gro

up (t

arge

ted

by

the

INCO

-Net

s):

Eur

opea

n Co

mm

issi

on;

Euro

pean

Mem

ber S

tate

s (m

ostly

sci

ence

min

istri

es);

Partn

er re

gion

cou

ntrie

s

(sci

ence

min

istri

es);

Thro

ugh

mor

e co

ordi

natio

n an

d a

bette

r fun

ding

su

ppor

t,

bene

ficia

ries

are

ultim

atel

y:

prog

ram

me

owne

rs a

nd

man

ager

s;

scie

ntis

ts/u

nive

rsiti

es/

RTOs

/SM

Es

The

Euro

pean

Com

mis

sion

fund

s IN

CO-N

ets

as C

oord

inat

ion

and

Supp

ort A

ctio

ns w

ithin

FP7

; The

pr

ojec

ts th

emse

lves

are

coo

rdin

ated

by

Mem

ber S

tate

Min

istri

es

or a

genc

ies

with

a m

anda

te

to re

pres

ent t

he M

inis

try

and

impl

emen

t/sup

port

natio

nal s

cien

ce

polic

y.

Dim

ensi

on 5

. In

tern

atio

nal

Coop

erat

ion:

A

wid

e op

enin

g of

the

ERA

to th

e w

orld

; Di

men

sion

4. W

ell

coor

dina

ted

rese

arch

pr

ogra

mm

es a

nd

prio

ritie

s; D

imen

sion

1.

Peo

ple:

An

adeq

uate

flow

of

com

pete

nt

rese

arch

ers

68

Ann

ex II

. Mai

n st

akeh

olde

rs in

volv

ed in

a s

elec

ted

num

ber

of E

RA

inst

rum

ents

Stak

ehol

ders

Nam

e of

the

Inst

rum

ent

Obje

ctiv

eRo

le o

f Eur

opea

n Co

mm

issi

onCo

nsul

tatio

n pr

oces

s (if

any

)Fu

nder

sBe

nefic

iary

Gove

rnan

ceER

A di

men

sion

Euro

pean

Reg

iona

l De

velo

pmen

t Fun

d (E

RDF)

The

ERDF

aim

s to

stre

ngth

en e

cono

mic

an

d so

cial

coh

esio

n in

the

Euro

pean

Un

ion

by c

orre

ctin

g im

bala

nces

bet

wee

n its

regi

ons.

It fi

nanc

es: d

irect

aid

to

inve

stm

ents

in c

ompa

nies

(in

parti

cula

r SM

Es) t

o cr

eate

sus

tain

able

jobs

; in

frast

ruct

ures

link

ed n

otab

ly to

rese

arch

an

d in

nova

tion,

tele

com

mun

icat

ions

, en

viro

nmen

t, en

ergy

and

tran

spor

t; fin

anci

al in

stru

men

ts (c

apita

l ris

k fu

nds,

lo

cal d

evel

opm

ent f

unds

, etc

.) to

sup

port

regi

onal

and

loca

l dev

elop

men

t and

to

fost

er c

oope

ratio

n be

twee

n to

wns

an

d re

gion

s; te

chni

cal a

ssis

tanc

e m

easu

res.

The

ERD

F ca

n in

terv

ene

in

the

thre

e ob

ject

ives

of r

egio

nal p

olic

y:

conv

erge

nce,

regi

onal

com

petit

iven

ess

and

empl

oym

ent;

and

Euro

pean

terr

itoria

l co

oper

atio

n

Co-f

unde

r. Co

hesi

on p

olic

y do

es n

ot

fund

indi

vidu

al p

roje

cts.

Inst

ead,

it

fund

s m

ulti-

annu

al n

atio

nal

prog

ram

mes

alig

ned

on E

U ob

ject

ives

an

d pr

iorit

ies.

The

Com

mis

sion

pay

s th

e ce

rtifie

d ex

pend

iture

to e

ach

coun

try.

The

Com

mis

sion

mon

itors

eac

h op

erat

iona

l pro

gram

me,

alo

ngsi

de th

e co

untr

y co

ncer

ned.

Com

pani

es, S

MEs

, reg

iona

l an

d lo

cal o

rgan

isat

ions

and

au

thor

ities

from

Mem

ber

Stat

es, s

ocia

l par

tner

s an

d or

gani

satio

ns fr

om c

ivil

soci

ety

(this

fund

is h

eavi

ly

conc

entra

ted

in th

e re

gion

s w

ith lo

wes

t GDP

/hea

d).

Prin

cipl

es o

f sha

red

man

agem

ent.

Regi

onal

pol

icy

invo

lves

all

leve

ls o

f sc

ale

from

EU

to lo

cal.

Each

cou

ntry

pr

oduc

es a

nat

iona

l stra

tegi

c re

fere

nce

fram

ewor

k (N

SRF)

, whi

ch

outli

nes

the

coun

try’

s st

rate

gy

and

prop

oses

a li

st o

f ope

ratio

nal

prog

ram

mes

(OP)

. The

Com

mis

sion

va

lidat

es th

e NS

RF a

nd th

e OP

s.

The

oper

atio

nal p

rogr

amm

es a

re

impl

emen

ted

by th

e m

embe

r co

untri

es a

nd th

eir r

egio

ns. T

his

wor

k is

org

anis

ed b

y ‘m

anag

emen

t au

thor

ities

’ in

each

cou

ntry

and

/or

regi

on

All

dim

ensi

ons(

cohe

sion

po

licy)

69

ERA

Fab

ric M

ap -

Firs

t Edi

tion

Stak

ehol

ders

Nam

e of

the

Inst

rum

ent

Obje

ctiv

eRo

le o

f Eur

opea

n Co

mm

issi

onCo

nsul

tatio

n pr

oces

s (if

any

)Fu

nder

sBe

nefic

iary

Gove

rnan

ceER

A di

men

sion

Euro

pean

Soc

ial F

und

(ESF

)

The

ESF

sets

out

to im

prov

e em

ploy

men

t an

d jo

b op

portu

nitie

s in

the

Euro

pean

Un

ion.

It in

terv

enes

in th

e fra

mew

ork

of th

e Co

nver

genc

e an

d Re

gion

al

Com

petit

iven

ess

and

Empl

oym

ent

obje

ctiv

es. T

he E

SF s

uppo

rts a

ctio

ns in

M

embe

r Sta

tes

in th

e fo

llow

ing

area

s:

adap

ting

wor

kers

and

ent

erpr

ises

: lif

elon

g le

arni

ng s

chem

es, d

esig

ning

an

d sp

read

ing

inno

vativ

e w

orki

ng

orga

nisa

tions

; acc

ess

to e

mpl

oym

ent f

or

job

seek

ers,

the

unem

ploy

ed, w

omen

an

d m

igra

nts;

soc

ial i

nteg

ratio

n of

di

sadv

anta

ged

peop

le a

nd c

omba

ting

disc

rimin

atio

n in

the

job

mar

ket

stre

ngth

enin

g hu

man

cap

ital b

y re

form

ing

educ

atio

n sy

stem

s an

d se

tting

up

a ne

twor

k of

teac

hing

est

ablis

hmen

ts.

Co-f

unde

r

EU fi

nanc

ial s

uppo

rt al

way

s ru

ns a

long

side

nat

iona

l pu

blic

or p

rivat

e fin

anci

ng

(co-

fund

ing)

. The

leve

l of E

U in

terv

entio

n is

link

ed w

ith

the

situ

atio

n on

the

grou

nd.

Depe

ndin

g on

a n

umbe

r of

soc

io-e

cono

mic

fact

ors,

th

e co

-fina

ncin

g m

ay v

ary

betw

een

50%

and

85%

of t

he

tota

l cos

t of i

nter

vent

ions

.

Parti

cipa

nts

in E

SF p

roje

cts

are

peop

le w

ho ta

ke p

art

in p

roje

cts

and

bene

fit

from

them

, for

exa

mpl

e by

re

ceiv

ing

train

ing

in n

ew

skill

s or

gui

danc

e on

how

to

get

a jo

b. O

rgan

isat

ions

an

d bu

sine

sses

can

als

o be

pa

rtici

pant

s in

ESF

pro

ject

s,

for e

xam

ple

thro

ugh

train

ing

cour

ses

on n

ew

skill

s fo

r the

ir w

orkf

orce

, or

hel

p fo

r man

agem

ent

on n

ew w

orki

ng p

ract

ices

. Pu

blic

adm

inis

tratio

ns,

NGOs

and

soc

ial p

artn

ers

activ

e in

the

field

of

empl

oym

ent a

nd s

ocia

l in

clus

ion.

Prin

cipl

es o

f sha

red

man

agem

ent.

Regi

onal

pol

icy

invo

lves

all

leve

ls o

f sc

ale

from

EU

to lo

cal.

Each

cou

ntry

pr

oduc

es a

nat

iona

l stra

tegi

c re

fere

nce

fram

ewor

k (N

SRF)

, whi

ch

outli

nes

the

coun

try’

s st

rate

gy

and

prop

oses

a li

st o

f ope

ratio

nal

prog

ram

mes

(OP)

. The

Com

mis

sion

va

lidat

es th

e NS

RF a

nd th

e OP

s.

The

oper

atio

nal p

rogr

amm

es a

re

impl

emen

ted

by th

e m

embe

r co

untri

es a

nd th

eir r

egio

ns. T

his

wor

k is

org

anis

ed b

y ‘m

anag

emen

t au

thor

ities

’ in

each

cou

ntry

and

/or

regi

on

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