Inhalt: In 2014, two years after the adoption of its Communication on ‘A reinforced European Research
Area (ERA) partnership for Excellence and Growth’1, the Commission reported that Member States
and research stakeholders had made good progress in delivering the ERA. However, more efforts
were needed to make ERA work, notably through the implementation of necessary ERA reforms in
Member States and Associated Countries2.
The ERA evolves around six priorities:
· More effective national research systems;
· Optimal transnational co-operation and competition, including ‘optimal transnational
cooperation and competition’ and ‘Research Infrastructures’;
· An open labour market for researchers;
· Gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research;
· Optimal circulation, access to and transfer of scientific knowledge, including ‘Knowledge
circulation’ and ‘Open Access’;
· International cooperation.
In May 2015, the European Council reaffirmed its commitment to a fully operational ERA and
endorsed the ERA Roadmap 2015-2020, a living document to guide Member States in structuring
their implementation of the ERA priorities at national level. It called on Member States to
implement the ERA Roadmap through appropriate measures in ERA national action plans (NAPs)
and strategies. Monitoring of ERA Roadmap implementation would be integrated into the ERA
Progress Report 2016, on the basis of headline indicators proposed by the European Research and
Innovation Advisory Committee3.
To date, 24 Member States and five Associated Countries have adopted an ERA national action plan
2015-2020, and it is expected that all Member States will have their action plans approved in the
near future. As the drivers of national ERA policy reforms, these NAPs give a rich insight into all
forthcoming ERA strategies and corresponding policy measures in the Member States and
Associated Countries.
The present ERA Progress Report 2016 summarises the state of play of ERA and the progress on
ERA implementation over the period 2014-20164. For the first time progress on ERA has been
measured for each country on each priority, on the basis of the ERA Monitoring Mechanism, a set of
24 core indicators jointly defined by Member States, research stakeholders and the Commission.
The report also provides a first insight into the development of the ERA priorities, their link to the
ERA Roadmap 2015-2020 and the main areas targeted in the ERA NAPs. The table at the end of
the document provides the growth rates on the headline indicators.
An accompanying Staff Working Document and the report 'Data gathering and information for the
2016 ERA monitoring' by Science-Metrix5 provides quantitative data on a set of indicators with
additional policy relevant qualitative information.
Schlagwörter:Europäischer Forschungsraum; Forscherin; Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik; Gleichstellung in der EU; Kooperation; Mobilität; Monitoring; Open Access
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht