23 Jan 2024
EC launches ERA Policy Platform
The European Commission has launched its new ERA Policy Platform, a dedicated one-stop-shop, providing a comprehensive overview of current ERA policies, activities and achievements. The platform was presented on 22 January 2024.
Since 2000, the ERA is the joint ambition of the EU Member States and the European Commission (in close cooperation with countries associated to the R&I Framework Programmes and R&I stakeholders) to establish a single, borderless market for research, innovation and technology across Europe. This goal was enshrined in Article 179 of the Lisbon Treaty.
The ERA Policy Platform is part of the new ERA governance framework and the Pact for Research and Innovation (R&I) in Europe. This platform will:
- provide up-to-date information about the state of implementation of the ERA Policy Agenda and its joint actions;
- give insights into EU-wide activities contributing to make progress on the ERA;
- feature all the elements of the ERA monitoring mechanism, including interactive graphs showing the progress on ERA priorities as reported in the ERA Scoreboard and the ERA Dashboard;
- offer a repository of key ERA-related documents and reports available to the public;
- serve as a central space for communicating between all actors interested in advancing the ERA objectives.
The EC states that EU Member States, Associated Countries and R&I Stakeholder organisations will be able to contribute to the content of the website, thus also efficiently supporting the ERA monitoring system by sharing information, data or documents relevant for assessing the state-of-play on the various ERA actions, both at national and EU-level. The target group of the platform comprises national authorities, R&I stakeholders (organisations or individual researchers), but also interested citizens.
The platform should not be a static tool, but the Commission intends to further improve its features, its visual appearance, and its content to ensure a much stronger visibility of the achievements in establishing the ERA.
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