Socio-economic Benefits of the European Research Area

The mandate given to the High-level Panel on Socio-economic Benefits of the European Research Area was to identify the socio-economic benefits expected from a fully functioning European Research Area, and thus to support the proposal for the ERA framework by clearly and convincingly presenting a case for these overall socio-economic benefits of a fully functioning ERA. The issue at stake is not a dilemma between ERA and not ERA. It concerns the additional benefits gained from a strengthened ERA.