European Partnership Stakeholder Forum 2024: 20 years of European Partnerships: Reflecting on the past – Shaping the Future

ERA-LEARN and the European Commission co-organised the third European Partnership Stakeholder Forum on 4 and 5 December 2024 in Brussels.

The Partnership Stakeholder Forum “20 years of European Partnerships: Reflecting on the past – Shaping the Future” brought together the whole community of Co-funded, Co-programmed and Institutionalised Partnerships’ stakeholders. The Forum in 2024 highlighted the achievements of the European Partnerships, while also addressing important challenges and strategic discussions on the way to the 10th Framework Programme.

2024 marked the twentieth anniversary of the launch of the first partnerships, the so-called ERA-NETs back in FP6. For the last two decades, these partnerships have contributed significantly to the development of the ERA. They have managed to mobilise and connect substantive resources across Europe to address common challenges both in the societal and economic realm. A great deal has been achieved, especially in terms of enhancing transnational collaboration in research and mobilising national resources. Partnerships play a vital role in both responding to urgent needs as well as the EU strategic goals.

While implementation challenges are identified and efforts are oriented towards solving those, the next Framework Programme is at our doorstep. What is certain is that in the challenging future that lays ahead of us, the European Partnerships and the spirit of trust and collaboration they have been achieving is an effective means of addressing the challenges that cross our national borders and the strategic goals of the EU.

The Forum attracted more than 400 participants (in presence and online) from European Partnerships, from national and regional governments, public funding agencies, the private sector and other R&I policy makers involved in the design and implementation of European Partnerships.

Slides

Download: Plenary Slides Day 1

Download: Plenary Slides Day 2

Download: Loop Slides from TVs (Partnerships at a glance) 

Conference Report

Download: Summary Results of the European Partnership Stakeholder Forum 2024

A detailed forum report will be published on the ERA-LEARN website in January 2025.

Recordings

Plenary Day 1

Plenary Day 2

New ERA-LEARN Brochure celebrating two Decades of European Partnerships

Over the past twenty years, European Partnerships have evolved into an impactful R&I policy instrument. With over 30,000 participations and over 6,000 projects, they have addressed grand challenges through a broad range of transformation-oriented research and innovation activities. As a tribute to the achievements of this period, the brochure showcases more than twenty impact stories of Partnerships over their 20-year existence.

Download the brochure: Two Decades of European Partnerships - Our Achievements

Agenda

BluePoint Brussels, Bd. A. Reyers Ln 80, 1030 Brussels

04 December 2024, European Partnership Stakeholder Forum 2024, Day 1

12:00 - 14:00	Registration, welcome lunch and bilateral talk
13:45 - 14:00	Pre-Start: European Partnership Pitches - Innovative Health Initiative - Photonics
14:00 - 14:30	Welcome address Ekaterina Zaharieva, Commissioner for start-ups, research and innovation Keynote speeches Giorgio Gori (EP), Vice-Chair of the ITRE Committee László Bódis, Deputy State Secretary for Innovation, representative of the Hungarian Presidency
14:30 - 15:30	20 years of European Partnerships – reflections and achievements Panel discussion Daria Julkowska, Chair of the former expert group - BMR24’ Ute Gunsenheimer, Secretary General of the EOSC Association Wolfgang Ballensiefen, Coordinator EP PerMed, DLR  Rosalinde van der Vlies, DG RTD, Director, DIR. C Moderation:  Fabienne Gautier, DG RTD, Head of Unit G.4 Missions and Partnerships
15:30 - 16:00	Networking coffee
16:00 - 17:30	Parallel workshops along Clusters
	A1: Cluster 1: Health	A3: Cluster 5: Climate, Energy, Mobility
	A2: Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space	A4: Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy and Natural resources, Agriculture and Environment
17:30 - 19:00	Bilateral talks / Networking dinner

05 December 2024, European Partnership Stakeholder Forum 2024, Day 2

09:00 - 09:30	Registration and coffee
09:30 - 10:45	Parallel workshops – improvements for FP10
	B1: Partnership portfolio building: how to develop a coherent and strategic partnership landscape?
	B2: Instrument design: how to foster simplification and effectiveness/efficiency?
	B3: Multi-actor collaborations for transformative resilience and longterm impact
10:45 - 11:15	Networking coffee
11:15 - 11:30	Pre-Start: European Partnership Pitches - Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership - EIT Manufacturing
11:30 - 11:45	Main takeaways of parallel sessions and wrap up
	European Partnerships: Shaping the Future - Outlook to the next Framework Programme
11:45 - 12:00	Presentation of the PKH opinion on FP10 by the Co-chair  Alexander Grablowitz, PKH Co-Chair
12:00 - 13:00	Panel discussion/ High-level round-table Joanna Drake, DG RTD, Deputy Director-General for Research and Innovation Alexander Grablowitz, PKH Co-Chair Axel Krein, Executive Director of Clean Aviation (JU) Muriel Attané, Secretary General of EARTO  Maria Chiara Carrozza, President of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) Martin Kern, Director EIT Moderation: Fabienne Gautier, DG RTD, Head of Unit G.4 Missions and Partnerships
13:00 - 14:00	Networking lunch

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