The European Commission has published the Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) of the co-programmed European Partnerships. Together with industry, the European Commission is working in these eleven partnerships to boost investment in research and innovation and to address the major challenges in the areas of climate and sustainability. These partnerships will receive around EUR 7.8 billion from Horizon Europe. In total, the European Commission and private partners commited around EUR 19 billion.

The second wave of the 49 European Partnerships of the first Strategic Plan of Horizon Europe is being prepared for the work programme 2023/2024. Commissioner Gabriel will contact Member States and Associated Countries to request their commitments to European Partnerships with MS/AC involvement by end of April 2022. These partnerships include: Pandemic Preparedness, Rare Diseases, Personalised Medicine, One Health AMR, Accelerating Farming Systems Transition, Animal Health and Welfare, Agriculture of Data, Sustainable Food Systems.

As part of a series of Country Reports on the performance in publicly funded partnerships, ERA-LEARN has published the Country Report Germany. The report discusses the performance of Germany, which is also compared to that of France, Italy, Spain and Sweden. Germany is the leader in terms of engagement and performance in public R&I partnerships. This is due to a well-funded national R&I system with world- famous research actors whose expertise covers a wide range of research areas. Although the funds committed per researcher are not that large, Germany makes the largest investment in comparison to the other countries, even though the funds made available are considered limited in some cases. German researchers appreciate the opportunities offered by partnerships for international collaboration and clearly see the added value of partnerships in relation to national programmes or Horizon 2020. The new approach to partnerships is a clear improvement in relation to the past, although certain challenges in implementation are anticipated. In the past, ERA-LEARN published Country Reports on Norway, Finland, Belgium, Spain, Austria and Poland.

On 3 February 2022, DG Research & Innovation, in collaboration with ERA-LEARN, organised a workshop dedicated to the participation of Associated Countries in the European Partnerships. It provided an opportunity to explain the European Partnerships from the perspective of an Associated Country and address specific questions of 120 participants. You can find the presentations of the workshop including a summary of the Q&A sessions on the ERA-LEARN website.

On 16 December 2021, ERA-LEARN offered a webinar on ERA-NET Cofund final reporting, including information about the financial certificate (CFS). Please note, that for cash-based ERA-NET Cofunds, costs for the CFS (even in case of a mandatory CFS) cannot be reported due to legal constrains. Therefore, in practice, any costs of producing a mandatory CFS, should be covered by the respective funding organisations or by an internal agreement among the consortium. You can find the presentations of the workshop including a summary of the Q&A session on the ERA-LEARN Website.

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