The European Commission has published a draft report on coherence and synergies of candidate European Partnerships that takes into account inputs from Commission services that are involved with partnerships.

The aim of this exercise is to develop a common understanding on operationalising coherence and synergies and make sure they are fully reflected in the next steps of preparation.

The ERA-LEARN Country Reports provide an analysis of European R&I partnership participation and try to explain the performance of a country in transnational collaboration within the context of the overall situation in the national research and innovation system and comparing the particular country with a number of other countries of interest, as well as the EU averages.

These reports are useful for individual organisations in the specific country as they might only have a fragmented picture of the situation or they might lack explanations for certain features that may be found in the wider R&I context. The reports are also useful for organisations in other countries that wish to learn the reasons behind the position or role of a particular country and/or learn from other countries' exemplary performances.

ERA-LEARN has published a new Report on Inclusiveness in European R&I Partnership Programme. The report presents the results of an ERA-LEARN survey on inclusiveness targeted at H2020 ERA-NET Cofund and EJP Cofund Programme coordinators. The goal of the survey was to collect information on measures introduced by H2020 ERA-NET Cofund and EJP Cofund Programmes, in order to enhance the participation of the ‘Widening Countries’.

The survey results demonstrate that participation of Widening Countries in EU Partnerships is limited and actions are needed to strengthen it. However, only by introducing a systematic portfolio of Widening measures throughout the entire Programme cycle, the expected outcome can be obtained, namely a larger number of funded projects including organisations from Widening Countries.