On 4 and 5 December 2024, ERA-LEARN and the European Commission will co-organise the third European Partnership Stakeholder Forum. The Forum “20 years of European Partnerships: Reflecting on the past – Shaping the Future” will highlight the achievements of the European Partnerships, while also addressing important challenges and strategic discussions on the way to the 10^th Framework Programme.

The Forum is expected to attract over 250 participants 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. Beside the plenary sessions there will be parallel workshops organized along clusters that are co-developed together with the European Partnerships.

Further details will be available soon. Registration will open in mid-September on the ERA-LEARN website.

The European Commission is pleased to invite you to attend the online launch event of the 2^nd Biennial Monitoring Report (BMR) on Partnerships under Horizon Europe on 19 September, 15:00-17:30 CET.

The BMR aims to provide a strong evidence base to guide the implementation of partnerships and inform strategic discussions on the effectiveness of the new policy approach to European Partnerships and, where relevant, how this should evolve. This is the second in a series of four BMRs planned to be published in 2022, 2024, 2026 and 2028.

The event will consist in:

1. a presentation of the key findings of the report by the Commission and Expert Group on support of the strategic coordinating process.
2. a panel discussion on “the contribution of European Partnerships to the EU priorities and the BMR as a monitoring tool”. The panel includes the chair of the former expert group, a country representative from the partnership knowledge hub (Norway), a representative of the Sustainable Blue Economy partnership (Co-funded) and a representative of the Made in Europe partnership (co-programmed).

Participants will be able to ask questions and make comments through Slido on the key findings and on the panel discussion. 

Please do not hesitate to share this invitation with your network and we look forward to your participation.

The Annual Report on Public-Public Partnerships 2023 has now been published. It has been prepared by the ERA-LEARN project team using data provided by the P2P networks. The report provides an acknowledgement and celebration of 20 years of Public-to-Public Partnerships, reflecting on how they have developed and grown over the last 20 years and the wider impact they have had. It also highlights the work of ERA-LEARN during 2023 and provides an updated picture of the evolving P2P landscape in relation to calls, committed budgets and transnational projects. The report celebrates the commitment of P2Ps over the last 20 years, the leverage effects of EU funding and the continuing national commitment to advancement of the ERA.

In June, the European Commission, together with ERA-LEARN, organised a physical workshop to gain a deeper understanding of the current administrative burdens of European Partnerships.

Participants discussed the current administrative processes for European Partnerships and how to limit the burden both in the current and in the next Framework Programme (FP10).

The workshop report, presentations and survey results are now available online.

The strategic approach of Horizon Europe foresees a number of additional activities to be carried out by the European Partnerships. They are also required to address various cross-cutting issues, such as strategic foresight or market uptake. The ERA-LEARN website provides guidance on these issues and has been updated to better reflect recent developments. The newly updated ERA-LEARN website section on cross-cutting issues and additional activities contains a number of useful updates:

• Easier to navigate structure and revised content headlines.
• New pages covering aspects such as knowledge valorisation, gender and inclusion, typology of synergies, synergies with EU missions.
• Revised content of existing pages, covering aspects such as SRIA creation, foresight, openness and transparency, widening participation and international cooperation.
• New examples of good practices and updated references for learning materials.

INSPIRING ERA is organising a conference on 18 September 2024 in Brussels (Belgium) on the European Research Area (ERA). Dive into insightful panel discussions on what drives research and innovation forward. With participants from all over Europe and representing diverse fields of action, this conference offers a great opportunity to connect, learn from one another, and collectively shape the future of the ERA Policy Agenda.

On-site attendance will be limited, but all plenary sessions will be livestreamed with opportunities for virtual interaction on the INSPIRING ERA website.

ERA-LEARN shut down its X / Twitter channel in June 2024 due to the rise of fake news, hate speech and toxic behaviour on the platform. X / Twitter, its owner Elon Musk and the community as a whole no longer reflect the values of an open and tolerant society that ERA-LEARN stands for. The European Commission found that the platform allegedly deceived its users and violated European Union rules on digital content by lacking transparency. As a result, ERA-LEARN has closed the channel and will focus its social media activities on our LinkedIn channel.