The European Commission, DG RTD, and ERA-LEARN co-organised the third edition of the Partnership Stakeholder Forum “20 Years of European Partnerships: Reflecting on the Past – Shaping the Future” in Brussels on 04 and 05 December 2024.

The event brought together more than 400 stakeholders of Co-funded, Co-programmed and Institutionalised Partnerships’ in presence and online. The Forum 2024 highlighted the achievements of the European Partnerships, while also addressing important challenges and strategic discussions on the way to the 10th Framework Programme.

The importance of the event was underlined by the first public appearance of Ekaterina Zaharieva, the new EU Commissioner for Start-ups, Research and Innovation. Recordings of the plenary sessions, slides and a summary report are now available. A full conference report will follow soon.

The ERA-LEARN Country Reports analyse the participation of countries in European Partnerships. They are based on data available in the ERA-LEARN database and a series of interviews with key stakeholders in the country, including individual researchers who have benefited from projects supported by the Partnerships. While the original country report on Austria was published in 2019, an updated version has now been published.

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.