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Policy Analysis: Investment, IP, Policy
Published: 19 July 2012
Commission launches new push to complete the European Research Area

Peter Koekoek, Science|Business

After twelve years horsetrading, a voluntary agreement between the European Commission and Europe’s research bodies aims to get 27 national research systems functioning as one, and complete the European Research Area (ERA)


DG Research Director-General Smits and EU Research Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn watch as Lesley Wilson of the European University Association (EUA) signs the ERA agreement. Image: EC

EU Research Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn signed an agreement with a broad swathe of Europe’s research funding bodies this week, in an attempt to glue together the European Research Area and open up a single market for research jobs and scientific data in time for the start of Horizon 2020  – the EU’s new €80 billion research funding plan - in 2014.

“We want to ensure that researchers can move as freely between Rome and Riga,...

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Related subjects: European Research Area, Open access, Horizon 2020

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