Towards Joint Programming
European national research programmes are amongst the first and best in the world, but they are not able to tackle some of today's major societal challenges. This is mainly because they are developed and implemented in an isolated way, on a national basis. 85% of European public research funding is invested in programmes conceived, developed and implemented nationally without any transnational coordination or competition. Only 15% is invested through intergovernmental organisations (such as CERN) or programmes such as EUREKA, or programmed jointly in the Community's Research Framework Programme. The lack of cross border programme collaboration has made it difficult to address such common challenges jointly. Therefore, in 2008, the Commission adopted a Communication on Joint Programming between EU Member States of their public research programmes entitled: "Towards Joint Programming in Research: Working together to tackle common challenges more effectively". The proposals for themes targeted by JP will probably be known in summer 2009, while selection and recommendations and implementations will take place in 2010. Some themes which have already been indicated as possibly relevant for JP are:
• Climate change;
• Ageing population;
• Securing the supply of energy;
• Securing water supply;
• Ensuring food quality and availability;
• Monetary economy;
• Safeguarding citizen security.
Internet: http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/specific-era-initiatives_en...
Posted on: 11.06.2009