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Research Information Centre	Updated: Nov-23-2009

Several of the 44 projects identified by ESFRI as priority research infrastructures belong to longrecognised centres of excellence like ESO (photo 1). Others represent new initiatives (photos 2, 3, 4).© ESO

Sanctuaries of research
In the race for global excellence, the European Research Area needs to develop infrastructures that can match the challenges ahead. The roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures consists of 44 selected projects. The start of a long story...
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

The new era of the knowledge society was symbolised at the Lisbon conference by this strange mutant bearing the holy grail of research and innovation. © European Commission

Did you say Lisbon?
Has the Lisbon strategy failed? On one of its main aims, to invest 3% of the gross domestic product in research, there has been little progress. But focusing on this criterion is to risk forgetting that deeper and less quantifiable changes are at work, generated by the reforms that Lisbon has brought.
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

More effective together
Being at the forefront of innovation and competitiveness: a goal Europe can achieve only through effective collaboration.
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

A package of measures
The industrial revolution led to a loss of natural habitats, deforestation and an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The result was climate change and loss of biodiversity. To reverse this trend, the entire European Research Area must be mobilised.
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

Rethinking agricultural research
European agriculture emits too much greenhouse gas, consumes too much fossil fuel and uses up natural resources faster than they can be renewed. Intensive production methods based on petrochemicals and mechanisation have reached their limits. It is time to reform the system. After many years of being relegated to the wings, European agricultural research is once again centre-stage.
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

Putting innovation into practice
Promoting collaboration between researchers and building bridges between academic research and the business world are not only good ways of promoting innovation, they also harness international excellence and make innovation available to all Europeans.
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

“There is only strength through unity”
It is now nearly 10 years since the European Research Area was launched. What progress has been made? And what remains to be done in building a Europe-wide research system that is coherent and complementary? José-Manuel Silva Rodriguez, head of the DG Research at the European Commission, explains.
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

Shaping the European research of tomorrow
The Commission, committed to help Member States better coordinate their research efforts, organised a seminar on 2 June on forward-looking activities which underpin future European research policy. Experts, representatives of the public sector and directors of DG Research attempted to identify the needs in this field. Anneli Pauili is the deputy Director-General of DG Research. She reflects on the seminar and future forward-looking activities.
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

Where are the frontiers of research?
Will the European Research Area one day open its borders? In any event, it is aspiring to have an international dimension. The creation of a new partnership between Member States and the Commission and the creation of the SFIC, the Strategic Forum for International Cooperation, in late 2008 is evidence of this.
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

From the lab to industry
Transforming the results of research into an innovative product involves a long commercial, legal and social process which extends beyond the realm of science. In Old Europe, where industry and academia have developed independently of one another, it is a particularly complex phenomenon. The EU is aware of the problem and has consequently made improving knowledge transfer one of the six priorities of the European Research Area Vision 2020 (EEA).
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

The researcher’s backpack
After the free circulation of persons, goods, services and capital, the European Union is now insisting on a fifth freedom, the free circulation of knowledge. At the heart of this freedom is the mobility of researchers to establish collaborative projects and networks essential to their professional development.
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

Universities in question(s)
Prime movers in research and the transmission of knowledge, universities have for centuries been jewels in the crown and the pride of European countries. In recent years a new impetus has come from the EU, in consultation with all stakeholders, to expand their autonomy, optimize their diversity and, with new resources, mainstream them into the knowledge economy.
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

“Alzheimer’s”, a pilot initiative
20 European countries and the European Commission agreed to fight neurodegenerative diseases together by coordinating their research programmes around common objectives.
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

The ERA at a glance
The ERA (European Research Area) consists of all R&D activities, programmes and policies designed and implemented in Europe with a transnational perspective. Developing the ERA first meant insuring the free circulation of researchers and knowledge in the EU. It also put into place a favourable environment for scientific and technical exchanges on a European scale and open to the world.
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

European research, slow but steady progress
To appreciate just how much of a milestone the ‘European Research Area’ concept represented when it was launched 10 years ago, it needs to be seen as the culmination of a disparate but inexorable long-term aspiration that first emerged several decades ago.
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

Space research, a condensed ERA
Since 1999, the European Union and ESA have cooperated on a number of major projects. It is a partnership that should contribute fully to creating an attractive European Research Area and serve the ambitions of European space policy
10-11-09
Source : research*eu

A key role but persistent weaknesses
The 2008 Commission report A more research-intensive and integrated European Research Area provides a genuine X-ray of the European Research Area (ERA). Packed full of graphs and figures, its 169 pages permit a comparison of the ERA’s performances with those of its principal competitors. It also provides food for thought on its evident weaknesses and how to correct them.
02-11-08
Source : research*eu


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