Blog: Europe of Knowledge 2014: High Expectations and Complex Realities

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Series Details 07.01.14
Publication Date 07/01/2014
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The New Year of 2014 in European research policy comes with a couple of high profile events: launch of Horizon 2020 – one of the largest research funding programmes worldwide and envisaged completion of the European Research Area – so far the most comprehensive initiative in transnational knowledge governance.

These major events involve a lot of activities at the organisational, national and global levels to facilitate effectiveness of research organisations and funding, to promote mobility and to support collaboration.

The year 2014 also marks a number of interesting anniversaries in the European research integration. It is the 60th anniversary of CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research where among other things 25 years ago World Wide Web was invented. Moreover, 30 years ago the first European Framework Programme providing funding for research and development was launched.

These events provide an opportunity to reflect on why and how transnational governance in the field of research has evolved and what kind of benefits has it delivered.

Source Link http://era.ideasoneurope.eu/2014/01/07/europe-of-knowledge-2014-high-expectations-and-complex-realities/
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Website: European Commission: EURAXESS - Researchers in Motion http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/
ESO: Background information: Horizon 2020 http://www.europeansources.info/record/horizon-2020/
ESO: Background information: European Research Area (ERA) http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-european-research-area-era/
Blog: Ideas on Europe: Europe of Knowledge, 17.01.14: Where is Horizon 2020 leading us? http://era.ideasoneurope.eu/2014/01/17/where-is-horizon-2020-leading-us/
Website: ERA-Collaborative Research Network http://eracrn.wordpress.com/

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