Priority 5b (Open access) was where Estonia displayed its best combination of performances. The country was either above (Cluster 2) or well above (Cluster 1) the ERA average on all indicators. On most Priorities, Estonia’s scores placed the country either just above or just below the ERA averag...
The overall objective of the Research Infrastructures part of the 'Capacities' specific programme is to optimise the use and development of the best research infrastructures existing in Europe, and to help to create in all fields of science and technology new research infrastructures of pan-Euro...
The S2R Programme is an integrated set of Research and Innovation (R&I) activities, structured around five asset-specific Innovation Programmes (IPs), covering key structural (technical) and functional (process) subsystems of the rail systems: passenger trains, traffic management systems, infras...
The European Commission appointed the high-level strategy group on industrial technologies to assess, discuss, and recommend support for research and innovation in the area of key enabling technologies, also in view of future research and innovation programmes. Two new key enabling technologies ...
The European Research Area (ERA) Progress Report 2016 shows the state of play in ERA. A lot has happened in the European research landscape since the last edition in 2014. The ERA Roadmap at EU level was endorsed by the Council in early 2015. This called for top action priorities that will have ...
The interim evaluation of FP7 (November 2010) identified that some Member States, mainly those that joined the EU after 2004, had low participation rates in FP7 projects. Widening actions under the Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation part of Horizon 2020 address the causes of low par...
This study is conducted in the context of the evaluation of the European Union Framework Programmes for Research, Technological developments and Demonstration Activities (FPs). It is one of the preparatory studies being undertaken for the overall ex post evaluation of the FP7 (2007-2013). It aim...