🗨️ Efforts to keep implementation of the European Research Area (ERA) going continued this week with the publication of a second ERA policy agenda, covering the years 2025 to 2027. The agenda is a prelude to the ERA Act, due to be introduced by the European Commission in 2026, which will propose legal reinforcement for a policy previously driven by voluntary action alone. The updated policy agenda has been broadly welcomed by the research community, but most are pinning their hopes for progress on the legal force of the ERA Act. This will be “the pivotal moment when the future of the ERA is decided,” said Vincent Klein Ikkink, advisor for research at university association CESAER. Check out the full article with quotes from our colleague Vincent Klein Ikkink 👉 https://lnkd.in/dR6KUbFj Science|Business Martin Greenacre
"This will be “the pivotal moment when the future of the ERA is decided,” said Vincent Klein Ikkink, advisor for research at university association CESAER. Klein Ikkink at CESAER and urged the Commission to be “bold and ambitious” in adopting a mandatory approach to guarantee that research and innovation becomes the “fifth freedom” of the single market, as recommended in last year’s high-level report by former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta." Read more about the Commission's proposal for the 2025-2027 European Research Area policy agenda, and what the future of the ERA should look like here: https://shorturl.at/hWpRZ