POLICY ANSWERS supports the ERA-LEARN Initiative which currently conducts a survey among the decision makers and agencies from the EU and Associated countries.
The goal of this survey is to learn about the experience of national stakeholders involved in the European Partnerships, as well as to investigate challenges and benefits of various stakeholders’ participation in these types of programmes and explore matters such as:
- Criteria for selection of partnerships by participating member states
- Roles of participating organisations
- Type of stakeholder involvement
- Measures supporting participation of Widening and less performing countries
- Learning needs of participating organisations
- Use of Cohesion Policy (or IPA) Funds
A special focus of this survey is to investigate participation of the Widening and less performing countries in the European Partnerships. Enhancing participation of this group of countries is highlighted by the EU in the Openness and Transparency principle. One important component of this principle is to strengthen the European Research Area through Sharing Excellence and Widening Participation in all pillars of Horizon Europe, and through the Partnership instrument.
With this survey ERA-LEARN aims to find out what measures supporting inclusion of the Widening Countries have been implemented and learn more about the roles of this group of countries in the European Partnerships.
The survey is open until September 30th, 2022. We kindly invite you to take part in this survey, even if you have limited or no experience with European partnerships. Your input is vary valuable for future actions within both ERA-LEARN and POLICY ANSWERS projects.
Click here to participate in the Survey!