Progress toward the ERA: the implementation of public R&D funding in transnational ERA-NET programs

The development of the European Research Area is a key policy issue in public R&D policies, and coordination through joint programming appears as one of the most promising path to achieve the goal of aligning national research agendas and activities across Europe. The policy brief focuses on the different implementation of transnational research programs from research funding organizations (RFOs) in European countries. The analysis discusses the ERA-NET funding schemes; it is based on advancements of the JoREP database developed within the RISIS project, and deals with factors affecting the volume of funding mobilized by different countries over time, and the characteristics of networking between RFOs.