Pilot Examples of Engagement with International Partners

As ERIC Forum 2 Deliverable 7.1 (Best Practices and Recommendations for Procedures of Engagement with Third Countries) demonstrated, there are a wide variety of mechanisms used by ERICs to engage with third countries. The diversity can be explained by the variation in conditions for international collaboration per ERIC.

Following the survey and interviews of ERICs reported in that report, the next step was to disseminate and review the most common and impactful activities that ERICs use to engage with third countries and international partners. Four workshops were organised, each providing an opportunity for research infrastructure teams to come together and discuss the merits and challenges associated with various modalities, and to come up with a series of recommendations for each, where and when they should be used, and how to progress from one mechanism to another.