Green ERA-Hub Living Archive - Research Prioritisation in Practice

This resource forms part of the Green ERA-Hub Living Archive, developed within the Horizon Europe Green ERA-Hub Coordination and Support Action (CSA). The Living Archive provides a curated collection of practical guidance, tools, templates and examples designed to support funders, programme managers and research organisations in planning, implementing and improving transnational research and innovation (R&I) collaboration. Resources are organised around four thematic areas: Funding Modalities, Research Prioritisation, Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment (MEIA), and Widening & Outreach.

This practical example demonstrates how a structured, multi-method approach can be used to develop research priorities for a transnational research and innovation programme. Drawing on established practices from the Green ERA-Hub ecosystem and related European partnership initiatives, it illustrates a complete prioritisation pathway combining evidence gathering and portfolio analysis, stakeholder consultation, partner workshops, refinement and validation, and the translation of agreed priorities into call-ready topics. The example highlights practical challenges, success factors and lessons learned, showing how funding organisations and programme partners can reconcile different national priorities, integrate stakeholder perspectives and use evidence to develop clear, actionable and jointly agreed research priorities. It is intended to complement the Green ERA-Hub Research Prioritisation Decision Tool and associated guidance by demonstrating how these approaches can be applied in practice to support effective transnational research programming.