The European Research Executive Agency (ERA) announced, on Wednesday 8 May, the publication of a report to better assess directionality in national R&I systems in the EU and the countries associated with Horizon Europe, and to propose a framework on how to collect evidence on how directionality is taken into account in R&I policies.
Directionality here means promoting the targeted funding of R&I projects and infrastructures that contribute to a particular direction of transformative change, with clear objectives that can be monitored and controlled.
This report is part of a more recent approach aimed at taking greater account of the impact of research support.
In addition, the report stresses that the new strategy for the European Research Area calls for greater prioritisation of investment in order to improve the implementation of the green and digital transitions by European society and the economy.
The report is based, on the one hand, on publicly available data sets and, on the other, on observation of specific programmes.
Link to the report: https://aeur.eu/f/c5k (Original version in French by Émilie Vanderhulst)