European Research Area

Plans to build a pan-European market for research have won powerful backing from national governments.

The responses to the Green Paper on creating a single European Research Area raise the spectre of more red tape and reduced competition.

R&D Commissioner Janez Potočnik is keen to see his country, Slovenia, advancing the European Research Area during its EU Presidency. But, asks Nuala Moran, is the necessary momentum there?

The Commission has announced the 22 members of the European Research Area Board, charged with advising on the creation of the European Research Area.

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National research funding and grant giving bodies should be given more prominence in the European Commission’s plans to create the European Research Area, say research council heads and the European Science Foundation.