The European Research Area is too fractured and much by inward-looking national priorities, an advisory body warns, urging a fundamental shift in the way research is done.

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.

The European Commission is to fund joint research in the science of measurement in 32 member states, advancing moves to create the single European Research Area.

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The Green Paper on the formation of a European Research Area attracted more than 800 responses by the time the consultation came to an end this week.

The scientists’ organisation Euroscience has welcomed the European Commission’s Green paper on the European Research Area – but raised concerns about aspects of the consultative procedures.

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.