Enhancing the European R&I system (ERA call)

The destination includes one call with 7 call topics and other actions that are designed to contribute to the Pact priorities and the related ‘ERA Actions’:

• Priority area I (Deepening a truly functioning internal market for knowledge) is addressed with actions that target policy areas such as reproducibility of scientific results, open access publishing, research assessment reform, research careers and researchers’ mobility, gender equality and inclusiveness, academic freedom, and knowledge valorisation, corresponding to ERA Actions 1-7.
• Priority area II (Taking up together the green transition and digital transformation and other challenges with impact on society and increasing society’s participation in the ERA) is addressed with actions that focus on connecting stakeholders, local communities and citizens around R&I policies and solutions, corresponding to ERA Action 14
• Priority area III (Enhancing access to research and innovation excellence across the Union and enhancing interconnections between innovation ecosystems across the Union) is addressed with actions that support capacity-building in research management and recognition and uptake of research management profession, corresponding to ERA Action 17.
• Priority area IV (Advancing concerted research and innovation investments and reforms) is addressed with actions that support analysis and evidence on the implementation of the ERA through the ERA monitoring mechanism and that facilitate cooperation between national and European R&I systems, corresponding to ERA Actions 19 and 20.

The topics under this destination welcome the effective contribution of social sciences and humanities (SSH) disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise, in order to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related project activities.