European Research Area Platform: a new gateway for the ERA

On 22 January 2024, the EC Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) launched a new European Research Area (ERA) Platform, a dedicated one-stop-shop that provides a comprehensive overview of current ERA policies, activities and achievements. As of that day, EU Member States, countries associated to Horizon Europe as well as R&I stakeholder organisations will be able to contribute to the content of the website.

The ERA Policy Platform is part of the new ERA governance framework and the Pact for Research and Innovation (R&I) in Europe. Specifically, this platform will:

•  provide up-to-date information about the state of implementation of the ERA Policy Agenda and its joint actions;
• give insights into EU-wide activities contributing to make progress on the ERA;
• feature all the elements of the ERA monitoring mechanism, including interactive graphs showing the progress on ERA priorities as reported in the ERA Scoreboard and the ERA Dashboard;
• offer a repository of key ERA-related documents and reports available to the public;
• serve as a central space for communicating between all actors interested in advancing the ERA objectives.

The ERA Policy Platform is designed in a user-friendly way, making it easily accessible not only to national authorities or R&I stakeholders (organisations or individual researchers), but also to interested citizens. The platform will not be a static tool as the Commission will further improve its features, its visual appearance as well as its content to ensure a much stronger visibility of the achievements in establishing the ERA.