The Gold Mine of Nationally-funded Projects

B Giovani,A De La Peña,G Anthoine,M Maes,M L Cruz,J.G Unger,M Schenk,S Blümel,E Steel

doi:10.13189/ujar.2016.040505

Abstract

The Euphresco (European phytosanitary research coordination) network is an ERA-NET initially funded by the 6 th and 7 th EU Framework Programmes as an initiative to enhance public-public partnership in the statutory plant health sector. An inventory was organised in 2015 to collect information on the national phytosanitary research programmes and their research projects in the EPPO region. The information collected through the Euphresco inventory provides precious insights into national research activities to avoid programme duplication and to increase programme depth among the phytosanitary research funders of the EPPO region and beyond.

Highlights

European integration and the development of the European Union pass through the implementation of a number of EU, national and grassroots initiatives
It was not possible to define an exact budget for all research programmes, as a number of them are continuous programmes or because the information was not provided
Three years (2013, 2014 and 2015) are shown, while information on previous years was omitted; because the inventory only focused on phytosanitary research programmes that were active at the date the survey was sent and because the start and end date of each national programme differ, we assessed that only data from very recent years would provide a trustworthy picture of the financial resources allocated by the respondents

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Introduction

European integration and the development of the European Union pass through the implementation of a number of EU, national and grassroots initiatives. ERA is a single space for research and innovation, where knowledge, ideas, technologies and researchers can move freely and where research activities at the national and EU level are well integrated and coordinated [1]. Despite these ambitions, 85% of public research and development (R&D) in the EU is still programmed, financed, monitored and evaluated at national level, with little collaboration or coordination between countries [2]. 85% of public research and development (R&D) in the EU is still programmed, financed, monitored and evaluated at national level, with little collaboration or coordination between countries [2]

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