Strengthening partnership programmes in Europe

The ERA-LEARN consortium builds on and exploits the experiences of the predecessor projects since the consortium partners were involved in all of these initiatives. ERA-LEARN will: - focus on increasing the impact of P2Ps and collecting evidence of impacts achieved; - use a more thematic approach in tackling the challenges identified in P2Ps; - more closely interact with the P2P community and become more ‘attractive’ while also meeting the needs of P2Ps; - generate added value for joint programming in Europe going far beyond the state of the art - realise a common approach to the planning and implementation of joint activities and aligned national and/or regional activities, their monitoring and impact assessment. It will result in: - mutual learning and better cooperation practices, enhanced efficiency and effectiveness of the P2P activities, and overcoming of potential barriers and obstacles; - important indicators on the impacts of P2Ps made available; - improved alignment of national research policies; - common tools and approaches, developed by the P2P community, with a view to generate economies of scales; - sharing of data on transnational projects resulting from the different P2Ps; - benchmarking opportunities as a result of sharing of data; - better communication of P2Ps towards their target communities. Means and instruments to increase impact: - the ERA-LEARN toolbox and web-based opportunities to share experiences and good practices - provision of data on P2P networks as well as on transnational projects resulting from different P2Ps; - continuation of the systematic process for monitoring and impact assessment of P2P networks, including their impacts at the policy, programme and RTD project levels; - involvement of the entire P2P community by providing space for exchange at thematic level as well as via dedicated workshops, trainings and conferences.