The Coimbra Group commits to eight ERA policy actions
25 July 2022
Together with Member States, associated countries, and other stakeholder organisations engaged in the ERA Policy Agenda for 2022-2024 development process, the Coimbra Group was invited in June to express its commitments towards the implementation of specific ERA Actions.
After an internal consultation and considering the network’s internal capacity, the CG formally committed to the following eight actions:
- Action 3. Advance towards the reform of the Assessment System for research, researchers and institutions to improve their quality, performance and impact.
- Action 4. Promote attractive and sustainable research careers, balanced talent circulation and international, transdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility across the ERA.
- Action 5. Promote gender equality and foster inclusiveness, taking note of the Ljubljana declaration.
- Action 6. Deepening the ERA through protecting academic freedom in Europe.
- Action 8. Strengthen sustainability, accessibility and resilience of research infrastructures in the ERA.
- Action 11. An ERA for Green Transformation.
- Action 13. Higher Education Institutions – Empowering higher education institutions to develop in line with the ERA, and in synergy with the European Education Area.
- Action 14. Bring science closer to citizens.
The Coimbra Group looks forward to the announcement by Member States of their final commitments and to take an active role in the implementation phase of the selected actions.