In recent years the European Commission has approved and published
several documents related to Research and Higher Education in
Europe and to the international mobility of Researchers.
The Communications of the Commission have often underlined the
objectives of structuring, strengthening and increasing the
value of an overall "European" system for Research
and Higher Education, which should involve universities as well
as private and public research centres, through the commitment
of the Member States.
Most of the policy efforts and actions undertaken in the research
sector (including the Sixth
Framework Programme for R&D) have been set up following
the strategy laid down in the Presidency
Conclusions of the Lisbon European Council held in March
2000, known also as "The Lisbon strategy".
One of the most important goals identified for the Union was
"to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based
economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth
with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion".
Preparing the transition to a knowledge-based economy and society
by better policies for the information society and R&D was
identified as one of the essential strategies to be put in place
in order to reach this goal.
Those objectives were reaffirmed in the 2002
Presidency Conclusions of the Barcelona European Council
, where Heads of State and Government agreed that investment
in European R&D should be increased with the aim of approaching
3% of GDP by 2010.
Main
milestones
You will find here a list of the main documents. A more comprehensive
list of Documents referring to the European Research Area
is available at the European
Commission website:
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Communication from the Commission to the Council, the
European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee
and the Committee of the Regions. Towards a European Research
Area - COM (2000) 6 final > document |
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A mobility strategy for the European Research area - COM
(2001) 331 final> document |
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More Research for Europe: Towards 3% of GDF - COM (2002)
499 final > document |
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Investing in Research: an action plan for Europe - COM
(2003) 226 final > document |
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The role of the universities in the Europe of knowledge
- COM (2003) 58 final > document |
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Researchers in the European Research area: One profession,
multiple careers - COM (2003) 436 final > document |
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Presentation of a proposal for a directive and two proposals
for recommendations on the admission of third-country
nationals to carry out scientific research in the European
Community - COM (2004) 178 final > document |
Other documents referring to additional initiatives
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Final Report of the "High level Expert Group on Improving
Mobility of Researchers" - 21 March 2002 > document |
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Seminar on the Conditions of entry for Researchers Undertaking
International Mobility - Brussels 4-5 December 2001 >
document |
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The European Research Area (leaflet) > document
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For further information and news on the European Union Research
policy please consult the website of the Directorate for Research
of the European Commission:
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/research/index_en.cfm
For ERA News please consult http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/research/era/eranews_en.html
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