The Joint Programming Initiatives

Joint programming is a process by which EU Member States establish a joint research strategy to tackle major societal challenges. The objective is to reduce research landscape fragmentation, and to align national research programmes and resources for more impact. Although the Member States launched ten Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) to implement this process, evaluation of the JPIs revealed that they lacked political and financial commitment to joint programming.

Author: Vincent Reillon

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Public Research: Common problems need common solutions! Commission proposes to Member States to jointly address major societal challenges, July 2008 http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-public-research-common-problems-need-common-solutions-commission-proposes-to-member-states-to-jointly-address-major-societal-challenges/

ESO: Background information: Speech: Joint Programming Conference, February 2013 http://www.europeansources.info/record/speech-joint-programming-conference/

European Commission: Research and Innovation: ERA: Joint Programming: Joint Programming Initiatives http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/joint-programming-initiatives_en.html

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