EUREKA EVENTS

ERA Conference 2012 - "Fostering Efficiency, Excellence and Growth"

The conference is an important milestone in the ongoing preparations of the ERA Framework. In it, the responses to public consultation and their implications will be presented and discussed.
The event will provide a platform for prominent stakeholders to testify and discuss further where they see major bottlenecks and help to mobilise a broad consensus and support for the way forward via the ERA Framework. The Conference will gather around 400 participants from the broader research stakeholder community.

The event will start with two plenary sessions, one giving prominence to the perspectives of different research stakeholders and one aimed at assessing the economic implications of completing ERA in terms of growth and innovation.
These will be followed by six thematic sessions on the main ERA issues and obstacles identified in the Innovation Union Communication

Participants will be an opportunity to:

- discover the main outcome of the public consultation and discuss their implications with a wide cross-section of the EU research stakeholder community

- engage in and contribute to the research policy debate with high-level research stakeholder representatives and policy-makers, top researchers and business leaders

- develop and deepen the consensus and commitment to act much more purposely than has been the case to date to complete ERA, and on how to do this in an efficient and effective way.

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