WELCOME TO THE NEW ERAWATCH WEBSITE
ERAWATCH is the European Commission's information platform on European, national and regional research systems and policies. Its main objectives are to support policy-making in the research field in Europe and to contribute to the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA).
It is a long term initiative jointly carried out by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS), Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG-RTD) and in close collaboration with the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry (DG-ENTR). The ERAWATCH online service has been developed in collaboration with everis.
ERAWATCH serves the information needs of decision-makers, policy analysts and the wider research community. It presents up-to-date information and analysis on national, regional and EU level R&D policies, actors, organisations and programmes and contributes to the realisation of the ERA by identifying policy options and improving the coordination of scientific and technological activities.
ERAWATCH currently covers 61 countries: the 27 Member States of the European Union, 13 countries associated with the European Community's Research Framework Programme and 21 third countries. It also provides an overview of the European Union.
ERAWATCH is a registered trademark. Reproduction of content is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. European Communities, 2006.
Research and Innovation Policy documents and Research and Innovation Policy Support Measures bring together national information on research and innovation policies, measures and programmes collected and presented by the European Commission (through ERAWATCH and INNO-Policy TrendChart) according to a dedicated policy framework. This inventory has been created by the European Commission to facilitate access to information on research and innovation policies within
Content can be searched by keywords, by country and by type of information.
The Research and Innovation Inventory pages are organised as follows:
- - Country Pages, including information on national and regional research systems and policies,
- - European perspective, comprising European level information,
- - Reports, section devoted to analysis on research policy issues, country overviews and trends.
The ERAWATCH Country Pages provide an overview of national and regional research policies, actors and programmes. This section collects and classifies five main categories of information at national and regional level:
- - Highlights: cover important and recent developments in the research policy / or national politics that highly affect the national RDI policy and system; (r)
- - Country Fiche: provide basic characterisations of the national and regional research and innovation systems and policies; (c)
- - Research and Innovation Policy documents: cover all authoritative documents setting out R&D policy or influencing its development and implementation; (s)
- - Research and Innovation Policy Support Measures: cover relevant research programmes and other instruments being developed and implemented by national governments to achieve their policy objectives; (s)
- - Organisations: cover all major institutional policy actors and intermediaries engaged in the development, implementation, funding and review of R&D policy; (s)
- - Sources of information: cover the authoritative national sources of information on research related activities; (s)
- - ERAWATCH Annual Analytical Country Reports (s)
(r) in the right part of the selected Country page
(c) in the center of the selected Country page
(s) to select from the "Specific Templates" or "Report" buttons in the right column of the selected Country page
The ERAWATCH European Perspective provides an overview of research policies and systems at European level. It includes:
- - EU Profile, research related activities of the European Union,
- - Overview Across EU Countries, a synthetic overview of Member State activities, and
- - Intergovernmental R&D Cooperation Activities intergovernmental and supranational R&D cooperation activities.
ERAWATCH Reports focus on research policy issues, including:
- - ERAWATCH Annual Analytical Country Reports, which provide annual reviews of the status and evolution of national and regional research systems and policies;
- - emerging themes and trends in the structure, content and evolution of research systems;
- - synthesis and overview of EU Member States' progress towards ERA.
The ERAWATCH Country pages are maintained with the support of the ERAWATCH Network and the reports are the result of the work of the JRC-IPTS team with the support of the ERAWATCH Network.
The Joint Inventory of Policy Measures page refers to the national information and documentation on research and innovation policies, measures and programmes collected and presented by ERAWATCH and INNO-Policy TrendChart.
The innovation policy measures for each individual country are available from the ERAWATCH country pages but if you are looking for a specific type of measure, you can also use the INNO-Policy TrendChart multi-criteria search function.
Disclaimer: The content of this website has been produced by the ERAWATCH Network, under contract to the European Commission, using correspondents in each of the countries covered. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy of the information, some inaccuracies may occasionally occur. We therefore welcome your comments and suggestions for the next updates. See also Important Legal Notice.
