Consultation on the ERA Framework: Areas of untapped potential for the development of the European Research Area (ERA)

The Heads of State and Government of the European Union have called to address remaining gaps for the achievement of the European Research Area rapidly in order to complete the ERA by 2014 to create a genuine single market for knowledge, research and innovation. The consultation aims to reinforce the Commission analysis of the key issues to be addressed as well as to gather views on their importance: researchers' careers and mobility, research infrastructures, cross-border operation of research actors, knowledge circulation, International cooperation and cross-cutting governance issues.

The outcome of the consultation will help the Commission to decide on those issues, which should be addressed as priorities when preparing by 2012 the ERA Framework, which will set out the focused, proportionate and effective measures to be taken to realize ERA.

We welcome contributions from citizens, organisations and public authorities.

• If you are answering this consultation as a citizen, please click here to submit your contribution.
• If you are answering this consultation on behalf of an organisation, please click here to submit your contribution.
• If you are answering this consultation on behalf of a public authority, please click here to submit your contribution.

Before submitting your contribution, please read carefully the consultation document which provides background and guidance to the consultation.

You can respond to one or more of the sections of the questionnaire. Only Section 1 on 'information about the respondent ' is mandatory to fill in.
The maximum time to complete the questionnaire allowed by the system is 90 Minutes. Please try to fill in the questionnaire within this time limit. If you do not have sufficient time to fill in the questionnaire, you have to save the information submitted within 90 minutes and then enter the system again to submit your remaining contribution. You can, however, preview/print a pdf version of the online questionnaire.

You can read the European Council conclusions of 4 February 2011

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