National government and EU officials should place more emphasis on coordinating research into major societal challenges, Europe’s High-Level Group for Joint Programming has said.
Joint programming—the coordination of national and European research into high-priority challenges—offers promise, but needs to be given more stable financial support and a greater role in directing EU-funded research to really deliver, Europe’s High-Level Group for Joint Programming said in an opinion paper published on 7 June.
The development of the 10 Joint Programming Initiatives, which are the most high-profile coordination instruments and cover research into subjects like climate change and antimicrobial resistance, has been “encouraging”, the paper said. The early hope that the JPIs would secure more funding for their subjects was “not realistic”, but the JPIs’ refinement into strategic hubs is achieving “considerable results”, it said.
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