With a view to improve efficiency of public funding in research and addressing major societal challenges, Member States have identified the need to improve the alignment and interoperability of their national programmes. Building on the Lund Declaration, the ERAC Joint Programming Group (GPC) has launched an MLE to address the need to foster national coordination by looking at national preconditions for participation in JPP (Joint Programming Process) / JPI (Joint Programming Initiatives), national governance structures and communication flows and visibility.
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Aligning and coordinating national research programmes has great potential to boost the payoff from EU Member States’ R&D investments, by pooling resources, avoiding wasted efforts and achieving critical mass.

This report summarises the main results of the MLE, with a particular focus on sharing the learning. To this end, it also contains country fiches, which briefly summarise the present situation in each participating country, its strengths and weaknesses and list of potential actions to be implemented at national level as identified by the national representatives during the course of the MLE.
This report, produced by the PSF Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on Alignment and Interoperability of Research Programmes, is concerned with the role that National Preconditions play in the Joint Programming Process (JPP), including Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) and other public-to-public partnerships (P2Ps). The report builds on a Challenge Paper, background research and feedback from participating countries at MLE workshops in Brussels, Vienna and Ljubljana.
This report, produced by the PSF Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on Alignment and Interoperability of Research Programmes, is concerned with the role of ‘National Governance Structures’ in the Joint Programming Process (JPP), including Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) and other public-to-public partnerships (P2Ps). The report builds on a Challenge Paper, background research and feedback from participating countries at MLE workshops in Brussels, Vienna and Ljubljana.

This report, produced by the PSF Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on Alignment and Interoperability of Research Programmes, is concerned with the role of ‘Communications Flows and Visibility’ in the Joint Programming Process (JPP), including Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) and other public-to-public partnerships (P2Ps). The report builds on a Challenge Paper, background research and feedback from participating countries at MLE workshops in Oslo.

This Report is the 1st of five that will be prepared as the main deliverables of the MLE. It builds upon the discussions and conclusions reached at the working meeting in Brussels on 3 October 2016. It also includes insights gained from interviews with participant countries and their specific written contributions.

The Modus Operandi defines the scope, the objectives, envisaged outcomes and the preliminary time schedule of the MLE. It also describes the working approach and methodology the group will follow as well as the distribution of work of all participants.