
This thematic report illustrates how diverse policy and legal measures (including incentives to implement the European Charter for Researchers) can enhance the attractiveness of research careers by balancing national policy direction with institutional autonomy.

The summary article presents the outcomes of the Mutual Learning Exercise on Public Engagement in R&I. From January 2024 to April 2025, participating countries collaborated to exchange best practices, address key challenges, and develop recommendations to enhance public engagement in research and innovation.

This report offers key findings, policy recommendations, and best practices for embedding public engagement in research governance, addressing challenges and opportunities to foster a more inclusive and socially responsive European R&I ecosystem.

This report, explores enabling conditions for attractive R&I systems and balanced talent circulation, presenting policies at system, institutional, and individual levels. Policy options and national experiences are examined to inform the MLE’s mutual learning process.

This report explores key aspects of Public Engagement (PE) in ERA: long-standing practices and methods behind successful initiatives, transnational PE exercises and their benefits, and solutions to challenges in cross-border PE.

The report addresses key concepts, existing regulations, policies, and support measures, lessons learned, and good practices on skills and intersectoral, interdisciplinary, and interoperable careers.

This report aims to discuss three key framework elements of Public Engagement (PE): government policies and strategies supporting public engagement, methods for incentivising and rewarding PE practices, and the training and capacity-building initiatives designed to facilitate meaningful PE implementation

The final report presents key concepts, emergent practices, and insights drawn through an action learning journey with 16 participating countries in this Mutual Learning Exercise.

The summary article presents key findings and lessons learned from the Mutual Learning Exercise on EU missions implementation at national level.

The report is structured around a simplified HR lifecycle structure, dividing the broad MLE topic into five sections, discussing the impact of career policies from the employee journey perspective.