European Universities Association (EUA) has published its proposals for the Next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP9). EUA proposals cover three key thematic areas: 1) providing long-term policies and funding instruments for research; 2) reinforcing collaboration and minimising discrepancies across the EU; and 3) seeking a stronger alignment of policies for education, research and innovation. Among other, EUA recommends to sufficiently fund a significantly larger number of excellent, collaborative and multidisciplinary research and innovation projects; to promote and support research based on bottom-up initiatives and open-themed calls for smaller, focused, multidisciplinary consortia; or to embed open science in all parts of FP9.
Source: http://eua.be/