Voortgangsrapport Europese Onderzoeksruimte: België tweede EU-land

Published on 10 February 2017

European Research Area

De EC publiceerde een nieuw voortgangsrapport over de Europese Onderzoeksruimte - European Research Area - ERA (*).

In de eindscore die alle prioriteiten samenneemt staat België als tweede EU-land, voor Duitsland, Denemarken en Finland.

"Belgium is a strong performer and overall is among the highest ranked countries in overall progress towards achieving the ERA."
 
"With the exception of Priority 4 (gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research), Belgium’s priority composites fall into the first or second cluster. Within Priority 4, however, Belgium showed improvements across all indicators in recent years, suggesting that they are closing one of the country’s only performance gaps.  Performance was particularly strong for Sub-priority 2a (jointly addressing grand challenges) and 5a (knowledge transfer)."
 
"With some exceptions (e.g. public-to-public partnerships), Belgium’s growth trends are positive but small, suggesting continuous improvements in performance, although not always to the same extent as the EU-28. Indeed, across several indicators, Belgium’s mean annual growth rate was eclipsed by the EU-28’s, suggesting that other countries are catching up."
 
"Belgium published a complete and detailed 2016 National Action Plan (also called an ERA national roadmap), which includes, for all priorities, ‘Strategic policy aims and actions points’ with implementation horizons for the federal and regional governments. For instance, in regard to Priority 4 (in which Belgium has more room for improvement), the following ‘Priority actions’ for the federal government have been outlined: (a) ‘To implement the Law of 12 January 2007 (law on “gender mainstreaming”)’, (b) ‘To provide training on the gender dimension in research for R&D managers and for researchers of the FRIs [Federal Research Institutions]’, (c) ‘To develop an action plan for all new R&I programmes’, and (d) ‘To develop and distribute an awareness-raising document’ (BELSPO, 2016)."

Country Snapshot Belgium kan onderaan deze pagina gedownload worden.

Internationalisering

Voor de eerste keer geeft het verslag ook de voortgang van de maatregelen doorheen de tijd.

Zo groeide de transnationale samenwerking tussen de lidstaten met 7,8% in de jaren 2010-2014.

Daarnaast groeide het aantal internationale co-publicaties met 3,6% gemiddeld over de periode 2005-2014, wat de toenemende internationalisering van de wetenschap weerspiegelt.

Toponderzoek is ook gegroeid aan een gemiddelde van 6,4% ten opzichte van de afgelopen jaren.

Onderaan deze pagina kunt u het rapport, samen met de technische bijlage en het staff working report downloaden.

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(*) De Europese Onderzoeksruimte (European Research Area - ERA) is een structuur, vergelijkbaar met de gemeenschappelijke Europese markt voor goederen en diensten, waarin de Europese Unie haar inspanningen op het vlak van onderzoek en innovatie, en dit zowel op Europees als op nationaal en regionaal niveau, wil coördineren en versterken.

De video hieronder geeft duiding en uitleg.

 

Peter Spyns
Navorser
Afdeling Coördinatie, Evaluatie, EU en Internationaal O&O&I-beleid

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