European Research Area

Abstract

Europe is in transition to a new model of economic development. To this end, the EU creates a common research space, a kind of pan-European marketplace of ideas, research, innovation. Such large-scale problem is solved in the framework of numerous transnational research partnerships, which, in turn, are implemented under the European Framework Programme. The programs are unique in their scope, as well as in essence, as they are formed on the basis of global Foresight. Richard Burger, an S&T advisor of the EC Delegation in Russia, discusses how and on what basis the pan-European research area is formed.