Lisbon, Feb. 3, 2021 (Lusa) - The European Commission will launch on Thursday the new European Research Area, which aims to "encourage researchers to pursue a career outside the academic world", European commissioner Mariya Gabriel announced on Wednesday.
"Tomorrow [Thursday], 4 February, we will launch the European Research Area and we will put the emphasis on designing and outlining what our governance will be in the near future," the European commissioner for innovation and research said in a remote speech at the joint press conference with Portugal's science minister, Manuel Heitor.
The European Research Area was created 20 years ago during the second Portuguese presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). In 2018, it began its revitalisation process, stimulated by the ambition to create a single market for research, innovation and technology in the European Union.
"The new European Research Area aims to encourage researchers to pursue a career outside the academic world. The aim is to strengthen regulation between business and academia," stressed Mariya Gabriel.
She said that "to promote interesting to attractive careers in research, it is important to strengthen the synergies between education, research and innovation", adding that the European Union should strive to "combat the 'brain drain'".
She stressed the need for an observatory to help the EU "monitor the situation" of careers in research, highlighting indicators such as "employment conditions".
It is therefore important to "put the emphasis on the quantification aspects" and to make "an effort in terms of metrics" to achieve "better results in collaboration and data sharing", she said.
The European commissioner was speaking at a joint press conference with the minister for science, technology and higher education, Manuel Heitor, and the German minister for education and research, Thomas Rachel, following the informal council meeting between the ministers responsible for the 27 Member States, chaired by Manuel Heitor under the Portuguese presidency of the Council of the EU.
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