Ongoing ERA Actions

The current ERA Policy Agenda (2025-2027) continues 11 ERA Actions of the first ERA Policy Agenda (2022-2024) as Structural Policies:

• Enabling open science via sharing and re-use of data, including through the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
• Strengthening sustainability, accessibility and resilience of research infrastructures in the ERA
• Strengthening gender equality and inclusiveness in the ERA, notably with an intersectional approach
• Making research careers more attractive and sustainable, and support mobility
• Reforming research assessment
• Upscaling knowledge valorisation capacities and activities
• Implementing the Global Approach to R&I
• Making the strategic energy technology (SET) plan a key thematic component of the ERA
• Improving the articulation between R&I and higher education within the ERA and unleashing the full potential of European R&I ecosystems
• Enhancing trust in science through citizen participation, engagement and science communication
• Improve EU access to excellence

Additionally, eight new topics were introduced as ERA Actions with a duration of three years:

• Applying equity in open science
• Advancing the European Science for Policy (S4P) ecosystem
• Facilitating and accelerating the responsible use of AI in science in the EU
• Enhancing research security
• Accelerating R&I investments for Europe’s industrial transformation and competitive sustainability
• Accelerating new approach methodologies (NAMs) to advance biomedical research and testing of medicinal products and medical devices
• Developing a coherent and coordinated framework for a European approach to integrity and ethics in R&I in the face of emerging challenges.
• Empowering R&I: A new era in research management

The political agreement on the Coucil Recommendation for the second ERA Policy Agenda (2025-2027) was reached on May 23, 2025.