European Commission Research Area (ERA)

The European Research Area (ERA) aims at creating a unified area of reserach all across Europe to enable researchers to move and interact seamlessly, benefit from world-class infrastructures and work with excellent networks of research institutions; to share, teach, value and use knowledge effectively for social, business and policy purposes; to optimise and open European, national and regional research programmes in order to support the best research throughout Europe and coordinate these programmes to address major challenges together; and to develop strong links with partners around the world so that Europe benefits from the worldwide progress of knowledge, contributes to global development and takes a leading role in international initiatives to solve global issues.

The link address is: http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/index_en.html