Brussels, 15 September 2009

President of EUROHORCs Actively Shaping the Way Towards Joint Programming: EUROHORCs Road Map Activities regarding Peer Review, Scientific Foresight, Ex-post Evaluation and Cross-border Research Funding (Grant Union) Dieter Imboden President of EUROHORCs

Joint Programming: Commitment of EUROHORCs Support of Joint Programming Initiative from the Start, Contribution to Discussion: Statement “EUROHORCs’ View on Joint Programming”, November 2008 Active Involvement of Member Organisations in National Processes Regarding the Selection of Suitable Topics Support of and Participation in Alzheimer Pilot Project by many Member Organisations, (e.g. see Article Public Service Review, September 2009)

EUROHORCs / ESF Road Map 4

1. Peer Review of Proposals at European Level Development of a Peer Review Guide: _Core principles, establishment of a model peer review system, quality assurance, guidance for reviewers Referee Databases: _Common criteria for the selection of high-quality referees, methodologies for the identification of suitable reviewers Incentives for Peer Reviewers

2. Development of Scientific Foresight and Joint Strategy Development Continuation and Further Development of ESF Forward Looks _Engagement with additional stakeholders _Provision of clear recommendations about priorities _Analysis of the impact of ESF Forward Looks _Fields that have reached stage of maturity: building of vision of the future _Fields that are still in the emerging phase: additional involvement of research community

3. Common Approaches to Ex-post Evaluation of Funding Schemes and Research Programmes Exchange of Knowledge and Sharing of Experiences: _mapping report of current evaluation activities Improvement of Evaluation Studies: _dialogue between decision makers, evaluation experts and researchers about adequate indicators and quality standards _improvement of databases _adequate funding for evaluation activities Internationalisation Observation of the Effects

4. Cross-border Research Funding (Grant Union) Simplification of Transnational Collaboration through Transnational Co-operation Agreements such as: _Money Follows Researcher scheme _Money Follows Co-operation Line scheme _Lead Agency Procedure _ESF European Collaborative Research (EUROCORES) scheme

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