1. Brussels, 15 September 2009

2. 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

3. 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)

4. EUROHORCs / ESF Road Map4

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Thank you for your attention