YERUN (the Young European Research Universities Network) welcomes the formal agreement reached today by the Competitiveness Council to adopt on 26-27 June the second European Research Area (ERA) Policy Agenda 2025–2027 as a Council Recommendation on the ERA Policy Agenda 2025-2027.
Drawing upon the Pact for R&I priority areas for joint action and the implementation outcomes of the first ERA Policy Agenda 2022-2024 as a basis, this second ERA Policy Agenda (EPA) outlines a renewed and more structured framework for strengthening the ERA in the coming years, combining long-term structural policies with targeted actions embedded in national and European policy research and innovation (R&I) systems to respond to evolving challenges in R&I.