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Competitiveness Council focuses on EU 2020 Strategy

An exchange of views was held on the new 2020 Strategy for jobs and growth at the latest meeting of the Competitiveness Council on 1 and 2 March in Brussels. Competitiveness Council members agreed on many areas regarding the new strategy, including the importance of encouraging European industry towards a green and sustainable economy, as well as the necessity of putting research and innovation at the heart of the new strategy. They also agreed also that research must be focused on the most pressing current issues such as climate change, energy, food security, health and demographics.

Ministers also adopted conclusions on a European partnership for researchers. There was agreement on the importance of encouraging researcher mobility throughout the EU, including the provision of social security coordination issues and supplementary pensions. The conclusions will be discussed by employment and social policy ministers at their next meeting on 8 March.

Finally, the ministers adopted conclusions on the structure and mechanisms of the European Research Council (ERC). Among other things, the ministers called on the Commission to carry out an independent evaluation in 2011 as a follow-up to the recommendations made in last year's review of the ERC. Other factors considered in the conclusions concern the evaluation process, the integration of scientific and administrative functions, and the simplification of procedures. If they prove successful at the ERC, simplified measures could be extended to the rest of the Framework Programme.

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