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Policy Support Facility

The Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility is a new instrument that gives Member States and countries associated to Horizon 2020 practical support to design, implement and evaluate reforms that enhance the quality of their research and innovation investments, policies and systems.

The Policy Support Facility provides best practice, independent high-level expertise and guidance at the request of Member States and Associated Countries through a number of services: Peer Reviews, Mutual Learning Exercises and Specific Support to Countries. The Policy Support Facility replies to the strong need to offer more customer-oriented services to support evidence-based policy making. To organise this process the Commission issues an annual call for Expression of Interest via the European Research Area and Innovation Committee.

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Peer Reviews

Peer Reviews are in-depth assessments of a country's R&I system carried out by a panel of experts and leading to concrete recommendations to the national authorities on reforms necessary to strengthen their R&I system.

Mutual Learning Exercises

Mutual learning exercises focus on specific R&I challenges of interest to several volunteering countries, and draw on a hands-on project-based exchange of good practice.

Specific Support to Countries

Specific support to countries aims at providing a set of concrete recommendations on how to tackle a specific R&I policy challenge and how to implement the accompanying reforms.

Exercises

Upcoming events

Specific Support to Tunisia: final meeting

21 November 2018

Specific support to Montenegro: second country visit – validating recommendations for entrepreneurship developments

22 November 2018

News

Evaluation of business R&D grant schemes: new challenges, new opportunities

28 September 2018

Support for start-ups in Montenegro

2 July 2018

A toolkit for performance-based research funding

29 June 2018

Prioritisation, selectivity of funding and science-business links: how to improve Georgia’s research and innovation system

28 June 2018

Towards Open Science – mutual learning for systemic change

20 June 2018

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