About NORDERA

NORDERA is an ERA-net support action, financed by the European Commission with NordForsk as the project coordinator. Project partners are the Nordic Innovation Centre (NICe) and the Joint Research Centre - Institute for Prospective and Technological Studies in Seville. NORDERA has an Advisory Board with representatives from the national research councils. The project‘s total budget is 289 411 Euro.

The project started in May 2009 and ended with a final seminar the 25th of November 2010 in Brussels: A New Deal for ERA. Lessons learnt from Nordic R&I cooperation?


The NORDERA final seminar took place at Hotel Metropole the 25th of November 2010.

Read more about the conference here

Read the news article about the conference here

Objective
The objective of NORDERA is to study experiences of the Nordic region regarding research cooperation, to identify best practices and assess how the lessons learnt can be of value for the further development of the European Research Area (ERA) as well as the Nordic Research and Innovation Area (NORIA) as an integral part of ERA.

A detailed description of work is presented here: Lessons learned from Nordic research cooordination in the context of the ERA - NORDERA

The NORDERA project has produced three reports:

The first report, entitled “Nordic R&I cooperation – achievements and Challenges”, was finalised in March 2010 by NordForsk and NICe. It describes and analyses Nordic cooperation in relation to research and innovation. This has been done through a presentation of the main characteristics of both the formalized and the non-formalized aspects of the Nordic cooperation, and through an analysis of the main achievements and challenges.

The second report was finalised in August 2010 by the Joint Research Centre/IPTS, focussing on the existing European research coordination initiatives with a view to propose concrete recommendations on how the Nordic experiences can serve to encourage the further development of the European Research Area, especially regarding coordination of national programmes and joint programming. Equally, the analysis looks into how lessons learnt can be of value for the further development of NORIA and ERA.

The third report is a shorter and more accessible version of the first two. The draft report was presented at the final seminar in Brussels 25th November, after which the final report was finalised in December 2010.