European Partnership Stakeholder Forum 2025: “Re-Imagining partnerships: the road to FP10”

Date: 03/12/2025

ERA-LEARN and the European Commission are jointly organising the fourth European Partnership Stakeholder Forum, which will take place as a one-day event in Brussels on 3 December 2025.

As in previous years, the event will provide an excellent networking opportunity, bringing together the entire community of stakeholders from co-funded, co-programmed and institutionalised partnerships, with a particular focus on engaging the new partnerships.

Two panel discussions will be organised:

Shaping collaboration: European Partnerships under FP10
Building a coherent and strategic portfolio of European Partnerships

The parallel workshops will cover the following topics:

Assessing and demonstrating the impact of European Partnerships
Raising the potential for synergies and cooperation within clusters, across partnership and beyond
Innovation and market uptake
Phasing out strategies

Registration

The event is fully booked now. But there will be a live web-streaming of the plenary sessions.

The link to the live web-streaming is the following: https://vimeo.com/event/5447297/497bd10934

Agenda

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Moderation	Charlotte Van Velthoven-Geerdink, Charly Speaks
09:30 - 10:30	Registration and welcome coffee 5th floor: Panoramic Hall
10:30 - 10:45	Welcome and opening audience activation 4th floor: Plenary-Hall 400
10:45 - 11:00	Welcome address and High-level keynote speech Marc Lemaitre, Director-General of DG RTD 4th floor: Plenary-Hall 400
11:00 - 11:15	Presentation of the Commission's Proposal for Horizon Europe (FP10) Pauline Rouch, Director from DG RTD, DIR G
11:15- 12:30	Panel 1: “Shaping Collaboration: European Partnerships under FP10” Panel members: Pauline Rouch, European Commission, Director of DG RTD, DIR G Alexandre Affre, Deputy Director-General, BusinessEurope Lucie Nunez, Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Director of the Department of R&D Benedicte Løseth, Research Council of Norway, Executive Director - Research System and Internationalisation Pirita Lindholm, Director at the European Regions Research & Innovation Network (ERRIN) 4th floor: Plenary-Hall 400
12:30 - 14:00	Networking lunch and bilateral talks 5th floor: Panoramic Hall
14:00 - 15:30	Parallel workshops
	A1: Assessing and demonstrating the impact of European Partnerships 3rd floor: 314/316	A2: Raising the potential for synergies and cooperation within clusters, across partnership and beyond 4th floor: Plenary-Hall 400
	A3: Innovation and market uptake 3rd floor: 313/315	A4: Phasing out strategies 3rd floor: 311/312
15:30 - 16:15	Networking coffee (5th floor: Panoramic Hall)
16:15 - 17:30	Panel 2: “Building a coherent and strategic portfolio of European Partnerships”
	Presentation by the new Commission Expert Group on Directional Initiatives, introducing an array of proposed options they developed for identifying thematic areas to be addressed through partnerships, defining the optimal configuration of the overall portfolio, and outlining the steps and sequencing of the partnership selection and portfolio-building process. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A with the audience and a panel discussion. Panel members: Emily Wise, Chair of the Commission Expert Group on Directional Initiatives Michael Dooms, member of the Commission Expert Group on Directional Initiatives Alexander Grablowitz, Co-Chair of the Partnership Knowledge Hub Anne-Marie Sassen, Head of Unit, Executive Agency, EISMEA.01 4th floor: Plenary-Hall 400
17:30 - 19:00	Networking dinner and bilateral talks (5th floor: Panoramic Hall)

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