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

Date: 03/12/2025

ERA-LEARN and the European Commission have jointly organised this fourth edition of the European Partnership Stakeholder Forum on 3 December 2025 in Brussels.

The event provided an excellent networking opportunity, bringing together the entire community of stakeholders from co-funded, co-programmed and institutionalised partnerships.

Two panel discussions addressed:

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

The parallel workshops covered:

  • 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

Downloads

Slides: European Partnerships under Horizon Europe 2028-2034

Slides: Building a coherent and strategic portfolio of European Partnerships

Recordings

Morning Session

Afternoon Session

Agenda

Download the agenda.

Moderation

Charlotte Van Velthoven-Geerdink, Charly Speaks 

09:30 - 10:30

Registration and welcome coffee
10:30 - 10:45

Welcome and opening audience activation

10:45 - 11:00

Welcome address and High-level keynote speech

Marc Lemaitre, Director-General DG RTD

11:00 - 11:15

Presentation of the Commission's Proposal for Horizon Europe (FP10)

Pauline Rouch, Director DG RTD.G

11:15- 12:30

Panel 1: “Shaping Collaboration: European Partnerships under FP10”

Panel members:

Pauline Rouch, European Commission, Director DG RTD.G
Alexandre Affre, Deputy Director-General, BusinessEurope
Lucie Nunez, Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Director 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)

12:30 - 14:00

Networking lunch and bilateral talks
14:00 - 15:30 Parallel workshops 

A1: Assessing and demonstrating the impact of European Partnerships

 

A2: Raising the potential for synergies and cooperation within clusters, across partnership and beyond

 

A3: Innovation and market uptake

 

A4: Phasing out strategies

15:30 - 16:15

Networking coffee
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 Expert Group on Directional Initiatives
Michael Dooms, member of the Expert Group on Directional Initiatives
Alexander Grablowitz, Co-Chair of the Partnership Knowledge Hub
Anne-Marie Sassen, Head of Unit, Executive Agency, EISMEA.01
17:30 - 19:00

Networking dinner and bilateral talks