ERA-LEARN 2020, a support platform for the Public-Public-Partnerships community, has published a policy brief on stakeholder engagement. This policy brief summarises the current state-of-play of stakeholder engagement among Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs), highlights existing approaches of engagement, and introduces possible ways to advance stakeholder engagement.
Involvement of a wide range of actors, such as national policy makers, research funding organisations, relevant research communities from academia and industry as well as user communities in JPIs and other Public-Public-Partnerships (P2Ps) is seen as a key pre-requisite for achieving long-term impact on tackling societal challenges through research and innovation (R&I) actions.
The most recent evaluation of the Joint Programming Process highlighted the view of JPIs that there is a strong need to involve end-users and industry “when facing a societal challenge”. The evaluation concludes that challenge-based R&I needs the active involvement of societal stakeholders and industry to achieve maximum impact. However, most JPIs “still wonder what would be the best way”. Against this background, this policy brief on stakeholder engagement summarises the current state-of-play of stakeholder engagement among JPIs, highlights existing approaches of engagement, and introduces possible ways to advance stakeholder engagement.
