Site Logo   Help
Home
Topics
Contact
COMP-ERA
Home
Advanced SearchExecute search
Topics
About Compera
Programme Database
News
Publications
Links
Competence Research Centres in Europe

COMPERA is targeted towards the creation of a sustainable network of programmes that are funding Competence Research Centres. It should lead to a strategic decision-making of programme owners and managers at pan-European level with regard to Competence Research Centres. These centres aim to bridge the gap between technological and economic innovation by providing a collective environment for academics and industry and sufficient critical mass. Their activities are multiple: pooling of knowledge, creation of new knowledge by performing different types of research, training and dissemination of knowledge.

COMPERA is funded under the ERA-NET scheme of the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme
 News
VINNOVA’s Focus on Impact (Sweden):
Joint Approach for Impact Logic Assessment, Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Analysis. This report describes the VINNOVA ambitions and activities that aim to understanding and increasing the effects of the VINNOVA commitment to research, innovation and sustainable growth in Sweden. The report briefly describes the different processes used by VINNOVA to secure the quality in the alignment and implementation from an impact perspective. However, the report focuses on the descriptions of and conclusions from the impact analysis made by VINNOVA since the start in 2001. From an international perspective, certain aspects are unique.
Presentations CRC-managers' workshop on long term strategies for durability now available
5 MARCH 2008 - Register for Workshop for CRC managers: long-term strategies of CRCs for durability
Are you the manager of a Competence Research Centres? If yes, block Wednesday 5 March 2008 in your agenda. On this day, COMPERA organises a workshop which is dedicated to the issue of continuity and long-term strategies for Competence Research Centres (CRCs). Most CRCs in Europe receive their funding by programmes of limited duration. What happens after this initial funding period? How do CRCs make sure that their achievements are not lost? That their results are taken up and used by companies, research institutes, etc? Which strategies are possible after this initial funding? What are the differences in Europe towards the long-term strategies for CRCs? What is the role of developed research agenda's, impact measurements?
COMPERA Newsletter Issue 2 - January 2008
This newsletter informs you on the progress that the COMPERA network has made towards further implementation of the selected joint activities for Competence Research Centres (CRCs) and their funding programmes. This includes amongst others the workshop for managers of CRCs and the developed website for and on CRCs. In addition you will find news on a new call dedicated to support the internationalisation of clusters and several studies that are related tot CRCs and international cooperation.
Detailed workprogrammes for selected joint activities available
The COMPERA Technical Committee approved, during its meeting on 7 November in Stockholm, the detailed workprogrammes for the different selected joint activities.

To partners