RESEARCH2020
In May 2011 the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation launched a process with the objective of creating a new basis for prioritising strategic research, which will replace RESEARCH2015
The new basis for prioritisation
In December 2011 the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation disseminated the first draft of the RESEACH2020 catalogue to a number of central stakeholders. details about the process and the catalogue can be found below.
The aim of the RESEARCH2020 catalogue is to reach beyond the current topical and identify research needs that the future socio-economic development creates. This challenge-oriented thinking is today an internationally recognised approach to research priorities, which is also used in EU context for determining the content of the EU research and innovation programme Horizon 2020.
The identified research priorities and visions in the RESEARCH2020 draft are Danish, but they are well in line with the themes discussed in EU context, based on the "Grand challenges"
As something new - compared with RESEARCH2015 - the RESEARCH2020 draft focuses on fewer themes with a sharper focus on large Danish and global social challenges and potentials in relation to growth, employment and welfare. The themes are aggregated into five main areas, each of which contains a more overall vision for the development of key social areas. It is important to emphasise that neither the five visions or the catalogue is an expression of political priorities. The visions are an result of the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovations attempt to clarify the essence of what the many received contributions to the RESEARCH2020 draft suggest is the future strategic research targets. At the same time the five visions each creates the frame of two to four underlying research themes that are interrelated.
RESEARCH2020 must meet the agreement of the finance act of November 2011 in which the parties note that RESEARCH2020 will be included as a future basis for prioritisation of strategic research. In addition the catalogue is expected to be utilized in relation to a number of other areas that go beyond the strategic research, for example research collaboration in the EU and a future Danish innovation strategy.
The process
The process is developed in accordance with the feedback from the stakeholder dialogue in the Spring of 2011 as well as the results of the evaluation of RESEARCH2015, which was completed in 2009.
The new basis for prioritisation, RESEARCH2020, must be completed in Spring 2012.
On these pages you can find more information about the process.
