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What is Joint programming?

Joint programming is a concept introduced by the European Commission in July 2008 and is one of five initiatives aimed at implementing the European Research Area (ERA). The concept intends to tackle the challenges that cannot be solved solely on the national level and allows Member States and Associated Countries to participate in those joint initiatives where it seems useful for them.

Objective: To increase the value of relevant national and EU R&D and infrastructure investments by concerted and joint planning, implementation and evaluation of national research programmes.

How: Member States and Associated Countries are expected to coordinate national research activities in the broadest sense, group resources, benefit from complementarities and develop common research and innovation agendas, as a basis for long-term cooperation in order to face grand societal challenges.

More information: The website of the European Commission.

Objectives

The main objective of JPI on Cultural Heritage addresses the strong relationships that link cultural heritage, conservation, technological innovation and economic development within the dynamic framework of the challenges and competitiveness in an enlarged European Union and its efforts are striving to generate an in-depth, shared understanding of issues with the view of providing an improved knowledge base for policies in the fields concerned most important aspects as migration and integration, quality of life and global interdependence.
Social and regional cohesion, cultural and educational challenges are particular aspects of these due to a number of economic, social and cultural changes and instabilities in society and the recent EU enlargements posing some EU regions with particular development questions for the future.
Contextually, the main objective of JPI on Cultural Heritage addresses the strong relationships that link cultural heritage, conservation, technological innovation and economic development within the dynamic framework of the challenges and opportunities presented by an increasingly globalised, environmental and security-conscious society.
Moreover, appropriate responses will be developed through the application of research to the protection of cultural heritage through a multidisciplinary approach involving science, engineering, technology, conservation and culture in a multi-frame space called Scientific Cultural Area, an integrant part of European Research Area, aiming to re-calibrate and reaffirm the European cultural identity as ambassador of excellence for the world wide heritage.

The governance structure

For the JPI implementation the supporting Member States decided to adopt a governing structure with the following aims:

  • activate the most suited combination of public research instruments, regional, national and/or European ones;
  • monitor and evaluate the achievement of the objectives;
  • report at the political level to member states and associated countries, the GPC and the CREST.

The following three-layered governance structure is proposed with a Governing Board (GB), an Executive Board (EB) and a number of Task Forces (TF) as core implementation bodies, as in the Figure reported at the end of the present document. Their work will be supported by a Coordination Structure (CS) and two other bodies the Scientific Committee (SC) and Advisory Board (AB).

The following documents will be produced:

  • Vision Document (VD): The VD is the basic strategic document containing the policy context, the objectives, the state of the art and early indications of broad research priorities.
  • Strategic Research Agenda (SRA): The SRA is the strategic document that, starting from the visions described in the VD, captures the state of the art, outlines the priority research areas to be developed, the objectives, the outcomes and desired impacts, the types of intervention and resources available by country and sector of intervention. The SRA is a tool for preparing the Action Programme (APr).
  • Action Programme (APr): The APr is a programme designed to implement the SRA. The APr will be divided into lines of action in which specific projects submitted for funding can be allocated.
Governance structure

Governance structure