The discussions covered a broad range of topics, including developments on the European Research Area (ERA), forthcoming work of EUA’s Expert Group on Science 2.0/Open Science, and progress on the FP7 UNI-SET project. Particular attention was paid to preliminary discussions on the future EU Research Framework Programme (FP9; 2021-2027). In this respect, RPWG members took stock of outcomes of the ex-post evaluation of FP7, the 2015 Lund Declaration, discussions of the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the European Commission’s (EC) Horizon 2020 mid-term review. EUA is currently conducting a survey for its membership to collect evidence of their experience, with a view to the mid-term review of Horizon 2020. More...