EUA participated in a panel reflecting stakeholders’ views, alongside the European Court of Auditors and the European Parliament, and brought forward the outcomes of its own large-scale membership consultation on the mid-term review, to support the following points:

  • Simplification must benefit the beneficiaries;
  • Accepting nationally-recognised management and accounting practices is the most important step towards effective simplification;
  • Measures presented on additional remuneration cannot alone address the challenges involved in widening participation;
  • Financial instruments must be designed in full recognition of the specificities of research work (and therefore not be result-based). More...