The ERA-NETs ICT-AGRI-FOOD and CHIST-ERA (https://www.chistera.eu) has organised a joint online workshop on November 23, 2020. The goal of this workshop was bringing together the ERA-NETs' research funding organisations and experts for adapting the format of a Challenge call to the multilateral framework and to the respective thematic scopes of these ERA-NETs.
The workshop addresses the following objectives:
Review of different Challenge initiatives
Assess opportunity of launching a Challenge call within an ERA-NET
Discuss what a suitable topic is for a Challenge call
Estimate the required resources
Establish methodology and calendar of the call preparation
The conclusions contribute to the shaping of the Challenge call format for CHIST-ERA and of the related implementation roadmap and to provide recommendations for launching a Challenge call for ICT-AGRI-FOOD.
The programme features a combination of keynote talks in plenary and facilitated parallel brainstorming sessions.
Meeting part
Content
Format
I
Review of Challenge initiatives in Europe and overseas: Format, objectives and expected impact
Plenary
II
Challenges examples: Evaluation campaigns organisation, impact on research
Plenary
III
Brainstorming session: Topic suitability, call launch and evaluation campaigns organisation within an ERA-NET
Parallel sessions
IV
Parallel sessions for CHIST-ERA and ICT-AGRI-FOOD to discuss specifics (candidate topics suitability…)
Parallel sessions
The workshop is open to any interested person free of charge, in particular to the researchers involved in evaluation campaigns organisation and to other ERA-NET-like multilateral partnerships of research funders willing to assess the opportunity to launch a call in the Challenge format.
Challenge Call: A Challenge call for research proposals targets a focused scientific objective. The selected projects all share this common objective proposing different approaches. Their progress is regularly assessed during their lifetime through so-called evaluation campaigns gathering all the projects The evaluation campaigns involve metrics and protocols implemented by the evaluation campaign organisers. The scheme combines competition among selected projects and cooperation: Data sharing and networking across projects are promoted.
The ERA-NETs ICT-AGRI-FOOD and CHIST-ERA (https://www.chistera.eu) has organised a joint online workshop on November 23, 2020. The goal of this workshop was bringing together the ERA-NETs' research funding organisations and experts for adapting the format of a Challenge call to the multilateral framework and to the respective thematic scopes of these ERA-NETs.
The conclusions contribute to the shaping of the Challenge call format for CHIST-ERA and of the related implementation roadmap and to provide recommendations for launching a Challenge call for ICT-AGRI-FOOD.
The programme features a combination of keynote talks in plenary and facilitated parallel brainstorming sessions.
Meeting part
Content
Format
I
Review of Challenge initiatives in Europe and overseas: Format, objectives and expected impact
Plenary
II
Challenges examples: Evaluation campaigns organisation, impact on research
Plenary
III
Brainstorming session: Topic suitability, call launch and evaluation campaigns organisation within an ERA-NET
Parallel sessions
IV
Parallel sessions for CHIST-ERA and ICT-AGRI-FOOD to discuss specifics (candidate topics suitability…)
Parallel sessions
The workshop is open to any interested person free of charge, in particular to the researchers involved in evaluation campaigns organisation and to other ERA-NET-like multilateral partnerships of research funders willing to assess the opportunity to launch a call in the Challenge format.
Challenge Call: A Challenge call for research proposals targets a focused scientific objective. The selected projects all share this common objective proposing different approaches. Their progress is regularly assessed during their lifetime through so-called evaluation campaigns gathering all the projects The evaluation campaigns involve metrics and protocols implemented by the evaluation campaign organisers. The scheme combines competition among selected projects and cooperation: Data sharing and networking across projects are promoted.
Contact: Isabelle.HIPPOLYTE@agencerecherche.fr