id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-025724-ea09nbkh Mitzner, Veera Conclusion and Further Thoughts 2020-05-30 .txt text/plain 8542 411 48 13 In 2012, the Commission defined ERA as "a unified research area open to the world based on the Internal Market, in which researchers, scientific knowledge and technology circulate freely and through which the Union and its Member States strengthen their scientific and technological bases, their competitiveness and their capacity to collectively address grand challenges." 14 ERA was launched in the political framework of the Lisbon European Council of March 2000, where the EU set itself the new strategic goal of becoming "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth, with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion." 15 In Lisbon, research and development were drawn to the center of the EU's strategy for achieving its goal by 2010. ./cache/cord-025724-ea09nbkh.txt ./txt/cord-025724-ea09nbkh.txt