Upcoming European Research Area (ERA) Act

Tabled by András Gyürk, Auke Zijlstra, Viktória Ferenc, Raffaele Stancanelli, Julie Rechagneux, Ondřej Knotek, Ernő SchallerBaross, Annamária Vicsek, Pál Szekeres, Pascale Piera, György Hölvényi, Enikő Győri, András László, Aleksandar Nikolic, Kinga Gál, Tomáš Kubín, Paolo Borchia, Csaba Dömötör, Tamás Deutsch, Jana Nagyová, Mélanie Disdier, Isabella Tovaglieri

4. Reaffirms the importance of freedom of scientific research and institutional autonomy; Added: considers justified, therefore, the decision of six Hungarian universities (Semmelweis University, Óbuda University, the University of Debrecen, the University of Veterinary Medicine in Budapest, the University of Miskolc and the University of Dunaújváros) to bring an action before the Court of Justice of the European Union for the annulment of the Commission’s measures on the grounds that they unduly interfere with Hungarian universities and disadvantage Hungarian students and researchers through discriminatory restrictions on access to Horizon Europe and exclusion from Erasmus+ programmes; calls for the ERA Act proposal to be accompanied by a separate …

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE784.264v01-00