How can I benefit from NETWATCH? - Research policy maker

NETWATCH offers for you as a National RTD policy maker:

• Information, such as statistics on national and European programme actors, programmes and programme cooperation participation
  
  
• Analysis, such as the thematic overlap, the ratio of participation in ERA-NETs, national programmes across Europe, the degree of involvement of national programmes and programme agencies and the effects of successful Joint Programming in terms of leverage on budget, project and researchers, etc.

NETWATCH offers for you as a EU policy maker (especially within the European Commission, but also within other EU Institutions):

• Information, such as an overview of existing national RTD programmes and related statistics based on ERA-NETs, programme budgets, Joint Programming activities
  
  
• Analysis, such as thematic complementarities and overlap of RTD programmes at national Member State and EU level, leverage in terms of budgets and participation (RTD participants, researchers) in transnational joint activities
  
  
• In future, assessments of the effects of the monitored Joint Programming activities for the European Research Area (ERA).