PPMI | Part of the Verian Group together with IDEA Consult will produce the 2026 and 2028 editions of the Biennial Monitoring Report (BMR) on the performance of European Partnerships, commissioned by DG RTD of the European Commission.
European Partnerships are one of the key instruments of Horizon Europe and the European Research Area, bringing the European Commission together with private and public partners to address Europe's most pressing challenges through concerted R&I initiatives. By pooling resources and aligning strategies, they help avoid duplication of investments and reduce fragmentation across the EU research and innovation landscape.
The Biennial Monitoring Report (BMR) provides a regular, evidence-based assessment of this portfolio – conducted every two years, with four editions across 2022–2028 – to support strategic discussions on partnership policies, enhance transparency, and contribute to Horizon Europe's broader monitoring and evaluation efforts. Our assignment goes beyond previous cycles by updating and strengthening the Common Indicator Framework originally developed by an independent expert group, and by introducing competitiveness as the 2026 thematic focus – a particularly timely choice given the renewed EU-level urgency around technological leadership and economic resilience.
The main activities under this assignment include:
- Review and refinement of the monitoring framework: Building on the BMR 2022 and 2024 experience, the team is systematically reviewing existing indicators to sharpen definitions, reduce reporting burden, improve data quality, and establish a dedicated competitiveness monitoring framework.
- Large-scale data collection and support: The project manages a multi-stream data collection effort involving a Common Indicators Survey administered to partnerships, pre-filled country and partnership fiches, and data extraction from Commission databases. A structured support function – including proactive guidance, a dedicated helpdesk, and regular office hours – helps partnerships and countries navigate the process, improve data quality, and reduce the administrative burden.
- Comprehensive analysis across three monitoring levels: The analytical framework operates at the level of the Common Indicator Framework (assessing partnerships as policy instruments against criteria such as additionality, directionality, and transparency), Partnership-Specific Impact Pathways (tracking progress against each partnership's own strategic objectives), and Horizon Europe Key Impact Pathways (capturing scientific, societal, and economic/technological impacts). These are complemented by thematic analyses of competitiveness.
- Accessible outputs: The project delivers two full Biennial Monitoring Reports, including partnership and country fiches, 20 thematic factsheets, press releases, official presentations, dissemination events – providing stakeholders across EU institutions, national authorities, and the research and innovation community with accessible, dynamic access to partnership performance data.
