Last annual NRP 77 Programme Meeting
Five years of research have passed. For the last time for now, all NRP 77 research teams came together at the annual Programme Meeting and presented their results and recommendations to the Steering Committee.
On Monday 3 June and Tuesday 4 June 2024, all 46 NRP 77 research teams came together for the last time for now. Five years of research are over, and the National Research Programme (NRP 77) "Digital Transformation" has reached the home stretch.
At the annual Programme Meetings, the research teams present their results to the Steering Committee and the other researchers from their module. The Steering Committee not only focused on the quality of the research, but also asked the researchers critical questions about their results.
Each team derived recommendations for policy and practice from their research. They each had five minutes to present and explain these recommendations, with a further five minutes for questions from the Steering Committee.
After two intensive days, Abraham Bernstein, President of the Steering Committee, was left with his head spinning: "The scope of the results is incredible. On the one hand, we have extremely valuable research results of almost inconceivable breadth and depth. On the other, we can take the recommendations from the researchers that we requested for the Programme Meeting to the commissioning authorities because in the end we have to deliver something tangible to our stakeholders. What has been achieved in NRP77 is enormous and almost impossible to grasp and get your head around. It really is incredible."
You can find an overview of all the NRP77 research projects here.
What comes next?
The research phase of NRP 77 will continue until the end of the year. All research teams must submit their final reports by that date at the latest. The final results of the individual research projects are regularly reported on this website and on the NRP 77 social media channels (LinkedIn / X).
The Steering Committee, comprising renowned researchers from around the world, reviews and evaluates the individual project results. It also decides on a concept for preparing a programme synthesis. This will bring together the key results and recommendations in an expanded and coherent final product, address the questions posed in the call for proposals and place the results of the NRP 77 research in a broader context.
We are currently working on defining the exact form of the NRP 77 programme synthesis as quickly as possible.
