Report of a workshop on “Supporting the preparation of future European Partnerships” that was organised by ERA-LEARN in collaboration with the European Commission and took place 9-10 March 2020 in Brussels. More than 150 representatives of candidate Partnerships, national ministries, major national/regional funding agencies and Commission services involved in the preparation of the new European Partnerships were brought together in order to: ― support the preparation of future European Partnerships with Member States, ― identify critical issues and bottlenecks related to governance, commitments, coherence, synergies, development of Strategic Research and Innovation Agendas, management of data on calls, projects and other activities; and ― support the development of common approaches across partnerships, ensuring mutual learning and exchange of good practice to ensure the delivery of impacts