At the end of January 2008, CEPS RAP issued the Final Report for the European Parliament on evaluation of the EU funding of research in the fields of nuclear fusion and aerospace/aeronautics. The Report, authored by Andrea Renda, Donatas Mykolaitis and Alice Felci, analyses the allocation of budgetary resources to research in these two fields during the 2006-2008 timeframe, by evaluating the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and usefulness of actions undertaken. Particular emphasis is put on the potential to improve funding arrangements in two large projects, ITER and GALILEO. In the final recommendations, the Report concludes that contractual arrangements should be improved in order to avoid unnecessary contractual risks, especially in public-private partnerships for research; coordination between short- and long-term policy and research goals should be strengthened; and projects funded should respond to the needed “energy mix”, instead of allocating the lion’s share of funding to nuclear fusion energy. The report contributed to the debate on the EU budget, and was presented at the European Parliament in Brussels on April 8 2008.