Setting Science Agendas for Europe
The ESF provides a common platform for its Member Organisations in order to:
- advance European research
- explore new directions for research at the European level
Through its activities, the ESF serves the needs of the European research community in a global context.
News
- Career Tracking - a Tool for Building Quality in Research
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Luxembourg is the host on 9 and 10 February 2012 of an international workshop on tracking of researchers’ career, organised jointly by the Fonds...
- 2020 Signatures for a gender sensitive Horizon 2020
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As a follow up to the First European Gender Summit, a new Manifesto aims to overcome the gender inequalities that still compromise research and...
- ESF Research Networking Programmes are under threat but scientists speak in their defense.
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Nature has recently published in mid-December 2011 a correspondence by Peter Dederichs, Psi-k Research Networking Programme and Jülich Research...
Calls
- European Social Survey Round 7
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ESS Round 7 Call For Question Module Design Teams Now Open
- The ESF Research Networking Programme Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences 2 (QMSS2) launches a call for participants to attend a Summer School in 2012.
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It will provide opportunities for junior researchers to undertake high-level training in the latest developments in quantitative methods. It will...
- The ESF Research Networking Programme Euro-XPRAG is launching its fourth and last call for proposals for 2011. This 4th call aims to encourage collaborations with Europe-based researchers of Experimental Pragmatics.
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The deadline for submitting is January 5th 2012. Applications should be submitted by email to info@euro-xprag.org.
Press Releases
- Improving Medical Treatment Requires a Risk-based Approach to the Regulation of Clinical Trials
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Current EU legislation represents a major hurdle to improving medical treatment due to the straight-jacket of EU legislation that the 2001 Clinical...
- Scientists Identify Strategies to Conquer Lifestyle and Genetic Factors Related to Chronic Diseases
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Recommendations Published in Supplement to The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
- Experts call on governments, industries and the water and trade research communities to address growing global water issues
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UNESCO publishes special report following the European Science Foundation’s strategic workshop: “Accounting for water scarcity and pollution in the...
ESF in the media
- First EU chief scientific adviser named - Nature
Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Cryopreservation in Horticultural Species / Acta Horticulturae Number 908 - COST
Research support at the Alfred Wegener Institute - AWI
Community Media - CMCS
Bridging Greek and Arabic philosophical and linguistic heritage - ERC
The ESF Research Networking Programme Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences 2 (QMSS2) launches a call for participants to attend a Summer School in 2012 - Science News
Research Media announces ESF events partnership - Research Europe
European Science Foundation COST open call - TEESIDE University
Upcoming Conferences
- ESF Policy Conference
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2nd European Energy Conference
Maastricht, Netherlands, 17.4 - 20.4 2012. (closing date: 23. March 2012)
- ESF-LFUI Research Conference
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The Modern Era of Helio and Asteroseismology
Obergurgl, Austria, 20.5 - 25.5 2012. (closing date: 20. February 2012)
- ESF-EMBO Symposium
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Systems Biology of Drosophila Development
Polonia Castle Pultusk, Poland, 21.5 - 26.5 2012. (closing date: 13. February 2012)
The wider world of neuroscience
The latest discoveries in neuroscience – in imaging, in genetics, in the understanding of the mechanisms of mental illness – bring with them new and complex ethical, social and legal implications.
