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.

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News

Career Tracking - a Tool for Building Quality in Research

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

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.

Nature has recently published in mid-December 2011 a correspondence by Peter Dederichs, Psi-k Research Networking Programme and Jülich Research...

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Calls

European Social Survey Round 7

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.

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.

The deadline for submitting is January 5th 2012. Applications should be submitted by email to info@euro-xprag.org.

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Press Releases

Improving Medical Treatment Requires a Risk-based Approach to the Regulation of Clinical Trials

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

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

UNESCO publishes special report following the European Science Foundation’s strategic workshop: “Accounting for water scarcity and pollution in the...

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ESF in the media

Upcoming Conferences

ESF Policy Conference

2nd European Energy Conference
Maastricht, Netherlands, 17.4 - 20.4 2012. (closing date: 23. March 2012)

ESF-LFUI Research Conference

The Modern Era of Helio and Asteroseismology
Obergurgl, Austria, 20.5 - 25.5 2012. (closing date: 20. February 2012)

ESF-EMBO Symposium

Systems Biology of Drosophila Development
Polonia Castle Pultusk, Poland, 21.5 - 26.5 2012. (closing date: 13. February 2012)

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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.