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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. Click on image to read our Strategic Plan 2006-2010. CueDirectoryall about cars

COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is one of the longest-running European instruments supporting co-operation among scientists and researchers across Europe.
The ESF is the legal entity which provides and manages the scientific, administrative and technical secretariat for COST.

News

Scientists at climate talks say major changes to the nitrogen cycle cannot be ignored
An international group of scientists say there is an immediate need for a global assessment of the...
International peer review of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences published
The first comprehensive international scientific review of the research units of the Bulgarian...
Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months
In the film, ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within...

Latest Calls

EUROCORES Calls for Outline Proposals
Seven new EUROCORES Programmes have published their calls
Research grants in experimental pragmatics
RNP EURO-XPRAG second call for proposals now open
Call for Proposals in the social sciences
ESF has launched the 2010 ECRP Call for Proposals

Announcements

Towards European Alliance for Research Career Development
ESF MO Forum on Research Careers proposes concrete actions to set up a common strategy for research careers in Europe

New book to examine 20th century medicine and pharmacy
ESF RNP in the humanities ‘Standard Drugs and Drug Standards’ publishes its first results.

Looking to the future for mathematics in Europe
An update on the Maths and Industry Forward Look

European Research Area Board releases annual report




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