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

E2C: Shaping the European Energy Agenda

For the second time, the European Energy Conference provides a unique platform for discussion on the latest energy developments. The event will take...

ESF and EMBO come to Pultusk Castle: where the past meets the future

In 2011, ESF and EMBO jointly agreed on moving the ESF-EMBO Symposia on “Molecular Biology at the interface with other disciplines” to Poland, making...

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...

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Calls

HERA Joint Research Programme "Cultural Encounters" Call for Proposals open

New €18.5 million HERA Joint Research Programme “Cultural Encounters” Call for Proposals is now open Deadline for submission of Outline Proposals:...

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...

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Press Releases

Europe Needs a "RESCUE" Revolution

Resolving the world’s major challenges whether climate change, environmental pollution, urbanisation, our ageing population or resource scarcity...

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.

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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: 1. March 2012)

ESF-ICTP Conference in Geometry and Dynamics

Dynamical Systems
Trieste, Italy, 4.6 - 8.6 2012. (closing date: 29. 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.