Corporate Science Policy Initiatives

ESF governing and scientific bodies monitor emerging science policy challenges likely to impact on the way science is being funded and research is conducted. ESF together with its member organisations and other key players join efforts in helping raise awareness of pressing issues providing a venue to discuss common strategies and developed adequate solutions.


The Second World Conference on Research Integrity

The First World Conference on Research Integrity held in Lisbon, Portugal in September 2007, and organised by the ESF, addressed the creation and promotion of a worldwide understanding of the key issues of research misconduct policy, responsible conduct of research, education and the promotion of professional responsibility in research.

The Second World Conference on Research Integrity, to be held in Singapore, is a further opportunity to:

  • Explore research integrity issues in depth
  • Demonstrate the global research community’s commitment to the highest standards of behaviour in research
  • Develop the global networks and understandings needed to maintain public confidence in research in whatever field and wherever it is undertaken

ESF will present then the European Position towards Research Integrity developed within the ESF MO Forum on Research Integrity. More information at:  http://www.wcri2010.org/

 

ESF-ORI Workshop "Responsible Conduct of Research: Good Research Practices and Research Integrity Training"

The European Science Foundation (ESF) together with the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) organised a Workshop entitled, “Responsible Conduct of Research:  Good Research Practices and Research Integrity Training.” 

The ESF-ORI Workshop took place in ESF's Headquarters in Strasbourg, France, on 27-28 October 2009.

The Workshop brought together experts to talk about the needs and future directions of research integrity education in Europe, in the framework of the ESF’s Member Organisation Forum on Research Integrity.  Moreover, some institutions around the world have been offering this type of training for nearly two decades, in part in response to government regulations and in part at the recommendation of several influential reports.  Similar programmes are developing in Europe, which present opportunities for European-wide cooperation and coordination.

Discussion at the workshop centered around opportunities to establish common educational goals and benchmarks for research integrity education across Europe and ways to enhance the content, delivery, and assessment of research integrity education.  The goals of this discussion were twofold:  first to discuss how to better organise research integrity education across Europe and to encourage cooperation with the US; and second to prepare a European contribution, in particular that of the European Science Foundation, to the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, to be held in Singapore, on 24-26 July, 2010.

For further information, please contact:

Dr.VanessaCampo RuizE-Mail
Science Officer



ESF-ZWM Seminar: Future Leaders in European Science Policy and Research

The ESF-ZWM Seminar took place in Strasbourg, France, on 5-7 February 2009.

This short course was aimed at highly-qualified early-career research administrators and research scientists from ESF Member Organisations and similar backgrounds. It was jointly run by the European Science Foundation and the ZWM (Centre for Research and Science Management, Speyer) in order to to broaden the skills and experience of the participants, and to reinforce the skills base available to research organisations and the ERA, both individually and collectively.

Global challenges and the need for cooperation: Lessons learnt from Global Change

The second ESF Science Policy Conference & Assembly was held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 26-28 November 2008, at the kind invitation of the Swedish ESF Member Organisations. 

Strengthening the role of Academies in ESF. An ESF–ALLEA High Level Workshop on ESF and the Academies

The European Science Foundation (ESF) and the European Federation of National Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) are organising a High Level Workshop on ESF and the Academies.

The Workshop took place on 7 March 2008 at the ESF Brussels Office.