Science Policy activities 1998-2001

ESF Plan 1998-2001 developed an ambitious science policy agenda covering a broad range of areas. Science Policy initiatives undertaken in this period were aimed at facilitating a process in which national research organisations can learn and understand each other, while encouraging MO's to compete within the challenging European environment for research and contribute to the debate about the European Research Area (ERA) which at this time was being endorsed at highest level.

Selected activities undertaken either ESF corporately or through the ESF Standing Committees and Experts Boards in the period of ESF Plan 1998-2001 are:

• Contributing to the shaping of the European Research Area (ERA). ESF position papers and comments (1998-2001)

• Future of Europe in Space Research - ESF recommendations to Ministers of ESA Member States
  An ESSC-ESF Position Paper (October 2001)

• Science of Risk - Risk of Science
  Seminar on Perils and Prospects of the new Brain Sciences - Stockholm (September 2001)

• Use of animals in research
  ESF Science Policy Briefing N°15 (August 2001 - second edition)

• Human stem cell research: Scientific uncertainties and ethical dilemmas
  ESF Science Policy Briefing N°14 (June 2001)

• Controlled clinical trials
  ESF Science Policy Briefing N°13 (Mai 2001)

• Genetically modified plants
  ESF Science Policy Briefing N°12 (April 2001)

• Are we daring enough? Conservatism in science system
  ESF Science Policy Briefing N°11 (March 2001)

• Navigating the future. Towards a Marine European Research Area
  ESF Marine Board Position Paper N°3 (March 2001)

• Good Research Practice
  ESF science Policy Briefing N°10 (December 2000)

• Future of international collaboration in Space Science
  A Study by ESSC-ESF November 2000

• Research and Innovation : Developing the partnership between research and risk finance
  ESF science Policy Briefing N°8 (August 2000)

• The need for High Bandwidth computer bases networking in Europe
  ESF science Policy Briefing N°7 (February 2000)

• Digital Collaboration Technologies, the Organisation of Scientific Work and the Economics of Knowledge Access
  An ESF-IIASA-NSF initiative, December 1999, Laxenburg Austria

• Toward European Space Policy
  ESF science Policy Briefing N°5 (November 1999)

• Consensus conference on the theory and practice of research assessment
  ESF science Policy Briefing N°3 (June 1998)

• Environment and Health Research for Europe)
  A Background Document to the Third Ministerial Conference on Environment & Health London, June 1999. PDF

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