European Science Foundation

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.

COST is one of the longest-running instruments supporting co-operation among scientists and researchers across Europe.

News

Professor Marja Makarow becomes new CEO for the European Science Foundation
(3 January 2008) The new year marks a new era for the European Science Foundation...
Editorial: Technology with a human face
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EUROCORES conference gives cold quantum matter a European twist
  ESF’s EuroQUAM Programme holds Inauguration Conference

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Latest Calls

Calls for Proposal for MedCLIVAR's meetings in 2009
MedCLIVAR has assigned a total 30Keuros for the organisation of workshops/conferences that will...
Call for Proposals for RNP 'From Natural Philosophy to Science' Summer School
The Research Networking Programme From Natural Philosophy to Science has launched a...
Call for Proposals for EARTH Summer School
The Research Networking Programme on Early Agricultural Remnants and Technical Heritage...

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Calendar

  • First Marine Board Forum 15 May 2008
  • B Cells 2008, 16-21 May 2008
  • Natural Products Chemistry, Biology and Medicine, 18-23 May 2008
  • The Transfer of Resources across Generations, 9-13 June 2008
  • Nanotechnology for Sustainable Energy, 14-19 June 2008
  • Operator Theory, Analysis and Mathematical Physics, 15-22 June 2008
  • International Workshop on Biology of Cancer, 25-28 June 2008
  • Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF), 18-22 July 2008
  • Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics, 27 June-2 July 2008
  • Reforming the European State System in the Long Eighteenth Century,
    10-14 September 2008
  • Bacterial Networks, 13-18 September 2008
  • The Right of the City, 11-15 October 2008
  • New Challenges in Earthquake Dynamics, 18-23 October 2008

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