The Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) is chaired by Professor Milena Žic Fuchs, Chair of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of Zagreb and Full Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
The Committee is composed of its members, leading scientists nominated by the ESF Member Organisations (research councils or academies) working in the humanities and observers from other humanities institutions not belonging to ESF.
The main tasks of the Committee are:
- to encourage interdisciplinary work through the independent evaluation of collaborative research proposals emanating from the scholarly community;
- to identify priority research areas and to play an integrative and co-ordinating role by creating links between research communities which in the Humanities are often small and fragmented;
- to contribute to the development of the ESF science policy agenda and to provide expert advice on science policy actions at the European level in the field of its responsibilities.
The Committee is well aware that the ESF is the only European agency where the Humanities have a place next to the other sciences and where European projects are reviewed, developed and subsequently operated.
The Committee considers it all the more important to be heard as the voice of the Human Sciences in Europe and to continue pleading for a more prominent place for the Humanities in the European landscape.
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