Membership of the EMRC Core Group

The Core Group membership is defined in the ESF Rules of Procedures available at www.esf.org/about-us/how-we-operate.
In general terms the Core Group should endeavour to achieve both a regional, gender and scientific balance. National Groups contributing more than 10% of the ESF General Budget have the right to a seat on the Core Group. A scheme for the rotation of Core Group membership will be established by each Committee. The Chief Executive shall have the responsibility to monitor Core Groups membership with regard to their balanced representation.

This means in practical terms for the EMRC that there is one delegate representing the following countries or group of countries:

  • the four countries contributing more than 10% of the ESF General Budget, i.e., France, Germany, Italy and the United-Kingdom.
  • the following groups of countries according to a regional balance:
  1. Nordic Medical Research Councils i.e., Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway*, Sweden.
  2. Southern European Countries i.e., Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, Spain*, Turkey
  3. Medium European Countries i.e., Austria, Belgium*, Ireland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, The Netherlands.
  4. Central & Eastern European Countries, i.e., Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic*, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia

* current status

Members

Professor Liselotte Højgaard (chair)
Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Medium European Countries
Professor Roger Bouillon
Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO), Lab. of Exp. Medicine and Endocrinology, Leuven, Belgium

Central and Eastern European Countries
Professor Josef Syka
Czech Science Foundation (GACR), Prague, Czech Republic

France
Dr. Anne Bisagni
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de la Politique Régionale et Européenne, Paris, France

Germany
Professor Martin Röllinghoff
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Nuremberg University, Germany

Italy
Dr. Giovanni Pacini
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy

Nordic Medical Research Councils 
Professor Stig Slørdahl
The Research Council of Norway (RCN) Trondheim, Norway

Southern European Countries
Professor Isabel Varela-Nieto
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

United Kingdom
Dr. Mark Palmer
Medical Research Council (MRC), London, United Kingdom

Observer

Dr. Georg Munz
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bonn, Germany