12. December 2008
How My Country Influences My Behaviour
HumVIB, the first EUROCORES programme in the social sciences, kicks off [more]
26. November 2008
Solar energy as a sustainable source of European economic growth
European researchers call for paradigm shift towards clean fuel technologies [more]
26. November 2008
Using water to understand human society – from the industrial revolution to global trade
Water shapes societies, but it is a factor only just beginning to be appreciated by social scientists. The Norwegian professor, writer and film maker Terje Tvedt, of the Universities of Oslo and Bergen, argues that water has played a unique and fundamental role in shaping societies throughout... [more]
19. November 2008
Between Success and Failure
Survey shows significant education discrepancies among the Second Generation in the Netherlands [more]
31. October 2008
Europe seeks consensus over “living wills”
The question whether a common European position on advance directives, or “living wills” is ethically required and practically feasible was discussed at a recent workshop organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF). Just as a conventional will allows people to specify how they would like... [more]
23. October 2008
Europe moves to strengthen its science and engineering labour base
The number of science graduates has been declining over most of Europe but there are no short-term solutions to reverse a trend that threatens the continent’s longer term prosperity and competitiveness. This established drain away from science and engineering taking place both at university level... [more]
15. July 2008
The University of the Future
In a world where economies are increasingly dependent upon high-level knowledge, higher education is a key national resource. But a Forward Look initiated by the European Science Foundation (ESF) shows that we need to know more about how universities, and other higher education institutions, are... [more]
22. February 2008
The new dynamics of European migration
Policy issues on migration in Europe could easily provoke heated debates and generate enormous interest. These issues have recently drawn a crowd of over 40 researchers and about 50 students, journalists, policymakers and others to Nice in December 2007 for an ESF conference on migration and... [more]
19. February 2008
Roger Jowell, the founder of the European Social Survey, gets knighted for contribution in social science
Professor Roger Jowell, the co-founder and director of the European Science Foundation (ESF)- conceived European Social Survey (ESS), was recently awarded a knighthood by the Queen of England for his contribution to the social science field. The ESS was the first methodologically consistent study... [more]
15. February 2008
European Neuroscience and Society Network tackles neurosocieties head-on
The neurosciences have such a wide-ranging influence on so many areas of life that a new concept of the community has developed called “neurosocieties.” To bring this community together, the European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN), funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF), has... [more]
ESF provides the scientific, administrative and technical secretariat for COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).