News & Press Releases
Conference: European University Alliances, Assets for the European Research and Higher Education Areas
April 12, 2022
In the framework of the French Presidency of the Council of Europe, the University of Strasbourg and EPICUR Alliance are organising a conference entitled ‘European University Alliances, assets for the European Research and Higher Education areas’ on 12th April 2022, from 3.00 p.m. to 7 p.m. The event will take place at the Faculté de Droit (Law Faculty)… Read more
Launch of ACCTING, AdvanCing behavioural Change Through an Inclusive Green deal
February 15, 2022
ACCTING, an EU-funded research project the ESF is coordinating, will produce knowledge and innovations to advance behavioural change at individual, group, and societal levels, for an inclusive and equal European Green Deal. This new project has been kicked off on 15 and 16 February 2022 at the ESF and will last 40 months. The global climate crisis… Read more
NuPECC 2020 Review: Strengths and opportunities to shape the future of Nuclear Physics in Europe and beyond
May 10, 2021
The European Science Foundation-Science Connect (ESF-SC) is pleased to announce the publication of the 2020 NuPECC Review report, a high-level, independent, and in-depth review of the activities of Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC) over the period 2014-2020. The Review was undertaken by an international and independent review… Read more
CatRIS Launch Event "Increasing your services' visibility and impact through the CatRIS portal"
February 25, 2021
Online Event: 11 March 2021, 10h00-12h00 CET Summary CatRIS is an open, trusted and user-friendly portal to a harmonised and aggregated catalogue of services and resources provided by Research Infrastructures (RI) and Core Facilities (CF) across Europe. It is a bottom-up initiative that is meant to be populated and run by RI and CF service providers at… Read more
Workshop "Common challenges and actions for distributed Research Infrastructures in Europe"
February 16, 2021
Online Event: 17-18 March 2021, 14h00-17h00 Brussels time Scope The European landscape of research infrastructures has evolved significantly over the past decades, namely by witnessing an increasing number of institutions, facilities and laboratories that have organized and consolidated their operations and services offered to the research community… Read more
Online Event: Promoting Institutional Change towards RRI
November 12, 2020
Free Online Event: Tuesday 1st December 2020, 09:30 to 11:20 (CET) What actually is Responsible Research and Innovation? What are its potential benefits to research funding and performing institutions and to research and innovation ecosystems? Join the European Science Foundation for this two-hour webinar and discover the ressources the GRACE H2020… Read more
The European Space Sciences Committee selects Professor Chris Rapley CBE as its new appointed Chair
May 26, 2020
The European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC), the Expert Committee on Space Sciences of the European Science Foundation (ESF), is pleased to announce the selection of Professor Chris Rapley as its new incoming Chair. Professor Chris Rapley CBE is Professor of Climate Science at the University College London (UCL). With experience in Astronomy, Solar… Read more
The European Science Foundation appoints Véronique Halloin as its new President
April 22, 2020
The European Science Foundation (ESF) announces the appointment of Dr Véronique Halloin as its new President, with a focus on driving the Foundation’s strategy and development for the next three years. A former Professor of Chemical Engineering and General Secretary of the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.- FNRS), Dr Halloin is the first woman at the… Read more
CatRIS addresses all Research Infrastructures that offer COVID-19 relevant research services
April 09, 2020
Identification and access to Research Infrastructures offering services relevant to COVID-19 research is urgently needed for supporting researchers, enhancing collaborations and mapping current efforts and available resources, and this is where CatRIS lends its support. CatRIS is a portal to an aggregated catalogue of services and resources provided… Read more
European Space Science Committee endorses €14.4 billion Space19+ programmes for Europe
December 03, 2019
The European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC) welcomes the outcome of European Space Agency’s (ESA) Council Meeting, held on November, 27-28 in Seville, Spain, and strongly supports the subscription of the science programmes by the Member States. The European Science Foundation’s (ESF) Expert Committee on space sciences and Europe’s advisor on space… Read more