ESF is celebrating its 50th anniversary!

In 2024, ESF is celebrating its 50th anniversary! Over the past 50 years, ESF has positioned itself as a major actor in supporting research management at an international level. In recent years, its main lines of action have focused on connecting stakeholders and enabling the implementation of science operations, from grant evaluation and research assessment to projects, networks, and programme management, adapting to a rapidly changing research area and meeting new societal needs. Save the date for its anniversary event, held in Strasbourg on 26 June 2024.

Catalysing research in a changing environment: towards a lasting impact

26 June 2024, Strasbourg, Villa Sturm
14:00 – 18:00 CET

Over the past 50 years, ESF has positioned itself as a major actor in catalysing research management at an international level. In recent years, its main lines of action have focused on connecting stakeholders and enabling the implementation of science operations, adapting to a rapidly changing research area and meeting new societal needs.


As ESF looks towards the years ahead, we reflect on the challenges related to improving the quality of research management, from grant evaluation and research assessment to projects, networks, and programme management. In the light of a changing European Research Area and ongoing crises, what does sustainable science management mean today? This anniversary event will showcase how an organisation such as ESF can meaningfully contribute to the European Research Area by exploiting a unique positioning, while exploring concrete pathways towards developing and implementing research initiatives that are relevant to societal needs and have a lasting and meaningful impact on various stakeholders, from better assessing research to building long-term networks, and encompassing responsible research and innovation values. 
 

Overall programme
 
14:00     Welcome Coffee and Registration
 
14:15    Opening Speeches
 
14:45     Looking Back to 50 years of ESF
 
14:55     Keynote: “Catalysing Research in a Changing Environment”
 
15:25     Panel: “Addressing New Challenges in the Assessment of Research Proposals”
 
16:00     Coffee Break
 
16:30     Panel: “Sustained Infrastructures for European Research”
 
17:05    Panel: “Embedding Inclusivity in Science”
 
17:40    Wrap-up with Key Messages.
 
18:00    Networking Reception

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Attendance to the event is upon invitation. To request an invitation, we invite you to submit your details in the following form.

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More information: esf50[at]esf.org