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Zero-tolerance to gender-based violence in higher education and research: GenderSAFE, a new EU-funded project to promote comprehensive institutional policies.
March 14, 2024
Kicked off on 14 March 2024, the GenderSAFE project will be supporting European research and higher education institutions in developing, implementing and monitoring comprehensive policies to end gender-based violence. Gender-based violence is a persistent problem in higher education and research institutions across the European Research Area, with… 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 Science Foundation consults with its Community of Experts for the future of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
October 29, 2019
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) have been successful; How should they evolve? The MSCA actions have been exceptionally successful and appreciated for over two decades. In preparation for the continuation of the awards under the Horizon Europe programme (2021-2027), representatives from stakeholder organisations, MSCA fellows and doctoral or… Read more
150th Anniversary of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements
June 28, 2019
For 150 years, the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements has been providing an alphabet and a common key to understand our Universe for natural scientists worldwide. The ESF President Martin Hynes would like to join E-MRS and Secretary General Paul Siffert in celebrating the International Year of the Periodic Table and acknowledging this important… Read more
New set of ESF online archives now available for research
May 13, 2019
The European Science Foundation (ESF) and the Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU) are pleased to announce that a new group of 330 files of the ESF historical archives have been inventoried and made available for research in the HAEU online database. Thanks to this new release, a significant amount of the Foundation’s archival files is now open… Read more