News & Press Releases
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
Open Access gathers momentum: 10 organisations pledge financial support
November 25, 2019
To support the implementation of Plan S, the European Science Foundation, in partnership with cOAlition S, will host and operate a newly established cOAlition S office. To date, 10 funders, including national funding agencies and philanthropic organisations, have pledged support of over €2m for this activity. Plan S is an initiative for Open Access… Read more
European Science Foundation identifies the best research proposals for funding on behalf of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)
November 14, 2019
Between December 2018 and August 2019, the European Science Foundation (ESF) – Science Connect provided to the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) with almost 5000 validated evaluations for research proposals, spanning all domains of research. All evaluation reports put together, they would represent a book of 11,000 pages. This is ESF’s largest grant… 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
How can Europe explore further, understand more and prepare better for adverse Space Weather effects?
October 10, 2019
A special report from international experts, spearheaded by the European Science Foundation’s European Space Science Committee, explains the challenges and provides a set of recommendations Based on two years’ continuing assessment of European activities in the realm of Space Weather, the European Space Science Committee (ESSC), an Expert Board on… 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
European Science Foundation announces appointment of new Chief Executive, Mr N.Walter
May 27, 2019
Mr Nicolas Walter has been appointed Chief Executive of the Strasbourg-based European Science Foundation (ESF), effective 1 July 2019. With 17 years’ experience in research management, Mr Walter will lead the organization in its next phase of development. Over the past three years, he has been restructuring ESF’s grant evaluation activities, from the… 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