Setting Science Agendas for Europe
The ESF provides a common platform for its Member Organisations in order to:
- advance European research
- explore new directions for research at the European level
Through its activities, the ESF serves the needs of the European research community in a global context.
News
- E2C: Shaping the European Energy Agenda
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For the second time, the European Energy Conference provides a unique platform for discussion on the latest energy developments. The event will take...
- ESF and EMBO come to Pultusk Castle: where the past meets the future
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In 2011, ESF and EMBO jointly agreed on moving the ESF-EMBO Symposia on “Molecular Biology at the interface with other disciplines” to Poland, making...
- Career Tracking - a Tool for Building Quality in Research
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Luxembourg is the host on 9 and 10 February 2012 of an international workshop on tracking of researchers’ career, organised jointly by the Fonds...
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Calls
- HERA Joint Research Programme "Cultural Encounters" Call for Proposals open
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New €18.5 million HERA Joint Research Programme “Cultural Encounters” Call for Proposals is now open Deadline for submission of Outline Proposals:...
- European Social Survey Round 7
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ESS Round 7 Call For Question Module Design Teams Now Open
- The ESF Research Networking Programme Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences 2 (QMSS2) launches a call for participants to attend a Summer School in 2012.
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It will provide opportunities for junior researchers to undertake high-level training in the latest developments in quantitative methods. It will...
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Press Releases
- Europe Needs a "RESCUE" Revolution
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Resolving the world’s major challenges whether climate change, environmental pollution, urbanisation, our ageing population or resource scarcity...
- Improving Medical Treatment Requires a Risk-based Approach to the Regulation of Clinical Trials
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Current EU legislation represents a major hurdle to improving medical treatment due to the straight-jacket of EU legislation that the 2001 Clinical...
- Scientists Identify Strategies to Conquer Lifestyle and Genetic Factors Related to Chronic Diseases
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Recommendations Published in Supplement to The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
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ESF in the media
- First EU chief scientific adviser named - Nature
Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Cryopreservation in Horticultural Species / Acta Horticulturae Number 908 - COST
Research support at the Alfred Wegener Institute - AWI
Community Media - CMCS
Bridging Greek and Arabic philosophical and linguistic heritage - ERC
The ESF Research Networking Programme Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences 2 (QMSS2) launches a call for participants to attend a Summer School in 2012 - Science News
Research Media announces ESF events partnership - Research Europe
European Science Foundation COST open call - TEESIDE University
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Upcoming Conferences
- ESF Policy Conference
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2nd European Energy Conference
Maastricht, Netherlands, 17.4 - 20.4 2012. (closing date: 23. March 2012)
- ESF-LFUI Research Conference
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The Modern Era of Helio and Asteroseismology
Obergurgl, Austria, 20.5 - 25.5 2012. (closing date: 1. March 2012)
- ESF-ICTP Conference in Geometry and Dynamics
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Dynamical Systems
Trieste, Italy, 4.6 - 8.6 2012. (closing date: 29. February 2012)
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The wider world of neuroscience
The latest discoveries in neuroscience – in imaging, in genetics, in the understanding of the mechanisms of mental illness – bring with them new and complex ethical, social and legal implications.
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