Science Europe Member Organisations are working hard to address the current COVID-19 pandemic. What are they doing?
Science Europe is the association representing major public organisations that fund or perform excellent, ground-breaking research in Europe.
We bring together the expertise of some of the largest and best-known research organisations in the world to jointly push the frontiers of how scientific research is produced and delivers benefits to society.
We advocate science and the scientific community to help build the European Research Area and shape the global scientific agenda.
With members from 27 EU and non-EU countries and from all parts of Europe, we speak with a truly European voice.
Bringing together research funding and research performing organisations.
Our members make a significant contribution to European scientific research and are crucial stakeholders in European science and research policymaking
The Research and Innovation (R&I) sector has been sacrificed in these budget negotiations, when it should have been the spearhead of an ambitious, future-oriented, knowledge-based plan for Europe. Science Europe now calls the European Parliament and the European Commission, as the protectors of European R&I, to continue taking a strong stand in favour of a larger budget for Horizon Europe
Science Europe calls on research funding and performing organisations to continuously evaluate their research assessment processes to ensure that they are effective, efficient, fair, and transparent.
A shift is under way to improve the effectiveness & efficiency of Research Assessment processes.
Nature Careers looks into Science Europe's most recent report on looking beyond publication records and instead asses the societal impact and contributions to knowledge and policy when awarding grants and promotions.
Lidia Borrell-Damián, Science Europe Secretary General, quoted in Research Europe saying that the EU budget deal comes at a "huge cost for the future of Europe.”
Insistence on ‘excellent’ research is commonplace, but Science Europ warns that it can damage integrity and foster ruthless competition when poorly defined
