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Science Europe welcomes the launch or renewal of national open science strategies in several European countries.

The 2023 Annual Meeting of the Global Research Council took place in The Hague from 29 May to 2 June. The event, co-hosted by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), brought together the world’s leading research funding agencies to discuss Rewarding and Recognising Scientists as well as Climate Change Research.

Science Europe participated in a High-level Summit and International Scientific Symposium organised by the Human Frontier Science Programme Organisation (HFSPO) on 27–29 June 2023, in partnership with UNESCO and other research institutions including ANR, CNRS, EMBL, ERC and the International Science Council (ISC).

The Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) held its first General Assembly on 23 June. It provided updates on the association, activities in the coming months, and news on the call for Working Groups and National Chapters.

Science Europe and the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine in the USA (NASEM) collaborated on a series of workshops on 'Preserving and Developing Ukraine's Human Capital in Research, Education, and Innovation'.

Science Europe's 2022 Annual Report highlights the most important achievements of 2022 on Science Europe’s priority topics, including research culture, research assessment, open science, EU framework programmes, the green and digital transition, and science communication.

The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S-FNRS), and Science Europe are delighted to announce they are co-organising a High Level Conference on Science Communication from 12–13 March 2024. Mark it in your calendars!

On Tuesday 30 May, Science Europe & CoARA jointly organised a side event at the Global Research Council Annual Meeting in The Hague, the Netherlands. The event, entitled ‘Making Research Assessment Reform a Global Endeavour’, aimed to provoke a discussion on research assessment reform across all five Global Research Council regions.

Science Europe is pleased to invite you to register for the ‘Global Summit on Diamond Open Access / Cumbre Global sobre Acceso Abierto Diamante’. This hybrid and multilingual series of events will take place from 23 to 27 October 2023 in Toluca, Mexico.

Science Europe is pleased to present the report of its Conference on Open Science. The conference, which took place on 18 and 19 October 2022 in Brussels, Belgium, and online, brought together close to 600 participants, including 36 expert speakers, for a discussion on open science and its role in the European and global research landscape. 

Science Europe is delighted to welcome the Austrian Academy of Sciences as a new member. A world-leading national research performing organisation, the Academy is Austria’s largest non-university research and science institution.

It is the opinion of European public R&I actors that publicly funded research and its results should be immediately and openly available to all, without barriers. This is essential to drive knowledge forward, promote innovation, and tackle social issues.

Gender equality and diversity are essential components of scientific quality. Science Europe works to promote a research ecosystem where all scholars can realise their potential regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, religion, disabilities, ethnic origin, or social background. 

Science Europe is pleased to announce that it is signing the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). 

Science Europe, along with the European University Association (EUA) and the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER), supports the environmental goals set by the EU's sustainable finance taxonomy regulation. However, Science Europe calls for caution regarding the broad application of the Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) principle to all projects under European research and innovation (R&I) framework programmes, including Horizon Europe. 

In 2023, Science Europe continues working with its Member Organisations to reinforce the collective capacity to communicate research more effectively and to enhance the communication of science to society. Science Communication emerged as a new priority area in itself in the framework of Science Europe’s Strategy Plan 2021–2026. 

“Science can and shall contribute to improving our societies”. With these words, the new Science Europe study “Science–Policy in Action. Insights for the Green and Digital Transition” starts with the analysis and mapping of Science Europe member organisations’ science–policy interfaces.

On Tuesday 28 March, the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) took a big step forward by launching its call for Working Group proposals and national chapters. CoARA is a community initiative at its core, and therefore the working groups will be central to the success of the initiative and to the reform process more generally.

In summer 2022 a group of mathematicians of Ukrainian origin initiated an ambitious project – a new Centre for mathematical sciences with a mission to support top-level research in mathematics and train younger generations of scientists. The International Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine was subsequently registered in Ukraine in autumn 2022.

The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission organised a workshop on ‘An EU copyright & data legislative framework fit for research: barriers, challenges and potential measures’ on 23 and 24 February 2023 in Brussels. Science Europe was present to voice the concerns of its public research funding and performing member organisations.

The climate crisis calls all of us to act urgently. Reducing carbon emissions is a top priority to respect the Paris Agreement and keep the global temperature increase below +1.5˚. Everybody should play their role: Science Europe, in its Strategy Plan for 2021–2026, set the goal to “strengthen the role and contribution of science to tackle societal challenges”.

Today, 24 February 2023, marks the first anniversary of the Russian aggression and occupation of Ukraine. One year on, the invasion caused massive casualties, large-scale damage to essential infrastructures, and a major refugee crisis. 

Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe have been crucial instruments to boost European scientific excellence and collaboration, and to further develop the European Research Area (ERA).

Horizon Europe’s budget must be protected from any reduction or redirection. Its successor’s budget should be increased.

These are among the key messages of Science Europe's response to the Public Consultation on Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.

The International Science Council (ISC) and All European Academies (ALLEA) invite you to attend their Second conference on the Ukraine crisis: One year into the Ukrainian war, exploring the impact on the science sector and supporting initiatives. The conference will take place virtually on 20-22 March 2023. Register here. 

On the occasion of the 2023 International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and International Women's Day, Science Europe highlights the experiences of the women Chairs of its Working Groups.