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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. Click on image to read our Strategic Plan 2006-2010.

COST is one of the longest-running instruments supporting co-operation among scientists and researchers across Europe.

News

Defying the Integration Models – the Second Generation in Europe
The child of Turkish parents may feel an outsider in the Netherlands or Switzerland, yet still be...
Podcast: Professor Jörn Thiede on the European Research Icebreaker Aurora Borealis
Professor Jörn Thiede from the University of Kopenhagen, who is also the former director of the...
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II honours ESF’s President Ian Halliday with CBE
Professor Ian Halliday, President of the European Science Foundation, has been appointed a CBE...

Latest Calls

HERA JRP Call for proposals now open
The “Humanities in the European Research Area” (HERA) Joint...
ECRP V – Call for proposals in the social sciences – NOW OPEN
The ECRP V (2009) call for proposals for collaborative research projects in the social sciences has...
EUROCORES: Two additional Calls for Outline Proposals – NOW OPEN
The ESF has published two more Calls for Outline Proposals in addition to the four...


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