Science Policy
The EIROforum partner organisations constitute an essential pillar of the European Research Area. Within their respective scientific disciplines, the partner organisations play a decisive role, both with respect to enabling world-class science to be undertaken, but also as a central and structuring element for organising the research activities at a European level.
Historically, the EIROforum partner organisations have emerged as solutions to needs and desires by active scientists across Europe, thus in a way acting as "scientific grass-roots movements", albeit cast in an intergovernmental framework which has given the organisations long-term stability to develop their ambitious scientific and technological programmes that have made them world-leaders within their respective areas of scientific inquiry.
While firmly based in Europe, the partner organisations have numerous links and relations to institutions and countries outside of Europe. The EIROforum organisations thus represent an “Open Europe” in science.
The unique character of the EIROforum organisations and of the partnership itself makes EIROforum an important actor as the European Research Area continues to develop and EIROforum has contributed to this process by means of policy papers and topical statements as well as participation at conferences and meetings, etc. over the years.
Publications and Statements:
- Response of EIROforum to the EC Green
Paper "From Challenges to Opportunities:
Towards a Common Strategic Framework
for EU Research and Innovation funding"
(May 2011) - Towards the Next Framework Programme
for Research, Technology and Innovation
– EIROforum Position Paper on FP8
(January 2011) - Establishing New Research Infrastructures in Europe - The EIROforum Experience
Position Paper (March 2010) - Letter from Iain Mattaj, EMBL Director General, published in Nature, Vol 465, 24 June 2010
- Establishing New Research Infrastructures in Europe - The EIROforum Experience
Position Paper (March 2010) - EIROforum's Response to the Green Paper
"The European Research Area:
New Perspectives"
September 2007 - Statement of Support for the European Charter for Researchers
and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers
adopted by the European Commission
15 November 2006 - Towards a Europe of Knowledge and Innovation (PDF, 9 MB)
World-class research as the centrepiece of knowledge-based economy
2005 - Response of the EIROforum to the draft report of the European Research Council Expert Group
November 2003 - Safeguarding Scientific Culture: A Contribution from EIROforum
to the European Convent Forum
13 June 2002
