Title | Starting year | Affiliation |
| Responses to Environmental and Societal Challenges for our Unstable Earth (RESCUE) | 2009 | LEE (formerly LESC)* |
| European Food Systems in a Changing World | 2006 | LEE (formerly LESC)* |
| Higher Education in Europe Beyond 2010: Resolving Conflicting Social and Economic Expectations | 2006 | SOC (formerly SCSS)* HUM (formerly SCH) |
| Immigration and the Construction of Identities in Contemporary Europe | 2002 | HUM (formerly SCH)* |
| Security - Advancing a Framework for Enquiry (SAFE) | 2007 | HUM (formerly SCH)* SOC (formerly SCSS) |
| Urban Science | 2002 | SOC (formerly SCSS)* MED (formerly EMRC) LEE (formerly LESC) PEN (formerly PESC) HUM (formerly SCH) |
*leading Committee
MED (formerly EMRC): Standing Committee of the European Medical Research Councils; ESSC: European Space Sciences Committee; LEE (formerly LESC): Standing Committee for the Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences; NuPECC: Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee; PEN (formerly PESC): Standing Committee for Physical and Engineering Sciences; HUM (formerly SCH): Standing Committee for the Humanities; SOC (formerly SCSS): Standing Committee for the Social Sciences.
