18. June 2015
Sailing through Changing Oceans: Ocean and Polar Life and Environmental Sciences on a Warming Planet
In the current context of Global Change, sustainable and responsible exploitation of the Oceans can be realised only through a deep understanding of the Ocean processes and of the associated ecosystems spanning every latitude of Planet Earth. This is the key concept advocated by a new position... [more]
13. April 2015
Extreme Geohazards: Reducing the Disaster Risk and Increasing Resilience
Extreme hazards – rare, high-impact events – pose a serious and underestimated threat to humanity. The extremes of the broad ensemble of natural and anthropogenic hazards can lead to global disasters and catastrophes. Because they are rare and modern society lacks experience with them, they tend to... [more]
29. January 2015
Forward Look Report on Quantum Biology Presented in Brussels
The scientific community represented by about forty researchers and officials from research funding organisations gathered in Brussels on 23 January 2015 to present the outcomes of the European Science Foundation’s (ESF) Foresight Activity on Research in Quantum Biology (FarQBio). [more]
20. November 2014
Neuroscience and Society Network (NSN) Symposium
Organised by King’s Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Centre (KISS-DTC), with support from the ESF, the symposium 'Towards Neuro-Social Science: the politics and pragmatics of collaboration' will be held on 11 December 2014 at KCL, London (UK). [more]
19. November 2014
ESF Science Policy Briefing wins award for promoting public understanding of the social dimensions of science
The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) has awarded the ESF Policy Briefing ‘Science in Society: Caring for our futures in turbulent times' its prestigious Ziman award for “the most innovative cooperation in a venture to promote the public understanding of the... [more]
5. May 2014
The EUROCORES programme EuroSYNBIO releases new video.
A video showing current developments in the field of synthetic biology has just been released by researchers from the ESF EUROCORES Programme EuroSYNBIO. The film is available at the EuroSYNBIO website. In this programme, and more specifically in the Collaborative Research Project SYNMOD, the... [more]
2. December 2013
Research Networking Programme CONGENOMICS - Spring School announcement
A spring school entitled "Landscape genetics in transition to landscape genomics: challenges and opportunities to explore NGS data in a spatially explicit context" is organised the 23-29 March 2014, Bertino, Italy. [more]
25. September 2013
SCIENCE IN SOCIETY: Caring for our Futures in Turbulent Times
New Science Policy Briefing from the European Science Foundation assesses the future issues of science in society in Europe. [more]
4. September 2013
Research Networking Programme QUANTISSUE support the conference entitled "Systems Dynamics in Endocytosis"
The conference will take place in Villars, Switzerland on 29/09 till 04/10/13. [more]
14. May 2013
Research Networking Programme CONGENOMICS - Call for organising a summer school
Summer School [more]
