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Julia Boman
Science Officer

European Science Foundation 
1, quai Lezay-Marnésia - BP 90015
67080 Strasbourg cedex – France
Phone: +33 (0)3 88 76 21 71
Email: jboman@esf.org 

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Disciplines
Social Sciences
Natural Sciences

ESF is committed to promoting the highest quality science in Europe to drive progress in research and innovation. 

We work closely with our members, customers and partners, sharing our expertise and offering solution-orientated services aimed at increasing the quality and effectiveness of science and science-related activities in Europe.

ESF has had an enormous and lasting impact on the science community within Europe and beyond. 
With 42 years’ experience in all areas of research, ESF was originally set up as a coordinating body for Europe’s main research funding and research performing organisations. In that time, the Foundation has supported over 2,000 programmes and networks, gathering more than 300,000 scientists from 186 countries through funding from 80 Member Organisations in 30 countries. 

As the research landscape has evolved, so too has ESF’s role in supporting scientific endeavours. ESF’s traditional research support activities (EUROCORES, European Collaborative Research Projects, Exploratory Workshops, Research Networking Programmes) have been concluded to make room for a new expert services division called Science Connect.

Science Connect delivers practical, skilled and interdisciplinary support and consultancy services across all sectors of the science community.

ESF continues in its role as host to high-level expert boards and committees, and supports them in achieving their objectives. ESF also continues to serve its member organisations through the following activities: 

  • Access to key decision-makers through its broad network
  • Strategic advice and road mapping
  • Support for access to EU funding
  • Privileged access to scientific services
  • Specialised seminars and reports
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Rafael de Miguel González
President
rafaelmg@unizar.es
eurogeomail@yahoo.co.uk
Tel.: 34 876554845

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Disciplines
Geography

EUROGEO is a respected authoritative body for research, training and education in geography, GIS and related subject areas, including transport, agriculture, demographics, environment and earth science. EUROGEO has a strong track record in digital skills and jobs, online training and resources and specifically in supporting the use of open data and developing open scientific enquiry and open learning opportunities. 

The association has participatory status in the Council of Europe as the professional voice of geographers in Europe and participates in the Parliamentary Assembly, Committee of Regions and other pillars of the Council. EUROGEO has consultative status in the United Nations, where it provides expert advice on issues associated with data and development in  the United Nations, for example in the UN Urban Agenda as part of the HABITAT programme and in UNESCO at the Education committee.

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Ilija Tomanic Trivundza, ECREA president
John Downey, Vice-PresidentJ.W.Downey@lboro.ac.uk
info@ecrea.eu  

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Social Sciences
Humanities

ECREA is a learned society of communication scholars devoted to development of communication research and higher education in Europe.

ECREA is organised into 24 thematic Sections, each developing a distinctive field of communication studies, 4 Temporary Working Groups which focus on emerging or underrepresented fields within media and communication studies, and 3 permanent Networks representing specific socio-demographic categories of scholars. 

Driven by volunteer work of over one hundred Section, Temporary Working Group and Network Chairs and Vice-Chairs, and eleven-member Executive Board, ECREA is an association with strong bottom-up organisational culture, where various projects and ideas are emerging and materialising through creative energy and enthusiasm of our members.

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Anna Serpente
Secretariat
European Language Council
celelc@unicatt.it

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Languages

With 20 years of policy-making history, our association brings together committed language specialists from around the European continent and beyond to support Europe's language infrastructure, improving societal and individual multilingualism and promoting quality language learning.

Filling a unique niche in Europe's language panorama, the CEL/ELC has unique contact to universities, language institutions, the Council of Europe, and the European Commission, mediating at the various levels to envisage, anticipate and adapt to the future language landscape.

Membership in the CEL/ELC grants institutions and language specialists access to a wide variety of projects and like-minded colleagues in similar language fields, and is open to all institutions of higher education and all national and international associations with a special interest in languages. Additionally, we accept applications for associate membership for individuals.

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Stefan Swift
Media and Communications Officer
European Social Survey ERIC
City University of London
Stefan.Swift@city.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7040 4907
+44 (0)7976 682 285

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Disciplines
Social Sciences

The European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC) is an academic cross-national survey measuring attitudes and behaviour. Every two years, up to 50,000 face-to-face interviews are conducted across Europe on a wide range of subjects. Since its implementation in 2002, over 425,000 interviews have been undertaken over nine rounds in 38 countries. All European Social Survey data is published anonymously, and made available for free for non-commercial use. As at 3 July 2020, over 160,000 people have registered to download or access the data online. This has led to the publication of 4,417 academic articles that analyse the data (2004-18). The development of the ESS was led by Professor Sir Roger Jowell and Professor Max Kaase at the European Science Foundation (ESF) in 1995.

The ESS became the first social science project to win the annual Descartes Prize for Excellence in Scientific Collaborative Research, awarded by the European Union, in 2005. Included on European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) Roadmap in 2006, 2008 and 2010, the project was recognised as an ESFRI Landmark in 2016. In 2013, the ESS was awarded European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) status by the European Commission. The project was awarded the Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba (LPV) Dataset Award 2020 by the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA).

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Claire Prater
Executive Administrator
info@eswra.org

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Social Sciences

The European Social Work Research Association (ESWRA) was founded in 2014 to create a hub for social work research development, collaboration and exchange across Europe. Arising from overwhelming levels of engagement in the European Social Work Research Conference, the Association now has over 600 members from across more than 33 countries.

ESWRA’s vision is to take forward the development, practice and utilization of social work research to enhance knowledge about individual and social problems, and to promote just and equitable societies.

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Els van Drimmelen
e.a.p.vandrimmelen@uva.nl

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Disciplines
Geography
Social Anthropology
Social Sciences

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences enjoys a prominent standing within the social sciences sector in Europe and is the largest educational and research institution in the social and behavioural sciences in Europe.

Our research and education address societal and human behaviour related themes from the following disciplines:

  • Child Development and Education
  • Communication
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences (Anthropology, Human Geography, Planning & International Development Studies, Political Science, Sociology)

The Faculty offers a large number of programmes and courses to ca. 8,000 students from the Netherlands and abroad, at both graduate and undergraduate levels.

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Prof. Paul Schubert
Secrétaire général de la FIEC
7, rue des Beaux-Arts
2000 NEUCHATEL (Switzerland)
Paul.Schubert@unige.ch

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Disciplines
Humanities

The International Federation of Associations of Classical Studies (FIEC) is an umbrella organization that covers most associations of classical studies of national importance around the world. Its aim is to foster cooperation among classical scholars by disseminating information among affiliated associations, enabling direct contact between Delegates, informing governmental authorities on the importance of classical studies. It also contributes to the support of classical studies on all continents, and more generally takes any apropriate action that will help to sustain classical studies at an international level.

Every five years, FIEC holds an International Congress which gathers scholars from all parts of the world and from all sub-fields of classical studies ; this is coupled with a General Assembly of Delegates ; another General Assembly of Delegates is held once between congresses.

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Monika Vettovaglia
Communication Officer
FORS
University of Lausanne
Géopolis, CH-1015 Lausanne
monika.vettovaglia@fors.unil.ch
+41 (0)21 692 37 47

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Humanities
Social Sciences

FORS is the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences. We implement large-scale national and international surveys, offer data and research information services to researchers and academic institutions, and conduct methodological and thematic research. FORS is financed by the Federal Government (State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI), by contributions from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and by the University of Lausanne.

Our strategic priorities are the following:

  • Data and consulting services for social science researchers and research institutions in Switzerland

This includes data collections as part of the national and international social science infrastructure and services on a mandate basis supporting the entire data life cycle of social science projects in Switzerland.

  • Providing tools for the national and international information infrastructure

We acquire, document, preserve and disseminate high quality quantitative and qualitative data and research information in conformity with national and international standards.

  • Doing research related to methodological and thematic research

Thanks to its own research activities, FORS is an integral part of the social science research community in Switzerland. To fulfil its key mission, FORS participates in academic research in two main fields: thematic and methodological research.

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Dr Stefan Meysman, Coordinator Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies
Ghent University
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35 (UFo, 2nd floor, room 004)
9000 Gent
@MedievalUGent
+32 9 331 02 28

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Humanities
Social Sciences

In Belgium, Ghent University has been a pioneer in its strategy for quality enhancement and impact of SSH research since 2012. Supportive measures included a structural investment in interdisciplinary research consortia in the fields of culture & heritage, psychology, global studies, criminology and economics.

In 2018-2019, the university reinforced its efforts, leveraging these consortia towards even more ambitious interdisciplinary collaborations and societal impact. Next, UGent funded a university-wide roll-out of the initiative. There now exist ten competitively selected Interdisciplinary Consortia for Societal Impact (IDC), covering a wide variety of disciplines in SSH and STEMM, and breaking down traditional barriers inside academia as well as with stakeholders.

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Risto Kunelius
Professor of Media and Communication Studies
Helsinki Inequality Initiative (INEQ)
University of Helsinki

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Disciplines
Social Sciences
Humanities

The Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities promotes a new interdisciplinary research culture nationally and internationally. We are building a new, interdisciplinary research culture that creates the conditions for new research openings and promotes the renewal of content and methodology in the SSH research areas. Our goal is to be among the five best scientific institutes in Europe in our field by 2030.

The Institute is a joint unit of the Faculty of Arts, Educational Sciences, Law, Theology and Social Sciences, as well as the Swedish School of Social Sciences (SSKH), the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS) and the Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences (HYMY).

The Insititutes' tasks:

  • Strengthen the research collaboration in the social sciences and humanities to generate new multidisciplinary research projects
  • Coordinate the efficient use of research infrastructures
  • Promote the scientific and social impact of social sciences and humanities research nationally and internationally
  • Long-term development of research methods and the utilization of digital data
  • Improve researchers' access to external research funding – specifically from international sources.

 

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Chair of HERA Network Board
Prof. Wojciech Sowa
hera@research.ie

Senior executive officer
Christa Engel
hera-up@dlr.de

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Humanities
Arts

HERA – Humanities in the European Research Area – is a network of 26 Humanities Research Funders from 25 countries across Europe. The network’s mission is to promote and support European arts and humanities research through research funding, collaboration and advocacy.

HERA is committed to the view that historical, cultural, artistic and philosophical knowledge is indispensable for understanding humanity’s past, for dealing with the key societal challenges of the present, and for imagining possible futures. HERA supports the methods of reflective critique, transnational collaboration and interdisciplinarity and is dedicated to building relationships among humanities researchers across Europe and enabling the widespread sharing of knowledge and expertise.

HERA is also committed to bringing arts and humanities research into productive dialogue with policymakers, industry and the wider public. With the objective of firmly establishing the humanities in the European Research Area and in the European Commission Framework Programmes, HERA, with co-funding from the European Commission, has developed and implemented four rounds of transnational humanities calls for proposals to date.

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Frédéric Clavert
Assistant Professor
Secretary of Humanistica
frederic.clavert@uni.lu

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Disciplines
Humanities

Humanistica est l’association francophone des humanités numériques/digitales. Elle cherche à réunir autour d’actions communes toutes les personnes intéressées par le mouvement des digital humanities telles qu’elles peuvent s’exercer et se penser en langue française.

Humanistica is the French-speaking digital humanities association. It seeks to unite all those interested in the digital humanities movement around common actions that can be practiced and thought of in the French language.

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Kristian Petrov

Associate Professor of History of Ideas, senior lecturer in Cultural Studies

Karlstads universitet

SE-651 88 Karlstad

Phone: +46 76-111 43 68

E-mail: kristian.petrov@kau.se

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Humanities

Humtank is a think tank for research and education in the humanities created by a unique collaboration between faculties of humanities at originally twelve and, from the autumn of 2017, fifteen Swedish universities. The purpose is to strengthen and enhance the role of the humanities both within and outside academic institutions. We also want to explain to the public the relevance and sustainability of the humanities in society as a whole.

We operate on a broad front and participate in public debate with the aim of establishing a humanities-oriented research policy and a fairer distribution of educational resources, as well as changing the public's perception of and attitudes towards the humanities.

 

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Chair: Professor Marie-Louise Coolahan
Co-Ordinator: Professor Sonja Tiernan
S.tiernan@ria.ie
Royal Irish Academy
19 Dawson Street
Dublin 2

Tel: 00 353 (0) 1 609 0600

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Humanities

The Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA) was formed in September 2013. It is a joint initiative of Humanities researchers within eleven higher education and research institutions, including all of the universities, North and South, Dublin Institute of Technology and the Royal Irish Academy.

The Alliance is working to generate public awareness of the importance of humanities teaching and research in higher education and society at large. It is concerned also to inform and shape public policy in both jurisdictions and in the EU.

The Alliance has established working groups to address the main areas of strategy which impinge on the roles of the humanities in education and research today. Through these it will aim to engage productively with policymakers and funders in the wider interests of the university systems in Ireland and Northern Ireland.