EASSH members

Founded in 1919, shortly after the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia, Masaryk University and its academic community have significantly contributed to the development of free and democratic Czechoslovakia.

Its activities are rooted in and guided by the values of respect, freedom and responsibility.
Today, Masaryk University with its highly international and dynamic environment, continues in the esteemed tradition of playing significant roles across all three main domains of higher education institutions – education, excellent research, and societal contribution and service to the community. The university comprises ten faculties and two research institutes, employing over seven thousand employees, and offers over 150 study programmes, with 20 per cent of these taught in English. It educates 33,000 students, including 7,000 from abroad, who all enjoy studying in Brno – one of the most popular student cities in the world.

It continuously improves its standings in international university rankings and, in the 2023 QS Sustainability Rankings, it was placed as the best of all Czech higher education institutions. Principles of sustainable development are integral to the university’s culture.

Masaryk University is dedicated to educating future leaders and stands as a leader and trendsetter in education, research, and culture. As a dynamic, growing and socially responsible higher education institution, it also prides itself on being a responsible and attractive employer, earnestly upholding principles of transparency, equality and non-discrimination. The university supports its employees in achieving their professional goals while also promoting a healthy a work-life balance.

Within Horizon Europe, there are so-called National Contact Points (NCPs) – dedicated research consulting bureaus – which provide support and guidance in preparing proposals and project realisation. The EU funded project “Net4Society” is the international network of National Contact Points for Cluster 2, “Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society”.

The main goal of Net4Society is both to improve the quality of consulting and to support researchers in submitting successful proposals in this funding area as well as to increase the visibility of SSH research. National Contact Points are available to applicants in all EU member states and many other countries. They provide individual guidance and support in the application for European research funding for free.

Net4Society was originally founded in 2008 during the 7th European Research Framework Programme (FP7, 2007-2013) as the network of National Contact Points for Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities (SSH). Since 2008, Net4Society has been increasing the quality of consulting in the field of social sciences and humanities and currently for SC6, through capacity building and networking measures. Currently, over 80 NCPs in 59 countries in Europe and beyond are part of the network.

The Network brings together 25 Institutes for Advanced Study across Europe. It was created in 2004 to stimulate a dialogue on IAS practices and possible forms of cooperation. Within the whole network, more than 500 researchers are hosted every year for up to one full academic year.

NetIAS members share the objective of creating international and multidisciplinary learning communities. This openness and the freedom the fellows enjoy for their researches serve to promote scientific and intellectual exchanges. The fellows are released from their usual teaching and research obligations and pursue their project in a privileged environment, that stimulates reflexion and innovation.  IAS tend to break from the intellectual routines, thus fostering the emergence of new perspectives, approaches and paradigms.

While sharing a common vision concerning the freedom of research, and representing an alternative to the national institutions of higher education and research, the IAS offer a considerable diversity in terms of fellowship conditions: individual or collective fellowships; invitations or open calls for applications; one academic year residencies or shorter periods. Furthermore, their scientific policies are characterized by different thematic or geographical orientations, a diverse openness to natural and hard sciences, or a special commitment to promoting early career researchers.

NORCE is an independent research institute that conducts research for both public and private sectors, to facilitate informed and sustainable choices for the future.

NORCE delivers research and innovation in energy, health care, climate, the environment, society and technology. Solutions address key challenges for society and contribute to value creation on the local, national and global levels. NORCE contributes to the adaptation of industry and business – in conjunction with businesses and universities, clusters and centres.

In addition, NORCE has an important role in research-based renewal of the public sector. We are represented throughout Norway. Our large local presence enables close collaboration with unique centres of excellence, as well as the business community and public authorities. This is all beneficial to research. NORCE is also represented in Brussels with an EU-office. The Head of Office is Sumathi Subramaniam.

NTNU is an international oriented university with headquarters in Trondheim and campuses in Gjøvik and Ålesund.

NTNU has a main profile in science and technology, a variety of programmes of professional study, and great academic breadth that also includes the humanities, social sciences, economics, medicine, health sciences, educational science, architecture, entrepreneurship, art disciplines and artistic activities. 

NTNU has five strategic research areas: Civil security, Ocean & Coast, Community, Energy, and Health & Life science. 

OPERAS is a distributed Research Infrastructure (RI) for open scholarly communication in the European Research Area for Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). Its mission is to coordinate and federate resources in Europe to efficiently address the scholarly communication needs of European researchers in the field of SSH.

OPERAS' aim is to make Open Science a reality for research in the SSH and achieve a scholarly communication system where knowledge produced in the SSH benefits researchers, academics, students and more generally the whole society across Europe and worldwide, without barriers.

The University of Oulu is an international science university that creates new knowledge, well-being and innovations for the future through research and education. The University of Oulu, founded in 1958, is one of the largest and most multidisciplinary universities in Finland.

Our educational mission is to provide higher education based on research, and to educate youth to serve society and humanity. The overall aim is to further improve the quantitative and qualitative results and impact of education. 

The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts is the leading Slovenian research institution. It has a multidisciplinary character; in addition to the humanities, its spheres of research also cover the natural and social sciences.  It consists of 18 research institutes throughout the country and has more than 350 employees, roughly 300 of whom are researchers.

ZRC SAZU conducts basic research across a range of fields, included natural, earth, and spatial sciences (palaeontology, geology, biology, zoology, botany, karst sciences, geomorphology, natural risks, hydrology, climatology, environmental protection, earth observation, and geographical information systems), and the social sciences and humanities (demography, sociomedicine, anthropology, geography, philosophy, aesthetics, ethnomusicology, musicology, ethnology, linguistics, digital humanities, literary studies, archaeology, history, cultural history, art history, and dialectology.

ZRC SAZU has its own publishing house and bookstore. The ZRC Publishing House publishes more than 50 book series ranging from the strictly scientific to works of general interest and nonfiction, and many scientific journals.

Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement. Believing that research and education are critical in shaping society, 24-year-old Sara Miller McCune founded Sage in 1965.

Today, we are controlled by a group of trustees charged with maintaining our independence and mission indefinitely.

Our guaranteed independence means we're:

Free to do more: Supporting an equitable academic future, furthering disciplines that drive social change, and helping social and behavioral science make an impact.

Free to work together: Building lasting relationships, championing diverse perspectives, and co-creating resources to transform teaching and learning.

Free to think long term: Experimenting, taking risks, and investing in new ideas.

The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) was established in 2019 to give a public and collective voice to the arts and humanities in the context of Higher Education.

Scotland has a rich arts and humanities heritage and an impressive history of arts and humanities education. We believe that the arts and humanities are a public good with a central role to play in meeting the challenges of contemporary society.

SAHA is uniquely positioned to give voice to the value and diversity of Arts and Humanities education in Scotland and to foster further collaboration across and beyond institutions in order to provide a coherent perspective on the challenges facing Scottish society.

SAHA works in the context of SHAPE, STEAM and internationally with partners in the Irish, European and North American Humanities alliances. The Alliance aims to enhance public and governmental understanding of the intellectual, creative and social, as well as economic, contribution of the arts and humanities to the well-being and advancement of Scottish society.

The Alliance has the following remit:

• To be a united, public voice on matters relating to the arts and humanities in Scotland.
• To advocate for the arts and humanities, enhancing understanding of their intellectual, creative, and social as well as economic, contribution to the wellbeing and advancement of Scottish society.
• To influence government policy on current higher educational issues relating to the arts and humanities, giving a Scottish perspective, but also speaking to wider debates.
• To create, foster and enhance links and partnerships between scholars and local communities and communities of practice.
• To disseminate its work in the media, in government and within the education sector.

The SSH-council represents the Dutch domain of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and is committed to strengthening its position within the Netherlands and beyond. The Council promotes collaboration across the four SSH-sectors: economics & business, humanities, law, and the social sciences. It actively advocates for the value and impact of SSH research and education.

The Council brings together the chairs of the national deans’ councils in the SSH-sectors, the chairs of the two SSH advisory councils of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and both the chair and director responsible for SSH within the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Together, they represent the entire Dutch SSH-domain.

The SSH-domain plays a critical role in addressing complex societal challenges, offering insights that contribute to both societal well-being and economic prosperity. The SSH-council works to ensure that the domain is resilient, well-connected, and equipped to make a lasting societal impact.

As EU policy and funding landscapes increasingly shape national research priorities, the SSH-council is expanding its efforts internationally.

The Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAHS) is the umbrella organization of 61 learned societies. Whether in literature or theology, in communication sciences or in political sciences, its member societies represent a whole variety of disciplines. In total, no fewer than 30,000 people are members of a learned society associated with the SAHS, making it the largest network in the humanities and social sciences in Switzerland.

Research promotion, international cooperation and the promotion of young academics – these have been the main concerns of the SAHS since its foundation in 1946. As an institution of research funding recognised by the Federal Confederation, the Academy is currently involved in four central thematic areas: 

Networking

The SAHS serves as a platform for the realisation of joint projects and for the dissemination of research results within the scientific community. Its role as a "mediator" between the disciplines is also of great importance.

Promotion of the humanities and social sciences

The SAHS allocates a large part of its budget to the promotion of activities in the humanities and social sciences in our country. As far as possible, it pursues a funding policy that focuses on the promotion of young academics in research.

Outreach

The SAHS regularly organizes public conferences and panel discussions on current topics. It thus emphasizes the contribution of its disciplines to the analysis of important social challenges and promotes dialogue with politics and business.

Infrastructures in the humanities and social sciences

The SAHS is responsible for various long-term projects. These provide an important research infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences and make a substantial contribution to the preservation, communication and development of Switzerland's collective memory.

Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences

The SAHS is a member of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. The Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences network the sciences regionally, nationally and internationally. They are particularly active in the fields of foresight, ethics and advocate dialogue between science and society.

Taylor & Francis is a business that is centred on creating, serving and sustaining diverse expert communities of researchers and other knowledge makers to maximise the contribution and impact of their work.

As one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, eBooks and reference works, our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine, and our brands include Taylor & Francis, Routledge, CRC Press, F1000 and Dovepress.

The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) is the northernmost university of the world. Its location on the edge of the Arctic implies a mission. The Arctic is of increasing global importance. Climate change, the exploitation of Arctic resources and environmental threats are topics of great public concern, and which the University of Tromsø takes a special interest in.

At UiT you can explore global issues from a close-up perspective. UiT's key research focuses on the polar environment, climate research, indigenous people, peace and conflict transformation, telemedicine, medical biology, space physics, fishery science, marine bioprospecting, linguistics, and computational chemistry.

The Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education is one of the biggest faculties at UiT. Humanities and social science research play a key role in welfare and development in Norway. The research done at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education is crucial for understanding the northern regions, and the faculty holds a strong position in indigenous research and research on Sami societal conditions.

The faculty’s researchers are internationally oriented and active in the debate on global challenges such as education, health, energy, climate, and the environment. They have also developed unique research databases in Sami studies, art history, and history that are used by researchers from all over the world.

Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) is one of the leading universities of applied sciences in Finland. It is an innovative and multidisciplinary higher education institution of 11,000 students located in South-west Finland with close access to the unique archipelago environment of the Baltic Sea.

Our strategy is focused on the area of the Baltic Sea and the potential of the human capital. We engage citizens to find solutions for a green economy and a good life at home in the hybrid world.

At Turku University of Applied Sciences, the international perspective is integrated into all the activities, teaching, RDI as well as working life cooperation. This guarantees that our students and staff have the intercultural skills needed in today’s multicultural working life. It also ensures the high international quality of our education and applied research.

Our spearhead focus is on:

• Arts for a good life
• Functional regional Health and Well-being services
• Lively Business area and advanced Engineering solutions.

Find out more about the three faculties on our website.