Initiated by the ALLEA-FEAM-KNAW Scientific Committee on Health Inequalities and for the third in a row, this expert workshop will aim at assessing available empirical and analytical methods to evaluate the impact of policies and interventions on socioeconomic inequalities in health.
The Work Programme 2021 for the European Research Council (ERC), major actor for research grants in Europe, was presented yesterday by the European Commission. For this first work programme under Horizon Europe, three main calls for proposals for frontier research actions have been announced.
The European Commission has opened the public Call for Membership of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, the independent advisory body established by the President of the Commission. Interested individuals are invited to submit their application by 22 March 2021.
Against all odds, Austrian-born Lise Meitner devoted her life to a career in nuclear physics. Today we look back on the achievements of a brilliant woman who many believe was once robbed of the Nobel Prize.
Today, the UN celebrates women and girls in science. We asked one of the editors of ALLEA’s book “Women in European Academies”, historian Prof. Ute Frevert, to take a closer look on the past and present of women in European academies and science.
On 3 February 2021, the board of the Science Academy of Turkey (Bilim Akademisi) issued a statement about the events that followed the appointment of a new president to Boğaziçi University in Turkey. An addendum on developments at Boğaziçi University has been added on 8 February 2021.
ALLEA is proud to announce the Open Call for Proposals for the Future of Science Communication conference, to be held on 24-25 June 2021 in Berlin. The event is organised in cooperation with Wissenschaft im Dialog, the organisation for science communication in Germany.
ALLEA, the Global Young Academy (GYA), and STM (International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers) published today the summary of a series of cross-sectoral workshops on the future of peer review in an open, digital world.
