Science Advice for Policy by European Academies
‘SAPEA’ stands for Science Advice for Policy by European Academies. It is a consortium of academy networks, with ALLEA as one of its six partners, collectively representing around 120 academies from across Europe. Other SAPEA networks include Academia Europea, EASAC, Euro-CASE, FEAM, YASAS.
SAPEA is part of the Scientific Advice Mechanism to the European Commission (SAM). Together with the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, we provide independent scientific evidence and policy recommendations to the College of European Commissioners. Thanks to our network of academies and learned societies, we can convene outstanding experts from natural sciences, engineering and technology, medical, health, agricultural and social sciences, and the humanities, to review and synthesise evidence.
As a founding member of SAPEA, since 2016 ALLEA actively contributes to all activities of SAPEA and the SAM, including:
- Acting as the lead network to respond to policy requests for advice – we coordinated review reports on Sustainable Food Systems, Sustainable Food Consumption, Strategic Crisis Management, and more recently the Rapid Evidence Review Report on the use of Artificial Intelligence in Emergency and Crisis Management;
- Supporting all partner Networks in the development of evidence review reports;
- Leading on all communications activities for the SAM – not only on topics, but also stimulating debates and discussions on science advice for policy, though hundreds of public events or a popular podcast on issues in science advice
- Contributing to the monitoring of impact;
- Contributing to all other crosscutting activities led by our partner Networks, with the aim of strengthening the mechanism, including:
- Engaging with Academies and Learned Societies through workshops and other activities, on issues related to science advice – see for example our latest event on Upholding Integrity in Scientific Advice
- Evaluating and implementing our quality assurance procedures;
- Developing and implementing an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) strategy;
- Developing guidelines on the use of AI in the SAM;
- Contributing to the strategic development of SAPEA.
Within the Scientific Advice Mechanism, SAPEA is funded by the European Union.
ALLEA Contact
Sara Saba
Scientific Policy Officer
saba@allea.org
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Within the Scientific Advice Mechanism, SAPEA is funded by the European Union. The activities of associated partners Academia Europaea and Cardiff University are funded by UKRI (grant number 10033786).
