WERA - first council meeting and commemorative events
Vienna, Austria: Representatives of 25 national, regional, and international specialty education research associations from around the world gathered in Vienna on September 29, 2009 to commemorate…
ISE: Statement on Grand Challenges, European Research Area Framework
Short Statement on Grand Challenges
In November ise (Initiative for Science in Europe) – of which EERA is a member, has forwarded a short statement on the state of social science and humanities in…
7.12.11: Horizon 2020 - new framework proposal released
On December 6 The European Commission released the proposal for the new Framework Programme for Research and Innovation - Horizon 2020.
This is the result of the work being done by the Commission…
A group of stakeholders in social science and Humanities (SSH) launched an on-line petition on an Open letter to the Commissioner. An overwhelmingly high number of colleagues: more than 22.000,…
Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research
The Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research, which specialises in scholarly research on education systems in the Mediterranean region, has launched its new website.
The website also…
EERA and EARLI urge the EC to reflect SSH in future funding programmes
EERA has together with EARLI forwarded a letter to the Commissioner for Science and Innovation because her General Directorate is presently working on the next framework programme 'Horizon…
The European Commission is working on a Framework Programme for funding of research projects from 2012-2017. The Commissioner launched a hearing on the Green Paper, to which EERA and all 27 member…
A valuable lesson learned
“If the European Commission wants to support research in order to stimulate sustainable growth and development, this cannot be done by solely focussing on one kind of…
EERA and many other stakeholders were very concerned with the Green Paper, send out by the Commissioner for Research Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn in February, because it did not…