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Membership and representation

 

Science Europe is an association of European Research Funding Organisations and Research Performing Organisations, based in Brussels. Its Founding General Assembly took place in Berlin in October 2011.

The main goal of Science Europe is to represent the interests of Member Organisations, European governmental organisations and European Commission in creating a unified area for scientific research.

Other goals of Science Europe include the following:

  • Support the work of its Member Organisations and promote co-operation between them both at policy and activity level;
  • Establish the scientific community as a third voice in the ERA, together with national government and the European Commission;
  • Act, with the interests and expert views of researchers as a guide, to maximize the input of the Member Organisations in the development of the ERA in conjunction with the European Commission;
  • Work with other European organisations to ensure that a broad based forum is established to inform discussions on ERA and related policy matters;
  • Provide a platform for dialogue with national ministers of research;
  • Co-operate with non-European research organisations; and
  • Deliver a coherent plan of action to ensure that publicly funded research and innovation in Europe has the maximum impact, contributing to the development of the economy and providing solutions to deliver societal benefit.

Science Europe is informed and supported in its activities by six Scientific Committees, composed of highly-authoritative academics coming from all over Europe and representing the broadest range of scientific communities and disciplines.

These Committees, each composed of 15 members including the Chair, act as the voice of researchers to Science Europe and are essential for the provision of scientific evidence to support science policy and strategy developments at pan-European and global level.

The Scientific Committees cover the following disciplines:

  • Humanities;
  • Social Sciences;
  • Life, Environmental and Geo Sciences;
  • Medical Sciences;
  • Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences (including Materials Sciences);
  • Engineering (including Geo- and Bio-Engineering and Technological Sciences).

For more information please visit the official website.

EURAXESS is a network of more than 200 European Services Centers, established in 37 different countries as a part of a European Commission initiative to help mobile researchers. The Researchers' Service Centers offer free, personalized assistance and information to mobile researchers who are planning to pursue research in one of Lithuanian research institutions. The centers assist researchers in all matters relating to their professional lives – research opportunities, grants and fellowships – as well as daily, including practical information on legal issues, insurance, housing, schooling, day-care or language courses.

Since the second half of year 2011 national EURAXESS centers are being coordinated by Research Council of Lithuania.

The HERA Joint Research Programme (HERA JRP) partners have launched a joint call for transnational Collaborative Research Projects (CRPs) under the theme: “Cultural Encounters”. By launching the HERA JRP call for proposals, the humanities funding organisations in 18 countries want to create opportunities for collaborative, trans-national humanities-led research that will result in new academic insights relevant to major social, cultural and political challenges facing Europe. Proposed research may draw upon insights and methodologies from a wide spectrum of arts and humanities disciplines. Although humanities-driven, proposals may involve contributions from other research domains where appropriate

The “Cultural Encounters” call has been started at 01-01-2012 and will end at 31-12-2016.

Programme is intended for international consortiums consisting of no less than 3 members from different EU countries, participating in the programme.

Participants from Lithuania shall be funded by Research Council of Lithuania.

The following countries have committed to the HERA JRP on Cultural Encounters: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and United Kingdom.

HERA homepage

CORDIS webpage

Joint programming initiative aims to address major societal challenges which are too great for national research programmes to tackle them effectively on their own – a vast bulk of research programmes in Europe are run in an isolated way, leading to unwanted fragmentation or ineffectiveness. Such challenges include, for example, addressing climate change, ensuring energy and food supply or a healthy ageing of citizens.

The following Joint Programming Initiatives have been identified to date:

Following a decision of Research Council, Lithuania has joined the Joint Programming Initiatives in year 2010 and to this day participates in JPI Cultural Heritage and Global Change.  

More information about Joint Programming Initiatives is available at its website.

Last updated: 01-02-2024