The Descartes Prizes honour the name of one of Europe's greatest scientific thinkers, René Descartes. The competition aims to identify and showcase the best European research, as well as the best ways to communicate science to the public. It also raises awareness of the benefits of...

Research in relation to education challenges in Europe is an integral part of the European Union s programme of research in the social sciences and the humanities. In the Fourth and the Fifth EU Framework Programmes, the Directorate-General for Research (DGResearch) of the European Commission...

Researchers have the opportunity to be part of the Seventh Framework Program, a research programme that promotes excellence and innovation, and which respects freedom of research whilst ensuring the respect of fundamental ethical principles. Ethics must be given the highest priority in EU funded...

This expert group report on the State of Art in Europe on Responsible Research and Innovation has been authored by an interdisciplinary group with experts from science, innovation, economics, law, governance and ethics. It was prepared as an intermediate step in the reflection on future policy...

This textbook is the output of the project "European Textbook on Ethics in Research", funded by the European Commission and delivered by members of the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele University. It is designed for use in the training of science students, researchers and research ethics...

This publication gathers the abstracts of European research projects on climate change and related to climate change which have been completed recently or are ongoing under the sixth and seventh framework programmes for research. This document aims at providing a relevant overview of research...

Building on the work of a first Expert Group, the report of which was published in March 2008, a second Expert Group reviewed and re-examined the role of research infrastructures within the European Research Area. The report provides further developments and recommendations outlining a more...