Objective NORFACE is a partnership between twelve national funding agencies, all of which are networked into their own national research communities. Together, they provide the capacity for significant levels of co-operation and exchange. The partners are committed to an ambitious programme of communication, enquiry, sharing of experience and action. This programme will provide a significant test of the capacity of national science systems to work together across borders and to achieve European synergy and convergence. The twelve agencies are research councils for the social sciences, where the challenges of convergence may be even larger than for the natural sciences. The principal aim is to engage with a substantial process of European convergence in both research policy and research practice. A key characteristicof this work will be its integration within the mainstream of the partner organisations and their associated research communities. The chosen instruments are a set of eight areas of activity, including a co-operative decision making system, new forms of communication between researchers and managers in the twelve countries, new levels of transnational co-operative research, shared analyses of best practice in the different research systems, studies of barriers and joint examination of common policy problems. A further objective is improved cross national research; another is new and durable support arrangements for the funding of research in areas of strategic importance. There is also an explicit objective to build a platform of co-operation which can be extended to other European countries and other fields of science. NORFACE is strategically committed not only to enhancing the development of social sciences within the European Research Area (ERA) but also to underpinning the role and contribution of social sciences in the sustainable and cohesive evolution of a knowledge society in Europe. Keywords co-operation Programme(s) FP6-COORDINATION - Support for the coordination of activities: specific programme strengthening the foundations of the European Research Area under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006 (FP6) Topic(s) COOR-1.1 - Networking of national or regional programmes or parts of programmes; actors: public authorities, research agencies, open call for proposals (ERA-NETs) Call for proposal ERA-NET/1/CA-SSA See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CA - Coordination action Coordinator ACADEMY OF FINLAND EU contribution No data Address Vilhonvuorenkatu 6 HELSINKI Finland See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (11) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all DANISH AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION Denmark EU contribution No data Address Bredgade 40 COPENHAGEN K See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT Germany EU contribution No data Address Kennedyallee 40 BONN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Polaris House, North Star Avenue, SWINDON See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ESTONIAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION Estonia EU contribution No data Address Endla 4 TALLINN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data FUNDACÃO PARA E CIÊNCIA E A TECNOLOGIA Portugal EU contribution No data Address Avenida Dom Carlos I, 126 - 2 LISBOA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Ireland EU contribution No data Address Brooklawn House, Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge DUBLIN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Laan van Nieuw Oost Indië 300 THE HAGUE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SLOVENIAN RESEARCH AGENCY Slovenia EU contribution No data Address Tivolska cesta 30 LJUBLJANA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL Sweden EU contribution No data Address STOCKHOLM See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE ICELANDIC CENTRE FOR RESEARCH (RANNSOKNAMIDSTOD ISLANDS) Iceland EU contribution No data Address Laugavegi 13 REYKJAVIK See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE RESEARCH COUNCIL OF NORWAY Norway EU contribution No data Address St. Hanshaugen OSLO See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data