New Opportunities for Research Funding Co-operation in Europe A Strategy for Social Sciences

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.

Fields of science

• natural sciences
• social sciences

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
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Funding Scheme

CA - Coordination action

Coordinator

ACADEMY OF FINLAND

Address

Vilhonvuorenkatu 6
Helsinki
Finland

Participants (11)

DANISH AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

Denmark

Address

Bredgade 40
Copenhagen K

DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT

Germany

Address

Kennedyallee 40
Bonn

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

United Kingdom

Address

Polaris House, North Star Avenue,
Swindon

ESTONIAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Estonia

Address

Endla 4
Tallinn

FUNDACÃO PARA E CIÊNCIA E A TECNOLOGIA

Portugal

Address

Avenida Dom Carlos I, 126 - 2
Lisboa

IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Ireland

Address

Brooklawn House, Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge
Dublin

NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Netherlands

Address

Laan Van Nieuw Oost Indië 300
The Hague

SLOVENIAN RESEARCH AGENCY

Slovenia

Address

Tivolska Cesta 30
Ljubljana

SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL

Sweden

Address

Stockholm

THE ICELANDIC CENTRE FOR RESEARCH (RANNSOKNAMIDSTOD ISLANDS)

Iceland

Address

Laugavegi 13
Reykjavik

THE RESEARCH COUNCIL OF NORWAY

Norway

Address

St. Hanshaugen
Oslo