02/4/2020

2019 in a nutshell

EUROPEAN SCIENCE POLICY

“EU-LIFE is well positioned in EC policy” (Fabienne Gautier, EC, informal meeting, Oct 2016)

2019 HIGHLIGHTS:

EU-LIFE active in 2 EC stakeholders’ platforms: Open Science Policy, European Research Area (ERA)
5 EU-LIFE Statements, open letters and papers: Horizon Europe, Plan S, Health research, ERA, Future of scholarly research publications
2 campaigns: Deal4Science and support to Horizon Europe
1 EU-LIFE policy event in Brussels: workshop „Towards recognition of the role of small and medium sized research infrastructures (SMRI) in Europe“
2 EC Consultations: Horizon Europe, research infrastructures
2 Contributions to EC reports: citizen science, indicators for open science
35 meetings & events including with EC’s Commissioner M Gabriel, Commissioner Moedas’ cabinet (A Vicente, K Sequeira), EC’s Director General of Research & innovation (JE Paquet), Members of the EU Parliament and Member States’ REPERs.
5 new nominations for high-level policy committees within EU-LIFE community (individual appointments): EIC Pilot Advisory Board, ERC Scientific Council, Cancer Mission Board, Missions’ Assemblies

INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE AND EXPERTISE

“It is invaluable that I can discuss with peers’ common issues and tap into their collectively expertise to solve our problems. I have tried this in the past with other organizations at the national and EU level, but only with EU-LIFE it has been successful.” (Respondent EU-LIFE survey, Oct 2017)

2019 HIGHLIGHTS:

Creation of the EU-LIFE Gender Equality Working Group following up LIBRA project
Design and launching first call for the EU-LIFE Visiting Postdoc Seminars Programme
Workshop “Building capacity to train researchers in Storytelling”
Session on “Data Management at research institutes: challenges and solutions”
Writing of 3 joint proposals: Innovative advanced training, core facilities management, MD-PhD programme
EU-LIFE scientific workshop “Signalling & Gene Regulation in Health & Disease”