European Research Area

Increasingly, national science, research and higher education policies in Europe are being formulated in view of the ambition of building a European Research and Higher Education Area. ALLEA welcomes the strengthening of an autonomous ERA and of more subtle and more substantial science support tools under the Framework Programmes. It is one of ALLEA’s tasks to defend the role of basic science (in all fields of scientific inquiry), and to argue for the diversity of national research traditions as potential assets to be carefully evaluated. The promotion of better scientific cooperation and exchange also beyond the countries of the European Union is a prime concern for ALLEA.

ALLEA publications and documents
1. Emerging Regional Cooperation: Southeast European Academies of Sciences and Humanities in the ERA, (J. Engelbrecht et al.), 2008.  
2. Challenges of the Future: Reflections of ALLEA on ERA, 2007.
3. Investing in Knowledge in Europe: Reflections of ALLEA on the proposals for the Seventh Framework Programme 2007-2013 of the European Commission, 2006.
4. Competition vs. equal development, (P. Drenth), 2004.
5. National Strategies of Research in Smaller European Countries, (J. Engelbrecht et al.), 2002.
6. Science, Society and Culture: Response to the proposal for the Framework Programme 2002-2006 of the European Community, 2001.