Activities

ALLEA positions are elaborated through expert Standing Committees, issue-focused Working Groups and ad hoc Task Forces. ALLEA can rely on the leading scientists of its Member Academies. ALLEA advice takes the form of analytical reports and studies, memoranda and statements, articles and essays, typically published under the ALLEA imprint and reaching a wide range of decision-makers and stakeholders in science policy. Themes include:

- European Research Area / Higher Education Area 
- Evaluation and benchmarking 
- Intellectual Property Rights                      
- Open Access                                           
- Science and the Media              
- Science and Ethics 
- Science Education 
- Science Landscape                                      
- Science Policies   
- Scientific Integrity           
- Scientific Lingua Franca
- Social Sciences & Humanities
- Young Academy

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Standing Committees

  Science and Ethics 
The ALLEA Standing Committee on Science & Ethics (SCSE) is concerned with a wide range of problems, 'internal' (within the scientific community) and 'external' (relations between science and society). Because ethical considerations have been an essential component in the European construction more... 

  Intellectual Property Rightss
This ALLEA Standing Committee was set up in 2001 in response to the concerns felt widely within the European Scientific Community that the increased emphasis on Intellectual Property Rights was having a significant effect on research, both in the content of the programmes which are supported by the funding agencies, and in the way in which more...
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Working Groups

  Evaluating for Science
While the European Research and Higher Education Area is emerging, evaluation practices and policies are still very much linked to national traditions and institutional frameworks. ALLEA has been promoting in the past discussions about the necessity to engage at a European level also in terms of quality assurance and evaluation more...

  Science Education for the 21st Century
Many European Academies are interested and engaged in fostering science education at the pre-university level. ALLEA has been invited to serve as coordinator of a European Network of Academies for a science education programme that would be part of a global, IAP sponsored effort. The programme has as its main objective more...


Young Academy

European Young Academy
In a rapidly changing research landscape, with forms of doing research and new fields and challenges emerging and with the European Research and Higher Education Area taking shape, the project “European Young Academy” (EYA) aims at giving a voice for the next generation of scientific leaders in Europe. Traditionally, more...

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