What are the primary functions of the ESF? In what way does the ESF serve the needs of Research in Europe?
In our Strategic Plan, we break down our activities into three streams, or pillars, as a way of outlining what we do. There is an element of overlap among the activities but we find it’s the clearest way of explaining what’s going on to an outsider. The pillars are: Science Strategy, Science Synergy and Science Management. Strategy encompasses those activities which are forward looking and deal with policy issues of European significance, in order to identify upcoming research directions and priorities. See: Forward Looks, Member Organisation Fora, Exploratory Workshops Activities within the Synergy pillar aim to bring together researchers and Member Organisations in order to plan and implement European-level research. See: EUROCORES, ESF Research Networking Programmes and ESF Research Conferences Finally, Science Management encompasses the provision of services and expertise to subsets of ESF Member Organistaions and other research funders in the form of programme management. Current
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