Browse and read some of our reports, publications, and other relevant material:
Environmental Sustainability
The Heidelberg Agreement on Environmental Sustainability in Research Funding, October 2024
Environmentally sustainabile research: funders on the case, 17 May 2024
EMBO | EMBL Science & Society conference Food, sustainability and plant science, 6-7 November 2009 – Conference report
Open Science
Generative AI and foundation models in the life sciences, 2024
Research Integrity
Build research integrity across borders, Research Europe, July 2020
Governance of research integrity: Options for a coordinated approach in Europe, 2020
Cooperation & Liaison between Universities & Editors (CLUE): recommendations on best practice. Research Integrity Peer Review, June 2021
Time to join up funders’ efforts on research integrity, Research Europe, July 2018
Research Assessment
Recognizing Preprint Peer Review, material from a workshop co-hosted by HHMI, ASAPbio and EMBO, 1-2 December 2022
The experimental research funder’s handbook. RoRI Working Paper No.6, December 2021
The troubles with peer review for allocating research funding, EMBO Reports, November 2019
Centrality of Researchers in Reforming Research Assessment, ISE report, 2022
When more is more: A DORA Community Discussion on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication, DORA blog, 2021
Science and technology
Standardization in Synthetic Biology: A White Book, September 2021
EMBO|EMBL Science & Society conference Emerging Biotechnologies – Hype, Hope and Hard Reality, 5-6 November 2015, Heidelberg – Conference report
ESF-supported Workshop on the Use of non-anonymized human genome sequence in research: Science and policy, 10-11 December 2014, EMBO, Heidelberg – Workshop report
ESF-supported Workshop on the Biological Containment of Synthetic Microorganisms: Science and policy, 13-14 November 2012, EMBL, Heidelberg – Workshop report
Women in Science
Exploring Quotas in Academia, AWIS magazine, Vol. 47, December 2015
Exploring Quotas in Academia – Report from a project to study the effects of gender quotas to increase the participation of women in leadership positions in academic science in Europe, done in collaboration with and funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, September 2015
Other Topics
Advancing science and collaboration in Norway, June 2024
The values of scientific conferences in a virtual framework: analysis and practical options, December 2021