Browse and read some of our reports, publications, and other relevant material:
Research Assessment
- Revisiting Research Assessment in the Life Sciences: Insights from an EMBO Community Workshop, 2026
- Revisiting the EMBO Funding Criteria: a workshop report, 2026
- Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review of Scholarly Articles, Books, and Funding Proposals, 2025
- The experimental research funder’s handbook, 2023
- Recognizing Preprint Peer Review, 2022
- Centrality of Researchers in Reforming Research Assessment, 2022
- When more is more: A DORA Community Discussion on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication, 2021
- Informational report “Dealing with the limits of peer review with innovative approaches to allocating research funding”, 2021
- The troubles with peer review for allocating research funding, 2019
Environmental Sustainability
- Funders and researchers: partner up for sustainability, 2024
- The Heidelberg Agreement on Environmental Sustainability in Research Funding, 2024
- Environmentally sustainable research: funders on the case, 2024
- The values of scientific conferences in a virtual framework: analysis and practical options, 2021
Research Integrity
- Strengthening research integrity in Europe: Exploring the role of a pan-European body and engaging the research community, 2023
- EMBO research integrity workshops – Opportunities to discuss responsible research practice and policy, 2023
- Fostering research integrity in scientific institutions and in publishing, 2022
- Build research integrity across borders, 2020
- Governance of research integrity: Options for a coordinated approach in Europe, 2020
- Cooperation & Liaison between Universities & Editors (CLUE): recommendations on best practice, 2021
- Time to join up funders’ efforts on research integrity,2018
Science Advice
- EMBO|Helmholtz white paper: Bridging the Translation Gap: Bioengineering in Europe, 2026
- How to Turbocharge Bioengineering in Europe, Ntziachristos, Schwarz-Romond, Watt, 2026
- Controlled Anarchy, Fiona M Watt, 2025
- Standardization in Synthetic Biology: A White Book, 2021
- Emerging Biotechnologies – Hype, Hope and Hard Reality, EMBO, 2015
- Use of non-anonymized human genome sequence in research: Science and policy, EMBO, 2014
- Biological Containment of Synthetic Microorganisms: Science and policy, EMBO, 2012
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- Exploring Quotas in Academia, 2015
- Exploring Quotas in Academia Workshop Report, 2015