Activities & Initiatives
ISE is active in the promotion of research and innovation. Follows, in reverse chronological order, a list of the main activities and initiatives that ISE has promoted since its creation.
September 2022: It is time to act! Publication of the Manifesto for Early Career Researchers.
June 2022: Proposals for enhancing actions for “Widening participation and spreading excellence” — work in progress
An interim report of our Taskforce is available here.
June 13, 2022: Gago Conference
With Ciencia Viva and the CNRS, ISE organised the 4th Gago Conference: “Europe supporting young researchers in times of uncertainty”
March 2022: reforming research assessment
ISE report identifying 18 policy options for stakeholders to improve the ways in which research and researchers are evaluated and rewarded, and to enable a transition to Open Science.
March 2022: war in Ukraine
ISE statement about the war in Ukraine and links to initiatives taken by member organisations against the war and in support of Ukraine.
January 2022: COVID-19 and young researchers
ISE has written a statement to urge Member States, in occasion of the gathering of research ministers in Paris, to take immediate action to support young researchers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 2021: Letter about the conference on the Future of Europe
ISE has expressed the concern of research communities for the omission of R&I from the topics of the Conference on the Future of Europe.
July 2021: position paper on Horizon Europe
ISE has finalised a position paper on three aspects of HE: widening participation, the R&I cycle in pillar 2, and interdisciplinarity.
March 2021: workshop on the assessment of Open Science practices
ISE held a 2-day stakeholder workshop to discuss the implementation of mechanisms to incentivise and reward the adoption of Open Science practices.
[FULL REPORT IN PREPARATION]
February 2021: webinar series about academic precarity
ISE ran a series of high level discussions around academic precarity in online webinars.
January 2021: academic precarity
ISE published a statement about the urgent problem of academic precarity and organizes a series of webinars on the topic.
November 2020: COVID and young researchers
September 2020: ISE press conference
ISE hosted a press conference about the impact of COVID-19 and budget cuts on the next generation of European Researchers. [READ MORE]
August 2020: Letter to the European Parliament
ISE wrote to the president of the EU Parliament and to the ITRE group with recommendations about amending the EU Council proposal for the MFF. Particular emphasis was about supporting fundamental research in Pillar I of Horizon Europe. [READ MORE]
July 2020: statement on MFF negotiation box
June 2020: statement on budget discussion
In this statement, ISE acknowledged the effort made by the European Commission to shape the new budget, but criticised the proposal to fall short of being ambitious enough for the challenges ahead.
April 2020: letter to EU leaders
ISE wrote to the presidents of the EU Commission, EU Parliament, and EU Council, and to the Commissioner for Research and Innovation, to highlight the challenges ahead for an equitable distribution of research capacity, and an efficient balance across all fields of research and all Countries. All but the President of the EU Commission replied to ISE confirming their willingness to take into account our recommendations. [READ THE LETTER]
April 2020: statement about the ERC President resignation
February 2020: petition to invest more in Horizon Europe
October 2019: Horizon Europe budget campaign
