European Policy Documents relevant to Humanities Research
Below is listed a selected number of recent European policy papers
relevant to research in the humanities.
HERA reports and deliverables
- HERA Conference Report: 4th HERA Annual Conference: European diversities - European identities
- HERA Conference Report 2007
- HERA Feasibility Study: The Evaluation and Benchmarking of Humanities Research in Europe
- HERA Thematic Scoping Exercise, Cultural Dynamics: Inheritance and Identity
- HERA Thematic Scoping Exercise, The Human Factor in Technology
- HERA Thematic Scoping Exercise, The Humanities as a Source of Creativity and Innovation
- HERA Thematic Scoping Exercise, Understanding and Misunderstanding
- HERA Tematic Scoping Exercise, Values, Beliefs and Ideologies as Forces
- Strategic Communication Plan, HERA Deliverable 2.2.1 (December 2005)
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HERA Application Procedures Report, HERA Deliverable 3.1.1 (June, 2006)
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HERA Peer Review Report, HERA Deliverable 3.2.1, (Nov. 2006)
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HERA Survey Report on Impact & Quality Assessment Practices, HERA Deliverable 4.1.1, (Nov. 2006)
- Report on Impact and quality assessment (pdf, 588 KB) , HERA Deliverable 4.1.1 , May 2006
- Conference Report 2005 - summary, AHRC (pdf, 77 KB) HERA Deliverable 5.5.1 June 2006
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HERA Conference Report- full, Past into Present: Understanding Policy and Innovation in Europe. Conference of Humanities in the European Research Area, 8. December 2005, HERA Deliverable 5.1.1, (July 2006) (pdf, 772 KB)
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HERA 2006 Conference Report - Present into Future: The Role of the Humanities in Foresight Exercises, HERA Deliverable 5.2.1 (March 2007)
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Mapping report: European Survey of Research Priorities in the Humanities (pdf, 327 KB) HERA Deliverable 6.1.1, November 2005
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HERA Survey on Humanities Infrastructures , HERA Deliverable 7.1.1, (Nov 2006)
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HERA Report from workshop on Infrastructures, HERA Deliverable 7.1.2, (Nov. 2006)
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HERA Programme Management Report, HERA Deliverable 8.1.1 (Nov. 2006)
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HERA Report on Legal and Administrative Barriers , HERA Deliverable 9.1.1, (January 2007)
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Research Programmes an udated overview of Humanites Research Programmes (pdf, 743 KB) (January 2006)
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Invitation to join HERA's Joint Research Programmes, HERA Deliverable 9.3.1 and 9.4.1 (March 2007)
European Commission
- Future of Creative Industries - Implications for Research Policy (pdf, 517 KB) Foresight Working Document, April 2005
- ERA-NET - Networking the European Research Area (pdf, 640 KB) -leaflet on the ERA-NET scheme, 2005
- Networking the European Research Area - coordination of national programmes - ERA-NET & Article 169 (pdf, 2732 KB) - leaflet describing new ERA-NET projects, 2005
- Communication from the Commission - Science and technology, the key to Europe's future - Guidelines for future European Union policy to support research (word, 237 KB), June 2004
- Implementation of the European Research Area in the Social and Human Sciences, especially as regards the coordination and opening-up of national programmes: Discussion paper (word, 283 KB) - by Dr. John H. Smith for the European Commission Research Directorate General, Vienna, June 2002
A group of Norwegian Faculties of Humanities
- Research profile of the faculties of the humanities in Norway (pdf, 2.536 KB) - An overview of current research within the humanities and theology at Norwegian Universities, April 2006
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
European Science Foundation
- Europe's Framework for Research - ESF Response to the European's Commission's Proposal for a Framework Programme (2002-2006) (pdf, 517 KB)
EURAB
- EURAB Report and Recommendations on "The Social Sciences and the Humanities in the 7th Framework Programme" (pdf, 3287 KB) - by EURAB, December 2005
- Science & Society: An agenda for a responsive and responsible European Science in FP7 (pdf, 117 KB) - by EURAB September 2005
- Recommendations on the European Research Area (ERA) and Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) (word, 74 KB) - by the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB), January 2004
ESFRI
- European Roadmap on Research Infrastructures (PDF, 1,8 MB), Oktober 2006
- Blueprint for the European Resource Observatory for the Humanities (EROHS) (word, 835 KB) - Proposal by the Working Group on Research Infrastructure in the Humanities and Social Sciences, June 2004
ERCH
- European Research Funding Systems in the Humanities (pdf, 216 KB), Mapping of the European research funding agencies in the humanities, June 2004
- European Research Funding Systems in the Humanities, Best Practice (pdf, 129 KB), Mapping of the European research funding agencies in the humanities, part 2 on best practice, June 2004

