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)

• HERA Application Procedures Report, HERA Deliverable 3.1.1 (June, 2006)

• HERA Peer Review Report, HERA Deliverable 3.2.1, (Nov. 2006)

• 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

• 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)

• HERA 2006 Conference Report - Present into Future: The Role of the Humanities in Foresight Exercises, HERA Deliverable 5.2.1 (March 2007)  

• Mapping report: European Survey of Research Priorities in the Humanities (pdf, 327 KB)  HERA Deliverable 6.1.1, November 2005

• HERA Survey on Humanities Infrastructures , HERA Deliverable 7.1.1, (Nov 2006)

• HERA Report from workshop on Infrastructures, HERA Deliverable 7.1.2, (Nov. 2006)

• HERA Programme Management Report, HERA Deliverable 8.1.1 (Nov. 2006)

• HERA Report on Legal and Administrative Barriers , HERA Deliverable 9.1.1, (January 2007)

• Research Programmes an udated overview of Humanites Research Programmes    (pdf, 743 KB) (January 2006)

• 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

• Judging research on its merits - an advisory report by the Council for the Humanities and the Social Sciences Council, May 2005

 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