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Policy

1 Board Members
144 Members
2014 EST.

The Policy Working Group is currently structured around three main groups.  These are:

 

- The Research Careers Group, which supports researchers' careers and liaises with the Initiative for Science in Europe;

 

- The Science Diplomacy Task Force, which focuses on science diplomacy and provides support to the activities of the EU Science Diplomacy Alliance;

 

- The Research Assessment Group, which focuses on European funding and science policies.

 

Previous interests of the working group have included questions such as researchers' mental health, refugees in higher education, career development of MSCA fellows and climate change.

 

Members with an interest in science policy and a modicum of time to dedicate to our activities (~2 hrs/month) are always welcome to apply to join us.

 

General literature

 

10 Tips for Researchers: How to achieve impact on policy (EC);

 

Advocating for R&D investment (Wellcome Trust).

 

Read some of our publications on Zenodo

 

MCAA on Zenodo.

Events

Events

PAST
14 November 2025 18:00
Organised by Working group/Chapter

by Benelux Chapter

Science Diplomacy Workshop
Join us for a Science Diplomacy workshop on Nov 14, 6–8 p.m. CET, online or at the University Medical Center in Amsterdam! The workshop explores how Science Diplomacy and Science Policy intersect and shape researchers’ everyday work and career development.

The two-hour workshop includes:
🎤 Presentations & lightning talks
🗣️ Roundtable discussions
💼 Learning from experiences shared by experts, Radenka Krsmanović Whiffen and Annelies Van de Ven.

To help us tailor the content of this career-development session, we kindly invite all participants to register by completing this short pre-workshop questionnaire: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegENLql_buWam4Z78pEF6BljKoWHZTPSDW1ZoCj5IZuRm2jw/viewform.

If you plan to join us onsite, the location is:
AMC | Meibergdreef 9 (Room G7-296)
1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

A Zoom link and a Visitor Guide will be provided closer to the date. Feel free to drop us a line here in the chat or at benelux.chapter@mariecuriealumni.eu

See event