Overview
Lobbying Costs
850,000€
Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
11.5 Fte (20)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
6
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Science Foundation (ESF)
EU Transparency Register
831120023433-89 First registered on 16 Sep 2016
Goals / Remit
The European Science Foundation (ESF) provides a wide range of science-support services to researchers, funding agencies and decision makers.
ESF provides practical, skilled and interdisciplinary support across all sectors of the science community, advising and implementing initiatives for our partners and clients in the following key areas:
• Research Grant Evaluation – Identifying the best research and optimising the use of our partners’ internal resources.
• Institutional Evaluation – Maximising the impact of research policies and programmes to facilitate the achievement of excellence.
• Career tracking surveys of Doctorate Holders – Generating high quality, reliable information on supply and demand for doctorate holders and their overall availability and mobility.
• European Projects Coordination – Alleviating the administrative burden on research infrastructures and contributing to research success.
• Scientific Platforms Administration – providing effecti (...)Main EU files targeted
ESF is involved as coordinator or project office in several EU-funded projects in the areas of space or graphene research, water purification in space, advanced space propulsion, and inventory of research infrastructures.
Address
Head Office
Quai Lezay-Marnésia 1
Strasbourg 67080
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People
Total lobbyists declared
20
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 4 75% 4 50% 6 25% 6 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
11.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
According to the competencies required to fulfill its duties, ESF is organising a turnover of its staff to match its requirements. Moreover, as the activities develop, more people are only working part time on an annual basis on EC contracts, this explains the high level of people working only 25% their time on the register perimeter.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions
Subcategory
Think tanks and research institutions
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
ESF has 4 Full Members and 7 Associate Members
Full Members
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National Science Fund of Bulgaria (Bulgaria)
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)
EuroScience (France)
National Research Fund of Luxembourg
Associate Members
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Fund for Scientific Research - FNRS (Belgium)
French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea -IFREMER (France)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences - MTA (Hungary)
National Council for Scientific Research - CNCS (Romania)
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey - TÜBITAK (Turkey)
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Serbia)
Core Technologies for Life Sciences - CTLS (France) -
Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
850,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
1,074,699 € (Source: Various H2020 Programs)
Other financial info
The costs do not include overheads. ESF is working 14 different H2020 EC projects in 2020, including important ones such as PRO-RES & GRAPHENE CORE 3, which implies a high level of staff costs. However, due to the COVID 19 crises, other costs drastically dropped due to the EC travel ban; indeed, ESF is usually responsible for the organization of a large number of worskshops & meetings which were held remotely in 2020.
ESF is developping partnership with funding organisation - mostly universities, public organisations or research funding organisations - to manage their Grant Evaluation, providing a conflict of interest free approach. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
N/A presently
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
6 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 18 Jun 2021 Location Brussels Subject Update of ESF strategy DG Research and Innovation Attending - Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General)
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Date 24 Jun 2020 Location Brussels Subject Meeting of cOAlition-S Leaders' Group DG Research and Innovation Attending - Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General)
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Date 10 Dec 2019 Location Brussels Subject Innovation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 10 Dec 2019 Location Brussels Subject Innovation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Innovation and Youth Attending - Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 07 May 2019 Location Brussels Subject ESF activities DG Research and Innovation Attending - Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General)
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Date 22 Feb 2019 Location Brussels Subject Agri Matters Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Phil Hogan (Commissioner)