What future for the SSH in the European

Research Area ?EARMA Conference, Vienna, 2013

Are the SSH in danger?

• Low participation in EU funded research, little incentive to apply, despite vibrant research fields

• The SHS may not be in danger, the EU is, ignoring potential in favour of short term technological chimera

• The danger of excluding smallness - countries, institutions, disciplines

Defining the SSH

• A wide variety of disciplines with different backgrounds and different needs

• Europe's forgotten resource in human knowledge

• A vast resource - researchers, students, cultural industries, an educated population

Calls and responses

• Mobility calls

• Networks

• ERA Calls

• Framework calls

Getting past the barriers

•Institutional gatekeepers

– From EU to National to Local, genuine recognition of potential and the means to act

•Administrative gatekeepers

– Knowledge assistance

– Strategic assistance

– Logistic assistance

•Disciplinary gatekeepers

– Being allowed to propose and be listened to

• The Panelists

– Ms. Stephanie Rammel, Austrian Research Promotion Agency and Net4Society

– Dr. Thomas Koenig, ERC

- Dr. Ioana Galleron, European Unversity of Britanny and EvalHum

What is EvalHum?

• An international initiative to promote the research in the Social Sciences AND the Humanities

• Gathers researchers in the SSH, involved in European research projects

• A website: http://www.evalhum.eu (events, information about research evaluation, blogs…)

• A « Quality Chart for the Research in the SSH » (work in progress)

• The discussion issues

– What impedes a real inclusion of the SSH in the European research funding ?

– What can stakeholders do to improve the situation of the SSH within ERA?