Humanities, social sciences get own part of Horizon 2020

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Work is in progress to give the humanities and social sciences a separate section in Horizon 2020, to be called ‘Europe in a Changing World’ and focusing on ‘secure societies’. The programme will have its own budget and be part of the sixth challenge in Horizon 2020. Many organisations in Europe, notably the League of Research Universities (LERU) and the European Alliance for the Social Sciences and Humanities, have lobbied hard for a separate programme for the humanities and social sciences. The organisation Net4society even collected 25,855 signatures to an open letter stating that “Europe needs a large social sciences and humanities-centred research programme to tackle its ‘Grand Social Challenges’!”
Research Europe reports that as early as in May 2012, the Council of Ministers had decided to call for such an initiative. Read more...