What are the reasons for lower success rates of proposals from new EU member states (EU-13) in the area of Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in FP7? And what can be done to improve these success rates in Horizon 2020? Net4Society has analysed reasons for the low participation and success rates of EU-13 and produced a report with recommendations on how national policy makers and NCPs can support the better inclusion of researchers from these countries.
Analysis of participation of new EU Member States (“EU-13”) in FP7 Document. More...

The Human Factor in the 2014–2015 
Work Programme of the Horizon 2020 
Societal Challenges

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ScienceEurope_HumanitiesPaper_SEPT2014.pdf. More...

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IMPACT-EV Position Paper for the Consultation of the H2020 ad interim evaluation The Advisory Group for Future and Emerging Technologies encourage SSH integration Final conference of INTERCO SSH. Here some of their findings. More...

Letter to Christian Ehler and European Parliament members
on the evolution of SSH in Horizon2020, October 2015

Letter  to  European  Commission  ITRE, September 2015
On the role of SSH in Horizon 2020

Letter to Commissioner Moedas, February 2015
Fighting terrorism and radicalization

Letter to Mr Juncker, December 2014
Concerns  about  the funding  of  the  Investment  Plan  for  Europe  on  Innovation  and research7

Letter  to  European  Commission  ITRE, September 2014
On the Horizon 2020 Work Programmme

Letter to former Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn, June 2014
On SSH prominence in Horizon 2020. More...

The ‘European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities’ (EASSH) brings together scientific networks, associations, disciplines and universities. The main purpose of EASSH is to promote research on social sciences and humanities as a resource for Europe and the world.
EASSH is a channel to and from the social sciences and humanities for the research system of civil society, policy makers, advisors, public-private partnerships, administrators and practitioners.
EASSH advises on architectures, frameworks and processes of multi-national and European research programmes.
EASSH highlights the potential of the social sciences and humanities to contribute to the benefit, innovation and resilience of societies.
The annual ‘EASSH Convention of Social Sciences and Humanities’ brings the SSH community into debate with representatives of European institutions, private and public partners and other disciplines.
EASSH working groups bring SSH expertise to bear on the public debate, to strengthen European research and may interact with public and private partners. More...

In July 2015, EASSH started with the full registration of its members. Detailed information on each member will be provided so that the EASSH website will become an European platform for key actors in the fields of the Social Sciences and the Humanities. More...

Article 1:
The Association is formed of the founding members and of any future members who will join the association according to the provisions of these statutes.  These statutes are governed by the law of 1st July 1901, as amended and by its application.

Article 2: Name
The association's name is "European Alliance for the Social Sciences and the Humanities."
It may be known by the acronym "EASSH."

Article 3: Purpose
The “European Alliance for the Social Sciences and Humanities” promotes the importance and value of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) at all pertinent levels and through all relevant actions in Europe and beyond.
The aims are:

• to promote European social sciences and humanities as a resource for Europe and the world;
• to provide a contact point for national, European and international SSH organisations, and pertinent policy- and decision-makers;
• to provide a forum for the discussion of matters of common interest;
• to further the interests of its members with respect to the institutions of the European Union and other European and international bodies in all fields relevant to SSH;
• to promote ethically justified and responsible SSH research at all levels;
• to ensure that proper attention is paid to SSH at all levels of education.

Eassh Statutes |  Statuts d'Eassh. More...