ESF committees and programmes in which the Research Council for Culture and Society takes part


Standing Committees

Standing Committee for the Social Sciences (SCSS); the Research Council’s representative is Professor Matti Sintonen, University of Helsinki

The Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH); the Research Council’s representative is its Chair, Professor Pauli Niemelä, University of Kuopio

EUROCORES Programmes

  • Logical Modelling in Interaction, Communication, Cognition and Computation (LogICCC)
  • Histories from the North – environments, movements, narratives (BOREAS)
  • Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context (CNCC)
  • Better Analysis Based on Endangered Languages (EuroBABEL)
  • European Comparisons in Regional Cohesion, Dynamics and Expressions (EuroCORECODE) (under development)
  • Higher Education and Social Change (EuroHESC)
  • Cross-national and Multi-level Analysis of Human Values, Institutions and Behaviour (HumVIB)

Research Networking Programmes in 2010

  • Responding to Complex Diversity in Europe and Canada (RECODE), 2010-2014
  • Beyond Territoriality: Globalisation and Transnational Human Rights Obligations (GLOTHRO), 2010-2014
  • The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective (PSE), 2008-2012
  • Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean (ARCANE), 2006-2011  
  • African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE), 2009-2013
  • European Social Cognition Network 2 (ESCON 2), 2008-2012
  • Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences 2 (QMSS 2), 2008-2012
  • European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN), 2007-2011
  • Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences in Europe (EUROQUAL), 2006-2010  
  • Globalizing Europe Economic History Network (), 2006-2010
Last changed 10/08/2010

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Science Adviser
Kustaa Multamäki (SCSS),
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Science Adviser
Tiina Forsman (SCH)
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