Structure
The ESF networking, foresighting and managing activities are carried through 5 scientific standing committees and 6 expert boards and committees:
- European Medical Research Councils (EMRC)
- Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH)
- Standing Committee for the Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences(LESC)
- Standing Committee for Physical and Engineering Sciences (PESC)
- Standing Committee for the Social Sciences (SCSS)
- Marine Board - ESF
- European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC)
- European Polar Board (EPB)
- Committee on Radio Astronomy Frenquencies (CRAF)
- Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC)
- Material Science and Engineering Expert Committee (MatSEEC)
The ESF science units provide executive, managerial and secretarial functions for the standing committees and expert boards and committees:
- Humanities unit
- Medical sciences unit
- Life, Earth and environmental sciences unit
- Physical and engineering sciences unit
- Social sciences unit
- Space sciences unit
- Polar sciences unit
- Marine sciences unit (located in Ostend)
The activities of ESF science units are coordinated by ESF director of science and strategy development. Under his remit fall also science policy and science strategy issues. Since February 2009 the ESF director of science and strategy development is Marc Heppener.
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