SAPEA Call for nominations "Making Sense of Science"

The European Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) provides independent and transparent scientific advice to the European Commission, working with a Group of Chief Scientific Advisors and the European Academies (SAPEA).    

SAPEA (Science Advice for Policy by European Academies) comprises the five European Academy Networks: Academia Europaea, ALLEA, EASAC, Euro-CASE and FEAM.  SAPEA represents over 100 Academies in more than 40 European countries, and spans all the major disciplines (including engineering, humanities, medicine, science and social sciences).  
The Group of Chief Scientific Advisers intends to produce a Scientific Opinion on the topic of Making sense of science under conditions of complexity and uncertainty.  The overarching question is:

''How can good scientific advice be provided to European Commission policymakers, based on available evidence, under conditions of scientific complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity?''

SAPEA will undertake the evidence review that informs the Scientific Opinion.  To address the topic, SAPEA will set up an international and interdisciplinary working group of around 10-12 expert members.  The experts will provide their input via physical meetings and are required to produce a first draft of an Evidence Review Report by December 2018.    
The organisational lead for the topic will be Academia Europaea (AE), working closely with the other European Academy Networks in SAPEA.

Nominations of experts and/or scientific writer should be accompanied by a short CV (please no more than 2 pages), together with a short explanation on how the nominee’s experience meets the areas of expertise needed.

For further information, please contact Craig Skerritt, Policy and International Programmes Manager, at c.skerritt@ria.ie

NB: Nominations will need to be made by 4 July 2018 at the latest.