With over 1000 signatories already, the petition is backed by the research community, from individual academics to the presidents and chief executives of learned societies and academies.
In the wake of the European Commission’s release of its outline for the Ninth Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon Europe), EASSH and other 13 European associations representing universities united to respond to the proposal.
The European Alliance for SSH (EASSH) along with 13 scientific institutions throughout Europe is to run a EUR 2.8 million Project aiming at building an ethics and integrity framework for all non-medical research.