European Molecular Biology Organization

EU Legislative Interests

Open Science Scientific Publishing Responsible Research and Innovation, including AI Horizon Europe/FP10 European Research Council GDPR Legislation for the Protection of Animals Used for Scientific Research Science Advising Parliamentary technology assessment (STOA) Parliamentary Research and analytical support (EPRS) Biotechnology

Communication Activities

The focal point for policy research and implementation at EMBO is organized in the Policy unit within the Director's Office. The group examines concerns emerging from advances in scientific research, with an emphasis on the life sciences in Europe. We are focused on policies related to the research system, with the aim to foster a research environment where researchers can carry out their best research. Our major areas of interest are responsible and sustainable conduct of research; and scientific publishing with respect to open science, open access, the usability of data underlying publications, and the reproducibility of the scientific literature; as well as research assessment. We are also involved in a number of projects for assessing and creating tools for researchers and administrators to engage more fully in Open Science and in policy engagement. Our aim is to provide informed analyses to policymakers and other policy leaders, research administrators, and scientists for use in their decision-making processes. We conduct our work through policy research, workshops, and publications. We engage EMBO Members, individuals and offices at the European level, and staff of other EMBO Programmes. We are also involved in a wide range of European and international projects. We have general interactions with EU institutions at public meetings. We supply copies of or links to reports to relevant personnel in the EU institutions. In some instances personnel may attend our expert workshops. https://www.embo.org/policy/ As well, EMBO publishes four journals that contain science, society, and policy sections in the front ends. Topics of interest to and about European bodies are discussed there. Further, the journals themselves work on the principle that scientific publishing should be more transparent, fair, and ethical and must support a reliable, reproducible literature. https://www.embopress.org/ https://www.embo.org/features/the-cost-of-scientific-publishing/ Finally, EMBO provides funding for post-doctoral researchers and young investigators, allowing them to achieve their best work and, importantly, to be mobile and to share and to gather knowledge. The concepts of sharing and mobility are extended through our funding of widely accessible courses and workshops both in Europe and globally. http://www.embo.org/funding-awards

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

EMBO is a member of the Initiative for Science in Europe. https://initiative-se.eu/ EMBO partners with FEAM (https://www.feam.eu/), a member of SAPEA (https://www.feam.eu/policy-priorities-2/sapea/) to contribute to the Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) of the European Commission. EMBO is a member of and on the steering committee of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. https://sfdora.org/ EMBO is a signatory of CoARA: https://coara.eu/ Individual journals of the EMBO Press are members of the Committee on Publication Ethics. https://publicationethics.org/

Organisation Members

We are an elected membership organization of highly accomplished scientists; our only members are individuals. The members are located primarily in Europe, with representatives all over the world. The comprehensive list may be found at: https://www.embo.org/members and the larger community at https://people.embo.org/