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Academia Europaea position paper on the situation of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe

Academia Europaea (AE), an international, non-governmental, not-for-profit association of individual scientists and scholars, has recently published a position paper on the situation of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe.

AE argues that there is mounting evidence of serious erosion in the critical and core subjects which underpin European Humanities and Social Sciences. If unrecognised, it maintains, the trend risks degrading research expertise and could, over time, undermine future scholarship capacity in these areas.

The position paper makes a number of recommendations for action that could be applicable to the upcoming negotiations on the next EU Framework Research programme and relevant to the European Commission 2020 strategy.

See the press release here or read the full paper here.