In a statement sent to ScienceInsider, ESF said it was in "constructive and on-going" negotiations with Spanish officials, and that it expects the suspension to end by mid-April.
We used feeder-free and serum-free ESF-C media (Cell Science and Technology Institute Inc., Sendai, Japan) without LIF.
The plan put forward by the funding agencies is to merge EuroHORCs with ESF which they largely fund to create a new group (with the suitably catch-all working title of Science Europe) to formulate science policy and lobby on behalf of the agencies.
"How can ESF or its successor become the voice of science if scientists are no longer sustained by ESF? Scientists are the voice of science, and they will only accept ESF to speak on their behalf if they are strongly involved and feel supported by ESF," write the 16 signatories from eight European nations.
The European Science Foundation (ESF) provides cooperation and collaboration in European research and development, European science policy and science strategy.
A recent European Science Foundation (ESF) report indicates that the classical social contract for science is no longer operational and proposes several recommendations, two of which we would like to underline as they are of immediate relevance to the issues addressed here[39].
Recently, Smith et al. (2016) introduced two metrics, "ESF occurrence index" and "ESF maximum height," to describe ESF intensity.
The heads of Europe's national research councils, who gather regularly under the soubriquet EUROHORCS, look set to join forces with the European Science Foundation (ESF), which funds research, backs research networks and conferences, and develops science policy, mostly with money from EUROHORCS members.
So EuroHORCs decided to go ahead and create Science Europe anyway and the new body will work together with ESF to coordinate its "responsible wind-down" in the next few years, said Paul Boyle, who was elected Science Europe president at the assembly this morning.
But national academies of science that do not fund research, which are currently also members of ESF, expressed doubts about the transformation because they would be excluded from the new body.
