EASAC - European Academies' Science Advisory Council

EASAC (www.easac.eu) – the European Academies' Science Advisory Council – is formed by the national science academies of the EU Member States to enable them to collaborate with each other in providing advice to European policy-makers. It thus provides a means for the collective voice of European science to be heard.

Through EASAC, the academies work together to provide independent, expert, evidence-based advice about the scientific aspects of public policy to those who make or infl uence policy within the European institutions. Drawing on the memberships and networks of the academies, EASAC accesses the best of European science in carrying out its work. Its views are vigorously independent of commercial or political bias, and it is open and transparent in its processes. EASAC aims to deliver advice that is comprehensible, relevant and timely.

The EASAC Council has 29 individual members and is supported by a professional secretariat based at the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, in Halle (Saale). EASAC also has an office in Brussels, at the Royal Belgian Academies of Science and the Arts.