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Reports and publications

EMBO analyses questions in the areas of biotechnology, Open Science, research integrity, research assessment and women in science, and makes the results openly available as reports, publications and consultation responses

Browse and read some of our reports, publications, and other relevant material:

Environmental Sustainability

The Heidelberg Agreement on Environmental Sustainability in Research Funding, October 2024

Environmentally sustainabile research: funders on the case, 17 May 2024

EMBO | EMBL Science & Society conference Food, sustainability and plant science, 6-7 November 2009 – Conference report

Open Science

Generative AI and foundation models in the life sciences,  2024

Research Integrity

 
 
 

Build research integrity across borders, Research Europe, July 2020

Governance of research integrity: Options for a coordinated approach in Europe, 2020

Cooperation & Liaison between Universities & Editors (CLUE): recommendations on best practice. Research Integrity Peer Review, June 2021

Time to join up funders’ efforts on research integrity, Research Europe, July 2018

Research Assessment

Recognizing Preprint Peer Review, material from a workshop co-hosted by HHMI, ASAPbio and EMBO, 1-2 December 2022

The experimental research funder’s handbook. RoRI Working Paper No.6, December 2021

Informational report “Dealing with the limits of peer review with innovative approaches to allocating research funding”, 2021

The troubles with peer review for allocating research funding, EMBO Reports, November 2019

Centrality of Researchers in Reforming Research Assessment, ISE report, 2022

When more is more: A DORA Community Discussion on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication, DORA blog, 2021

Science and technology

Standardization in Synthetic Biology: A White Book, September 2021

EMBO|EMBL Science & Society conference Emerging Biotechnologies – Hype, Hope and Hard Reality, 5-6 November 2015, Heidelberg – Conference report

ESF-supported Workshop on the Use of non-anonymized human genome sequence in research: Science and policy, 10-11 December 2014, EMBO, Heidelberg – Workshop report

ESF-supported Workshop on the Biological Containment of Synthetic Microorganisms: Science and policy, 13-14 November 2012, EMBL, Heidelberg – Workshop report

Women in Science

Exploring Quotas in Academia, AWIS magazine, Vol. 47, December 2015

Exploring Quotas in Academia – Report from a project to study the effects of gender quotas to increase the participation of women in leadership positions in academic science in Europe, done in collaboration with and funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, September 2015

Other Topics

Advancing science and collaboration in Norway, June 2024

The values of scientific conferences in a virtual framework: analysis and practical options, December 2021