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Scientific Advice Mechanism

About the advisors

Mandate

  • independent scientific advice to the European Commission to inform policy making
  • recommendations to improve the interaction between policy-making and scientific advice

Commission decision on the setting up of the High Level Group of Scientific Advisors

Guidelines – how SAM produces scientific advice

Rules of Procedure – Group of Chief Scientific Advisors – September 2020

Members

There are 7 Chief Scientific Advisors appointed in their personal capacity and who act independently and in the public interest.

The advisors’ declared interests can be consulted on the Register of Commission expert groups.
An independent identification committee assists the Commission in selecting the advisors.

How the Scientific Advice Mechanism works

The advisors work closely with the Scientific Advice for Policy by European Academies (SAPEA) consortium, which gathers expertise in engineering, humanities, medicine, natural and social sciences from over 100 academies and societies across Europe.

Together with a secretariat in the Commission’s research and innovation department, the advisors and SAPEA are collectively known as the Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM).

Subscribe to the newsletter of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors.

Activity report

Plenary meetings

The group meets in plenary several times a year.

Meeting reports, minutes and related documents

Contact

EC-SAMatec [dot] europa [dot] eu (EC-SAM[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)

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