Skip to main content

NORFACE Plus

NORFACE

New Opportunities for Cooperation in Financing Research in Europe

NORFACE ERA-NET Logo
 

NORFACE is a partnership between twelve research funding organizations to increase cooperation in research and research policy in Europe. The twelve partners involved are the social science research organizations of Estonia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Canada and Austria participate in NORFACE as associate partners.

NORFACE is an ambitious program of communication, inquiry, experience sharing, and action. Over the five years of the project, the partners will initiate a range of initiatives designed to produce new levels of cooperation in research policy and practice.

The work plan follows a logical progression, starting with the installation of good management of the NORFACE network, through information exchange, analysis, research cooperation, strategic thinking, and finally cooperation on two pilot programs, and the launch of a large-scale transnational research program.

The Joint Transnational Calls for research projects is one of the main objectives of the ERA-NETs, as a mechanism for validating the cooperative effort between the various funding agencies.