The Heidelberg Agreement involves multi-stakeholder coordination. Representatives of European funding agencies, research institutes, grassroots movements, social scientists and experts from nine European countries collaborated in its development. The agreement was signed by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Dutch Research Council (NWO), EMBO, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the Polish Science Foundation (FNP), the French National Research Agency (ANR), and the German Research Foundation. Approved. (DFG), Green Algorithms Initiative, Green Labs Netherlands (GLN), Institute of Biotechnology of Catalonia (IBEC), Medical Research Council (MRC), National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), and Wellcome.
The collaboration that led to this agreement began during the workshop “The Role of Funders in Promoting Environmentally Sustainable Laboratory Research” hosted by EMBO in Heidelberg, Germany, in May 2024.
This agreement marks the beginning of a broader European commitment to environmental sustainability in research funding. Organizers point out that this serves as an invitation to the international research community to work together on this important issue.
Source:EMBO
