FWF President Christof Gattringer elected to the Governing Board of Science Europe

November 24, 2025

Science Europe Governing Board — The members of the Governing Board, including FWF President Christof Gattringer, shape the strategic direction of Science Europe with the aim of further strengthening collaboration across Europe. © Science Europe

Strengthening Europe as a research area and intensifying scientific cooperation – these are the goals of Science Europe, the organization representing all research funding and research organizations in Europe. At the recent General Assembly in Oslo, FWF President Christof Gattringer was re-elected to the Governing Board for the coming term of office until 2027. Norwegian Mari Sundli Tveit remains President of Science Europe.

The newly elected Governing Board of Science Europe

Mari Sundli Tveit, President of the Research Council of Norway (RCN) – President
Marcel Levi, President of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) – Vice-president
Javier Moreno Fuentes, Vice-president of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) – Vice-president
Katja Becker, President of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Katarina Bjelke, Director General of the Swedish Research Council (VR)
Anna Di Ciaccio, Director of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy
Tjaša Dobnik, Director of the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS)
Christof Gattringer, President of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Krzysztof Jóźwiak, Director of the Polish National Science Centre (NCN)
Torsten Schwede, President of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Christopher Smith, Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

More cooperation in Europe

The umbrella organization of European research funding and sponsoring organizations, Science Europe, was founded in 2011. Currently 47 member organizations from 27 countries belong to Science Europe and are actively contributing to the creation of the European Research Area (ERA).

One key aspect of Science Europe’s work is its cooperation in several working groups, where experts from the member organizations work together to discuss and develop successful models focusing on different science policy topics. These topics include, for example, promoting open access, developing the ideal framework conditions for international cooperation between researchers, and exchanging ideas on issues like scientific integrity or gender and diversity aspects. Science Europe also monitors developments in research policy and funding activities at the EU level and develops joint positions on these and other relevant topics. The FWF has been a member of Science Europe from the very beginning and is represented by experts in all working groups that relate to the FWF’s activities. In addition to the FWF, the Austrian Academy of Sciences has also been part of the Science Europe network since 2023.