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This collection comprises materials relating to EMBO’s advisory role in the foundation of the European Science Open Forum. It contains correspondence, reports, and meeting documents.

This collection comprises materials relating to EMBO at Basel Life, the 2 conferences held in Basel, Switzerland in 2017 and 2018. It contains reports, abstract books, programmes, administrative and organisational documents related to the running of the conference.

This collection comprises materials related to the creation of ELSO and its relationship with EMBO. It contains documents such as the original proposal for the creation of ELSO by Kai Simons, correspondence, the letter of intent re: the fusion of ELSO and EMBO, and documents related to the Nice conference in 2008 eg. Posters, schedule, and financial docs.

This collection comprises materials relating to the defunct Research Awards scheme, which was intended to become a special project of the EMBC. It was superseded by the establishment of the ERC, as EMBO did not want to complete with the initiative.

It contains correspondence, press releases, reports, and working group documents.

This collection comprises documents related to the administration of the EMBO gold medal award. It includes materials such as correspondence, scientific materials related to winners, selection committee votes, press releases, and photographs.

The Gold Medal award was established by EMBO in 1986 in order to celebrate outstanding scientists in the early stages of their careers. Recipients must be life scientists working in one of the EMBC member states under the age of 40, or within ten years of having obtained their PhD. Only EMBO Members and EMBO Young Investigators can nominate candidates for a medal. The selection committee is made up of members of EMBO council, and the director and secretary general act as observers of the EMBO Gold Medal selection committee. The current list of EMBO Gold medallists can be found here:

https://www.embo.org/the-embo-communities/embo-gold-medalists/recipients/

This collection comprises materials related to the women in science program. It contains reports, correspondence, administrative and organisational documents, meeting documents, posters, DVDs, VHS tapes, posters, and photographs.

This collection comprises materials related to the ESF and EMBO’s relationship with the organisation. It contains correspondence and meeting documents, as well as administrative and organisational documents related to the ESF
This collection is processed at the collection level.

This collection comprises materials relating to the Sectoral Meetings held by EMBO. It contains correspondence, and meeting documents such as programmes, participant lists, and reports.

Due to many scientists having primary loyalty to a subsection of molecular biology and therefore a secondary loyalty to molecular biology as a whole, some scientists had the feeling EMBO was not particularly important to their specific sector. The EMBO Council felt that establishing sectoral meetings would be a good way to ensure that the organisation did not miss out on new developments within different areas of the life sciences, and to build up contacts within these areas. It therefore approved meetings with scientists from Neurobiology and Immunology to discuss their impact on society, with a view to holding more meetings on other subsections of the life sciences in the future.

This collection consists of correspondence, and administrative and organisational documents related to EMBO’s involvement in the activities of the ELSF.

In 1999, EMBO, EMBL, and ELSO engaged in talks to create a Forum for the life sciences in Europe, coming together at a meeting at the EMBO headquarters to establish the ELSF shortly thereafter. The ELSF aimed to empower scientists to engage more actively in strategic and science policy matters, to present a unified voice on issues of shared concern, and to enhance the visibility and policy influence of organisations representing the life sciences.

A small governing body was appointed consisting of Frank Gannon, Fotis Kafatos, Kai Simons, and Julio E. Celis as President. Luc van Dyck joined as manager six months after the organisation was created. The secretariat was set up at the EMBL/EMBO facilities in Heidelberg and the EMBL, EMBO, and FEBS offered to cover a large fraction of the expenses for a period of 3 years.

Additionally, the ELSF identified as priorities the career of young scientists and the creation of a European Research Council (ERC) to support basic research.

This collection is comprised of materials relating to EMBO’s contribution to the founding of the European Research Commission (ERC), as well to the framework programmes of the European Community (EC) for research, technological development and demonstration activities. It consists of correspondence, and administrative and organisational documentation.