The Royal Society

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Overview

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

Lobbying Costs

None declared

Financial year: Apr 2022 - Mar 2023

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1.5 Fte (6)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

3

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    The Royal Society

    EU Transparency Register

    041898210470-66 First registered on 16 Jan 2013

    Goals / Remit

    The Society’s fundamental purpose, reflected in its founding Charters of the 1660s, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.
    The Society's strategy priorities are:
    - The Fellowship, Foreign Membership and beyond
    - Influencing in the UK and globally
    - Research system and culture
    - Science and society
    - Corporate and governance
    In addition to these five priority areas, the following four considerations underpin and cut across all aspects of the Royal Society’s work:
    - Independence
    - Partnership and convening
    - Equality, diversity and inclusion
    - International and global focus

    Main EU files targeted

    Horizon 2020
    Horizon Europe
    General Data Protection Regulation
    Climate ADAPT
    European Fund for Strategic Investment
    Digital single market and copyright reform
    Next generation internet
    European Innovation Council
    European Research Area
    European Green Deal

    Address

    Head Office
    Carlton House Terrace, 6 - 9
    London SW1Y 5AG
    UNITED KINGDOM
    EU Office
    Carlton House Terrace, 6 - 9
    London SW1Y 5AG
    UNITED KINGDOM

    Website

    http://royalsociety.org/

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    6

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%6

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1.5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    These staff members may in reality each devote less than 25% of their time to activities carried out with the objective of directly or indirectly influencing the formulation or implementation of policy and the decision-making processes of the EU institutions

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

    Person with legal responsibility

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

  • Categories

    Category

    Academic institutions

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    European Academies of Science Advisory Council (EASAC)
    European Federation of National Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA)
    International Science Council (ISC)
    InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)
    Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
    Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
    Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
    Membership of the European Academies Consortia (SAPEA)
    International Union of Radio Science (URSI)

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Does not represent commercial interests

    Closed financial year

    Apr 2022 - Mar 2023

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

    Total organisational budget in closed year

    163,063,864€

    Major funding types in closed year

    Member's contribution, Public financing, Other, Grants, Donations

    Funding types "other" information

    Major contributions in closed year

    TypeNameAmount
    Contribution Core Grant from Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT) 126,492,138€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    Climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development

    Communication activities

    Royal Society submission to the 2023 Spring Budget
    Climate change in the critical decade
    Royal Society submission to the BEIS review to net zero
    Written response to UKRI’s New Deal for Postgraduate Research consultation
    Science as a guiding light in challenging times: Royal Society proposals for the 2022-23 parliamentary session
    Effects of net zero policies and climate change on air quality
    Biodiversity and climate change: interlinkages and policy options
    Royal Society co-hosted round-table for the G7 on data for health emergencies
    Submission to the Commons International Development Committee inquiry into the future UK aid
    Factsheet: Research and innovation in Scotland
    Climate Change: science and solutions
    Bibliometric analysis of shale gas research
    Research and innovation clusters report
    Consultation response on R&D road map survey
    Soil structure and its benefits
    Future food: health and sustainability conference report
    Transforming UK translation conference report
    Climate change: evidence and causes
    Statement on reasons to keep UK science in European programmes.
    Ammonia; zero carbon fertiliser, fuel and energy store
    Conference report for the future of photonics; sensors and quantum technologies
    S(cience) 7 statements
    Recommendation on the G7 forum
    Royal Society climate change briefings
    Sustainable synthetic carbon-based fuels for transport
    iHuman perspective: Neural interfaces
    Microplastics in freshwater and soil
    Reasons to keep UK science in European programmes
    Ammonia: zero-carbon fertiliser, fuel and energy store
    Soil structure and its benefits
    Why the UK must associate to Horizon Europe
    Greenhouse Gas Removal
    Keeping global warming to 1.5°C: Challenges and opportunities for the UK
    UK research and the European Union project
    Progress and research in cybersecurity: Supporting a resilient and trustworthy system for the UK
    Machine Learning: the power and promise of computers that learn by example
    Data management and use: Governance in the 21st century
    Genetic technologies public dialogue
    Low-carbon energy programme
    Climate updates – progress since the fifth assessment Report (AR5) of the IPCC
    Future ocean resources
    UK research and the European Union projects (including technopolis etc)
    International mobility of researchers – RAND commissions
    National Academy briefing for commons committee stage of the advanced research and invention agency (ARIA) bill
    Bibliometric analysis of shale gas research
    The Society also engages in work in Europe as a member of EASAC and ALLEA.

    Other activities

    Membership of European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) - www.easac.eu/
    Membership of the European Federation of National Academies of Science and Humanities (ALLEA) - https://allea.org/
    Membership of the European Academies Consortia (SAPEA) - https://www.sapea.info/

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    3 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

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