Sense about Science EU is an independent campaigning NGO that monitors the use and abuse of scientific evidence in EU policy. We advocate openness and honesty about research findings, and work to ensure the public interest in sound science and evidence is recognised in public discussion and policy making.

Legal form

Non-profit organization

Objectives

Our primary areas of focus are:

• Promoting the scientific method.
• Tackling systematic misrepresentation of science and evidence.
• Championing the use of evidence for better, more accountable policies.
• Talking about difficult issues.

Main Activities

• We challenge the misrepresentation of science and evidence in public life and intervene when necessary, in partnership with others, to hold those responsible to account.  
• We encourage the public to ask for evidence, offering insight into how to analyse evidence and ask the right questions. And we encourage researchers and decision makers to talk about evidence, particularly when it is controversial or difficult.
• We press for openness and honest reporting and challenge intimidation.

Strengths

Sense about Science is a small team working with thousands of supporters, from world leading researchers to community groups. It is a diverse band of people who share the goal of better representation of evidence in public life, and it is growing.

Finance and Main Partners

Individual givings: 31,60 %

Professional and learned societies: 25,37 %

Publishers: 8,37%

Companies: 0,18 %

Trusts and foundations (Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Kohn Foundation, Fondation de Luxembourg, Wellcome Trust, JRSST, Open Society Foundations): 33,88%

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