EUROPEAN COMMISSION
HEALTH AND CONSUMERS DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
Public Health and Risk Assessment
Risk assessment
Apply your science skills to make Europe a better and safer place!
Join the team of top-notch scientists advising the European Commission!
Scientific advice plays a fundamental role in the EU policy-making process.
The European Commission adopts its decisions and proposals based on the best and
most authoritative scientific advice available. Therefore, the Commission now presents
scientists with the rare opportunity to usher science out of the laboratory and into the
policy-making arena. The EU Scientific Risk Assessment Advisory Structure on
matters related to consumer safety, public health, and the environment is a place where
cutting-edge science meets political and legislative power. This is the place where
your scientific skills may influence the lives of millions by providing advice which is
taken up in the drafting of new laws and regulations. This is the place where you will
serve directly the whole of our society.
In addition to contributing to the EU science-based decision making process,
your work for the Scientific Risk Assessment Advisory Structure will bring about a
deep sense of personal satisfaction and professional prestige. The opinions that you
will produce exert important impact on the overall scientific thinking in your area of
expertise. In fact, those much-quoted opinions reach an unusually diverse, worldwide
audience of scientists, politicians, legislators, stakeholders, industrial and citizens'
organizations. The multidisciplinary and highly interactive atmosphere that permeates
the work of the Advisory Structure allows for multiple contacts, open discussions, and
collaboration between scientists including opportunities for dialogue with decision
makers at the highest level. These stimulating work conditions often serve as an
impetus for the generation of new policies and new scientific research ideas. Finally,
advising the European Commission gives right to a financial retribution.
Interested in making a difference in the world? Then apply now at:
http://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/call_experts/call_exp_2011_en.htm