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TheScientific Advice Mechanism is a service created by theEuropean Commission which provides independentscience advice on request directly toEuropean Commissioners.^[1]

The Mechanism consists of three parts: theGroup of Chief Scientific Advisors, an expert group consisting of up to seven leading scientists;^[2]SAPEA, a consortium of five European academy networks collectively representing around 120academies and learned societies acrossEurope;^[3] and a unit within the European Commission (Unit RTD.02 Science Policy, Advice and Ethics) which serves as a secretariat to the Advisors.^[4]

The core of the Scientific Advice Mechanism is the European Commission's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, an expert group consisting of up to seven leading scientists, selected by the European Commission assisted by an independent identification committee. The Advisors are supported by a dedicated secretariat, Unit RTD.02, informally known as the "SAM Unit", staffed by theDirectorate-General for Research and Innovation andJoint Research Centre.

The Group of Chief Scientific Advisors currently consists of the following seven members:

Previous members of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors include:^[12]

• Julia Slingo (2015–2016)
• Henrik Wegener (2015–2017)
• Cédric Villani (2015–2017)
• Janusz Bujnicki (2015–2020)
• Pearl Dykstra (2015-2020)
• Rolf-Dieter Heuer (2015-2020)
• Carina Keskitalo (2016-2021)
• Paul Nurse (2016-2021)
• Éva Kondorosi (2020-2023)
• Maarja Kruusmaa (2020-2024)
• Alberto Melloni (2020-2024)
• Nicole Grobert (2018–2025)
• Eric Lambin (2021–2025)
• Eva Zažímalová (2021–2025)
• Nebojša Nakićenović (2020–2025)

SAPEA brings together around 120academies, young academies and learned societies. Its role as part of the Scientific Advice Mechanism is to provide high-quality, independent evidence to underpin the Scientific Opinions produced by the Chief Scientific Advisors. SAPEA has the ability to convene experts from some 40 countries across Europe, spanning the disciplines of engineering, humanities, medicine, natural sciences and social sciences.

The SAPEA consortium brings together six umbrella networks jointly representing Europe's academies:

• Academia Europaea^[13]
• All European Academies^[14]
• European Academies Science Advisory Council^[15]
• European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering^[16]
• Federation of European Academies of Medicine^[17]
• Young Academies Science Advice Structure^[18]

At present, SAPEA is funded by a grant from the European Union'sHorizon Europe programme through to May 2029.^[19]

The Scientific Advice Mechanism has issued advice in the form of Scientific Opinions, explanatory notes or statements, supported by evidence review reports, on the following topics:^[20]

Until 2016, science advice in theEuropean Commission was provided by a single Chief Scientific Advisor who reported directly to thePresident of the European Commission. The last Chief Scientific Advisor, serving from 2012 to 2014, wasDame Anne Glover.

On 1 November 2014, European Commission PresidentJean-Claude Juncker askedCarlos Moedas, Commissioner forResearch, Innovation and Science in his mission letter to "make sure that Commission proposals and activities are based on sound scientific evidence and contribute best to our jobs and growth agenda". Following this, on 13 May 2015, Juncker announced the establishment of the Scientific Advice Mechanism. The first seven members of the Advisors were identified, following a European call for nominations, in January 2016.

In December 2016, SAPEA was officially launched to support the Advisors by providing scientific evidence review reports. Its funding was renewed in 2020 and again in 2025.

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