Joint Committees of the Nordic Research Councils NOS
Joint Committees of the Nordic Research Councils – NOS The Joint Committees of the Nordic Research Councils NOS is a cooperation committee for the Nordic research councils.
The NOS-structure is made up of the following joint committees:
- NOS-HS: Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
- NOS-M: Joint Committee of the Nordic Medical Research Council
- NOS-N: Joint Committee of the Nordic Natural Science Research Councils
- NKJ: Nordic Joint Committee for Agricultural Research
In addition, a Nordic Publications Committee for Humanist and Social Sciences Periodicals (NOP-HS) has been established as part of NOS-HS.
The purpose of the joint committees is to promote and stimulate the cooperation between researchers in the Nordic countries through collaboration and coordination.
The research activities are financed “bottom-up” by the participating research councils.
Through the joint committees, the councils also keep each other informed about research development within the respective countries. Furthermore, the NOS-committees stay in continuous contact with the Nordic Council of Ministers, NordForsk and the Baltic research councils.
The chairmanship and the functions of the secretariat rotate between the Nordic member countries.
During the period 2007-2010, the secretariat is based at the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation in Copenhagen. The Danish representatives in the NOS-committees are typically the heads of the scientific research councils.
