Annual Meetings of the GRC

The 15th Annual Meeting of the GRC will take place in May 2027. It is co-hosted by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa and the German Research Foundation (DFG).

The 14th Annual Meeting will be held from 17–21 May 2026 in Bangkok, Thailand. It will be co-hosted by Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada.

The 13th Annual GRC Meeting was held from 18–22 May 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The event was co-hosted by the Research, Development, and Innovation Authority (RDIA) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) of Saudi Arabia, together with The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).

The 12th GRC Annual Meeting was held from 27–31 May 2024 in Interlaken, Switzerland. The event was co-hosted by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Fonds pour la Science, la Technologie et l'Innovation (FONSTI), Côte d'Ivoire’s national funder.

The 11^th GRC Annual Meeting was held at the Peace Palace in the Hague, the Netherlands, from 29 May to 2 June 2023. The event was hosted by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and co-hosted by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). The event included seven side events, technical visits, GRC regional meetings and the GRC Annual Meeting programme which included panel discussions and reflections with keynote speakers and break-out group chairs and rapporteurs.

The 10th GRC Annual Meeting, was held from 28 May – 2 June 2022 in Panama City, Panama. The Meeting was hosted by National Secretary of The National Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation (SENACYT) and co-hosted by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).

The 9^th GRC Annual Meeting, originally scheduled to take place in Durban, South Africa, was held from 24-28 May 2021 in a virtual format in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The Meeting was jointly hosted by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa, and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). 

The 8^th GRC Annual Meeting was held from 1 - 3 May 2019 in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The meeting was jointly hosted by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET).

The 7^th Annual Meeting of the Global Research Council was held on the 14-16 May in Moscow, Russia. The meeting was jointly hosted by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).

From 29 - 31 May 2017, the heads of close to 50 science and engineering funding agencies from around the world and over 100 delegates met for the 6^th Annual Meeting of the Global Research Council to share information and best practices to support high-quality collaboration among funding agencies worldwide.

The 5^th Annual Meeting of the Global Research Council was held from 25-27 May 2016 in New Delhi, India. The meeting was jointly hosted by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the Indian Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB).

The 4^th Annual Global Meeting of the Global Research Council (GRC) was held on May 26-28 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. The meeting was hosted jointly by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa.

The 3^rd Annual Global Meeting of the Global Research Council (GRC) took place on May 26-28 2014 in Beijing, China. The meeting was hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

On 29 May 2013, the 2^nd Annual Meeting of the Global Research Council (GRC) in Berlin has ended. Over three days, the heads of about 70 science and research councils from around the world as well as high-ranking guests from science and research, science administration and research policy attended the meeting.

The Global Summit on Merit Review was hosted by the U.S. National Science Foundation from May 13-15, 2012.  Almost 50 Heads of Research Councils, primarily representing the G-20 and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, attended the event.