About Sherpa working group

Within the G7 ministerial framework, a specific configuration has been created to assist the G7 research ministers in their works. The so-called "G7 research Sherpas" is the correspondants group of people (mainly for the national ministries of research) who prepare the ministerial meeting and assist the ministers in G7 acivities. In case there is no research ministerial meeting planned during a G7 presidency, a meeting of the G7 research Sherpas is nevertheless organised to have a follow-up of the works of the thematic sub-groups until the next ministerial meeting.
 
Link to the G7 research ministerial configuration, there's 5 thematic sub-groups : GSO infrastructures, Open science, Future of the oceans, neglected poverty diseases, research financing.