Policy coordination to advance the implementation of the ERA gender equality and inclusiveness objectives within Member States

Call Updates:

Jan 19, 2022 4:12:33 PM

Flash information on the CALL results (EVALUATION RESULTS)

Call identifier: HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01

Call title: European Research Area (18 topics)

Published: 15/06/2021

Deadline: 23/09/2021

Available budget: Total budget: EUR 61.50 million

The Research Executive Agency has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call. The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted: 44

Number of inadmissible / ineligible proposals: 0

Number of withdrawn proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 35

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals:EUR 100,742,326

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

It is expected that the grant agreements will be signed in May 2022.

Information on the selected projects will be published on https://cordis.europa.eu/projects/en  after that date.

Please note that the number of proposals that can finally be funded will depend on the finally available budget and the formal selection by the Research Executive Agency.

For questions, please contact the https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation_en

Jun 23, 2021 1:05:14 PM

The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-81(HORIZON-CSA)

Policy coordination to advance the implementation of the ERA gender equality and inclusiveness objectives within Member States
TOPIC ID: HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-81

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: European Research Area (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01)
Type of action: HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
Type of MGA: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned opening date: 22 June 2021
Deadline date: 23 September 2021 17:00:00 Brussels time

Topic description

ExpectedOutcome:

Projects are expected to contribute to the following expected outcomes:

• Development of a consistent and sustainable coordination network of national representatives on gender equality and inclusiveness in support of the implementation of the ERA Communication policy objectives, leading to better coordination of Member States' efforts.

Scope:

The new European Research Area (Communication of 30 September 2020 on “A new ERA for Research and Innovation”) is foreseeing strong measures to promote inclusive gender equality plans in Research and Innovation (R&I) organisations, in line with the European Strategy for Gender Equality for the period 2020-2025, to which R&I, and Horizon Europe, must contribute actively. As the new ERA Communication and the Council Conclusions of 1 December 2020 on the new ERA underline, there is a need for policy coordination to advance the implementation of the ERA gender equality and inclusiveness objectives within the Member States. Ensuring the active promotion of equal opportunities for all includes opening up gender equality policies in R&I to diversity, and more specifically to: social categories and grounds for discrimination intersecting with gender, such as ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or else socio-economic status; geographical inclusiveness; and opening to the innovation and private sector. This new inclusive approach to gender equality is also embedded in the new European Commission Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025.

Building on related projects and actions supported through Horizon 2020, including project GENDERACTION, the action focuses on the establishment of a sustainable network of national representatives from all EU Member States and Associated Countries, both from national bodies (e.g. ministries) and from national research funding organisations, to support the implementation of the gender equality and inclusiveness objectives of the ERA. During its lifetime, the action should:

• Develop various innovative and engagement activities, connect citizens, experts and policy makers, as well as contribute to policy making at national and European administration level.
• Provide support and advancing the knowledge of representatives of widening countries is of particular importance. The action should also develop knowledge and build capacities, competences and expertise for gender equality and mainstreaming in R&I with a variety of European and national stakeholders. Special consideration will be given to mutual learning exercises to enhance the competence of national gender equality representatives, including helping less experienced national gender representatives to acquire expertise.
• Establish a transnational Community of Practice of R&I funding organisations for the promotion of a gender-inclusive culture change in R&I institutions across Europe, linked through a Memorandum of Understanding. Specific attention should be paid to promoting the development of incentives or setting requirements at research funding level to foster institutional change in organisations, as well as establishing a zero-tolerance policy on gender-based violence including sexual harassment in R&I organisations.
• A specific focus should also be placed on promoting the integration of the gender dimension into R&I content, with an opening to intersectionality. For this, the action should foresee mobilising national expertise on the integration of the sex and gender analysis in R&I content to support the different Horizon Europe National Contact Points in all EU Member States.
• The work by this action should be performed in coordination with ERA-related official groups, and in collaboration with the European Commission, in line with ERA objectives.

The participation of at least 23 Member States, and in addition, of national representatives from Associated Countries, to the consortium, is strongly encouraged, and the project must engage and deploy activities with all EU Member States and, as much as possible, with all Associated Countries.

Cross-cutting Priorities:
Socio-economic science and humanities
Societal Engagement
Social Innovation