
Serces to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs in the macro-region 1 in Romania
- Funding agency:
- Horizon 2020
- Status:
- awarded
- Location:
- Romania

Call Updates
Feb 18, 2022 7:05:10 PM
EVALUATION results
Call: HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01 (Protecting and nurturing democracies)
Published: 18.06.2021
Deadline: 07.10.2021
Available budget: EUR 49.500.000
The results of the evaluation are as follows:
Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 68
Number of inadmissible proposals: 1
Number of ineligible proposals: 2
Number of above-threshold proposals: 48
Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 143.318.624
We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.
For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation_en
Oct 11, 2021 11:32:19 AM
The Call HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01 (Protecting and nurturing democracies) has closed on the 7th October 2021.
68 proposals have been submitted.
The breakdown per topic is:
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in February 2022.
Jun 22, 2021 4:20:00 PM
The submission session is now available for:HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01-04(HORIZON-RIA)
Democratic politics in the EU’s neighbourhood
TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01-04
Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: Protecting and nurturing democracies (HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01)
Type of action: HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Type of MGA: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned opening date: 22 June 2021
Deadline date: 07 October 2021 17:00:00 Brussels time
Topic description
ExpectedOutcome:
Projects should contribute to at least two of the following expected outcomes:
Scope:
Since the EU Council conclusions of 2009, EU democracy support has evolved and has been fine-tuned, with advances and setbacks. Following the adoption of the EU strategic framework on human rights and democracy in 2012, the EU adopted three Action Plans[1] in order to implement its commitments and reach its goals. The current Action Plan covers years 2020-2024[2].
Despite the hopes raised by the ‘colour revolutions’ in Eastern Europe in the 2000s and the Arab Spring in 2011 as boosters of democratisation in the European neighbourhood, a more troubling reality persists: some democratic advances coexist with the continued persistence of authoritarian rule in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North African countries. Research should assess the EU’s actual role in promoting democracy. It should examine the EU’s influence on political governance in the neighbourhood, its capacity to react and address potential gaps between the declared intentions, and the results and consequences of its democracy support policies. Critical reflection should facilitate understanding of the dynamics, including opposition to the EU’s democratic efforts in the neighbourhood. Such an overarching assessment should contribute to innovations in democratisation policies corresponding to the realities on the ground.
Proposals are expected to address some of the following points: To take stock of developments in democracy building or failure in the EU’s neighbourhood countries. Research should draw lessons as regards success factors and barriers (political, economic, social, cultural, etc.) in the different regional, national and supranational contexts. The role of third country actors like the United States of America, China, Russia and their impact on democratisation processes or the entrenchment of authoritarianism should be examined. Similarly, the interplay of security and stability considerations and democratisation support in the EU’s agenda and actions should be analysed. Proposals should also assess the mechanisms the EU uses to support political change, as well as examine the discourses and narratives it employs and the actors it targets. They are expected to collect reliable and comparable data on funding for democracy, human rights, gender equality, the rule of law and good governance support, in order to build an account of the outcomes of a decade’s efforts, and thus facilitate learning and improvement. International cooperation with partners from countries in the EU’s neighbourhood is strongly encouraged.
Cross-cutting Priorities:
Socio-economic science and humanities
Africa
[1](2012-2014 ; 2015-2019 ; 2020-2024)
[2]https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=JOIN:2020:5:FIN
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