ERA Useful Links

General:

• Strengthening European Research Area National Contact Points (NCPs) 
• EU Funding and Tenders Portal - Post or search for partners, by organizations or individuals. More guidance here
• EURAXESS - Information, job offers and support services to professional researchers
• EURAXESS TOOLS Information flyer
• Twitter:
  • @LERUnews, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) is an association of 23 leading research-intensive universities in Europe
  • @RRING_PROJECT, the RRING project explores Responsible Research & Innovation Globally. The project aims to align RRI with the SDGs & to create a global network
  • @FIT4RRIEU, the FIT4RRI project aims at fostering training tools for RRI and bridging the gap between the role that RRI and open science can have on RFPO
• Horizon Results Booster, for projects approved under Framework Programme 7, Horizon 2020, or Horizon Europe - Apply now to the free of charge EU-funded consultation service assisting projects with marketing design, social media dissemination, market analysis, business plan and strategy, IPR management, pitching to investors, and finding additional funding resources. The services are available until May 2024.

Horizon Europe Framework Programme (2021-2027):

• Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area 2021-2022 Work Programme
• Strengthening the European Research Area 2021-2022 call for proposals application page 
• European Commission - Horizon Europe: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I system
• Gender Equality Plans in Horizon Europe - Applies to all proposals starting January 2022
• Horizon Europe - Gender Equality Plan (GEP) Info Day, organised by ISERD, Israel, October 25, 2021, presentations
• NCP_WIDERA.NET project website - get the most updated information on Widening and ERA calls, collected by the National Contact Points from around the globe.
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• UK Horizon Europe Guarantee Funding - UK funding for winners of Horizon Europe call for proposals. The funding is covering the UK organisations' participation budget while the UK is not part of the Horizon Europe framework. 
• Restrictive measures against Russia - termination of Russian bodies in new and ongoing projects, May 2022

Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (2014-2020):

• The impacts agenda is an autonomous push for opening up and democratizing academia, not part of a neo-liberal hegemony, article by Patrick Dunleavy and Jane Tinkler, LSE Impact Blog, November 2020
• Sustainable development in the European Union — Monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context, 2019, European Commission
• Dynamic Network Analysis of the EU R&I Framework Programme, 2018, European Commission

• EU Award for Gender Equality Champions - Five awards in the amount of €100,000 per winner will be distributed to applicants from higher education establishments and research organisations based in EU Member States and countries associated to Horizon Europe that have achieved outstanding results and implementations of gender equality. Application is open until October 13, 2022
• Science Europe: Open Science Conference 2022 - Hybrid event in Brussels and online, welcoming institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their careers, and experts. The event will take place on October 18-19.
• European Research and Innovation Days: Debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond, organised by the European Commission, September 28-29, 2022
• The Gender Equality Plan eligibility criterion in Horizon Europe: Who is concerned? How to comply with it?, organised by the European Commission, online, June 23, 2022. Recording of the event is available on the event's page.
• Info day for Horizon Europe’s Widening programmes: Hop-On Facility and ERA Talents, and European Research (ERA) Policy, April 27, 2022. To download the event's presentations and watch the recording click here

• EURAXESS - Information, job offers and support services to professional researchers

• Open Research Europe Platform: Article Submission Guidelines - Instructions for authors, European Commission
• Opening Science up to Society, EU-funded projects, published on December 2021
• Enabling open science and societal engagement in research, published by the Publications Office of the European Union, November 2021
• FOSTER+ Project, a project to foster the practical implementation of Open Science in Horizon 2020 and beyond
• @ORION Open Science, a project exploring how research & funding organisations in life science & biomedicine can open up the way they fund, organise & do research

• Science Communication funded projects, Horizon 2020 SwafS (Science with and for Society), published on January 12, 2022
• Science Communication - Policy Brief, by the SIS.Net Project, a SwafS National Contact Points project, published in 2020

• A Reflection Tool for institutional changes in Citizen Science now in Open Access, by Time4CS, a SwafS (Science with and for Society) Project, March 2022

• Mutual Learning Exercise on Citizen Science Initiatives - Policy and Practice, published by the European Commission, February 2022
• EU Citizen.Science, a platform for sharing citizen science projects, resources, tools, training and more
• Citizen Science: Beyond a Buzzword, Webinar by SIS.Net Project, a SwafS (Science with and for Society) National Contact Points project, published on March 2020
• Citizen Science Cluster Workshop Report, published by the European Commission, December 2019

• Gender Equality Strategy Monitoring Portal - identify global strengths and opportunities and follow developments 
• Customized Change - Co-Producing Gender Equality Knowledge in Science and Resaerch in order to facilitate PROs implementing Gender Equality Programs (GEP)
• She Figures 2021 - Gender in research and innovation: Statistics and Indicators
• When it comes to gender inequality in academia, we know more than what can be measured, article by Alesia Zuccala and Gemma Derrick, LSE Impact Blog, January 2021
• Disruptive Measures for Gender Equality in Research and Innovation, report by GenderAction project, May 2020
• Position Paper on Gender Equality Priority in the European Research Area 2020-2030, by ERAC - European Research Area and Innovation Committee, May 2020