Below are a number of links to websites and documents, related to Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 and specific issues related to the work programme of “Strengthening the European Research Area" (ERA)
Further Insights on the programme
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General Information
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.
- 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
Events and Opportunities
- ERA of Inclusive Gender Equality: Keeping the Momentum, Addressing Challenges through Joint Action – on Feb 13, 2024, GENDERACTIONplus project funded under Horizon Europe, is organizing an hybrid conference, online and in Brussels focusing on the future priorities in gender equility.
- Accelerator for Citizen Science projects – IMPETUS, funded by Horizon Europe, is offering an accelerator programme and financial support to citizen science projects. The projects should address and relate to one of the challenges released by IMPETUS and may be submitted by individuals, legal entities, and consortia from Horizon Europe Member states or Associated Countries. Selected projects will receive training, mentoring and marketing support to advance their project as well financial support of Euro 20K for new projects and Euro 10K for on-going projects. Applications may be submitted by March 14, 2024.
- European Union Prize for Citizen Science – The Prizes are offered to outstanding Citizen Science projects and activities that have either completed in the last two years, started in the last two years and have preliminary outcomes, or older than two years and still active. The prize has 3 categories: The Grand Prize of Euro 60K for outstanding achievements in empowering civil society, and two additional prizes of Euro 20K each for projects addressing Diversity & Collaboration or Digital Communities. Applications may be submitted by March 11, 2024.
Partner Search
- EURAXESS - Information, job offers and support services to professional researchers
HÉTFA Research Institute, in based in Budapest, Hungary, is looking for collaboration partners for the following calls:
- HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01-10: Policy coordination to support all aspects of inclusive Gender Equality Plans and policies in the ERA. Project named: "ST(R)E(A)M IT/STREAMING GIRLS AND WOMEN INTO STEAM EDUCATION, INNOVATION, AND RESEARCH."
- HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01-11: Support to the implementation of inclusive gender equality plans
For more information please contact Dr. Katalin OBORNI, Senior Project Manager & Gender Expert, Email: obornikatalin@hetfa.hu
Open Science
- 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
- 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
Citizen Science
-
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 in Research and Innovation
- 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