Category Archives: General

  • Horizon Europe guidance on gender equality plans

    This Guidance supports organisations to meet the Gender Equality Plan (GEP) eligibility criterion of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2021-2027. For Horizon Europe calls for proposals with deadlines in 2022 and beyond, applying public bodies, research organisations...
  • Citizens’ engagement: Launch of new centre for designi

    The Commission is launching a competence centre on participatory and deliberative democracy in its Joint Research Centre (JRC). The competence centre will foster partnerships and provide guidance, tools and resources to strengthen citizen engagement in policy. The rise in citizens’ assemblies, juries, and...
  • Coronavirus: Commission steps up research funding with â

    The Commission has short-listed 11 new projects worth €120 million from Horizon Europe, the biggest European research and innovation programme (2021-2027), for supporting and enabling urgent research into the coronavirus and its variants. This funding is part of a wide range...
  • EU Grants: AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement

    The AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement is a user guide that aims to explain to applicants and beneficiaries the EU Model Grant Agreements (General MGA, Lump Sum MGA, Unit MGA, Operating Grants MGA and FPA) for the EU funding programmes 2021-2027....
  • ERC adopts new Gender Equality Plan

    GENDER SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL INTERVIEW The ERC Scientific Council adopted the Gender Equality Plan  for the duration of the Horizon Europe programme. Interview with Prof. Barbara Romanowicz, member of the Scientific Council and Chair of its Gender Issues Working Group was presented below: The ERC Scientific Council...
  • EU to launch new support scheme for women in deep tech a

    On International Women’s Day, the Commission announced a new initiative called ‘Women TechEU’ to support women leading deep tech start-ups in Europe, and help grow their companies into tomorrow’s deep tech champions. ‘Women TechEU’ will offer first-class coaching and mentoring to...
  • One step closer to a timely start of Horizon Europe

    The EU research ministers reached agreement on the open issues of the Horizon Europe legislation and are ready for negotiations with the European Parliament. Suddenly everything went very fast: The Horizon Europe package was waiting to be finalised since the European...
  • IMI call for proposals for the Covid-19

    A call for research proposals (deadline 31 March 2020) was announced by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) on 3 March 2020 that aims to support projects that develop treatments and diagnostics to better tackle the COVID-19 outbreak and to increase preparedness for future possible...
  • Shaping Europe’s digital future

    The Commission unveils its ideas and actions for a digital transformation that works for all, reflecting the best of Europe: open, fair, diverse, democratic and confident. It presents a European society powered by digital solutions that put people first, opens up new opportunities...
  • Updated draft of EIC Work Program

    The European Commission has published a draft of the updated work program of the European Innovation Council. The document contains new calls that will be published by the end of 2020. Increased attention is paid to topics related to the priorities...