Deadline: 13-Oct-22
The European Commission (EC) is seeking nominations for its Gender Equality Champions. The award is meant as a booster and complement to the requirement for higher education and research organisations applying to Horizon Europe to have in place a Gender Equality Plan (GEP) in place, and as an enabler for the new priority on inclusive gender equality plans and the transformation agenda for universities set in the new European Research Area, in synergy with the European Education Area and in line with the new European Strategy for Universities.
Prize Categories
The Prize will be awarded to up to four academic or research organisations, and contestants can apply to one among the following three prize categories:
- Sustainable Gender Equality Champions: Organisations that can demonstrate a significant and sustained record of activity and a high level of achievement through the implementation of their GEP;
- Newcomer Gender Equality Champions: Organisations that have recently started implementing a GEP and can demonstrate the most progress in its implementation and achieved results;
- Inclusive Gender Equality Champions: Organisations that have developed the most innovative inclusive GEP addressing intersections with other social categories such as ethnicity, social origin, sexual orientation and gender identity (LGBTI+) or disability.
Award Details
Each prize winner will receive EUR 0.1 million: EUR 0.4 million maximum in total, from the 2022 budget.
Expected Outcomes
- Enable the creation of a European community of academic and research champions in institutional transformation towards inclusive gender equality.
- Strengthening of the inclusiveness and connectivity objectives under the new European Research Area.
Eligibility Criteria
- The contestant must be a university, higher education institution, or research performing organisation (public or private) located in an EU Member State or a country associated to Horizon Europe.
- Applicants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize cannot receive a second prize for the same activities.
- In order to be eligible, the applicant must:
- be a legal entity (public or private body)
- be a university, higher education institution or a research performing organisation (public or private)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member State (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- non-EU country associated to the Horizon Europe (associated countries) or country which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement applies before the award.
Essential Award Criteria
- Eligible applications will be evaluated by a Jury consisting of a group of independent experts, with expertise on gender equality plan implementation and intersectional approaches in research and higher education institutions, appointed by the Commission.
- The prize will be awarded, after closure of the contest, to the contestants who in the opinion of the jury best address a set of cumulative criteria set for each of the three prize categories.
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