Inclusive Gender Equality Champions
HORIZON Recognition Prize
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-GENDER-Prize-03
- Programme
- EU Award for Gender Equality Champions
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- December 12, 2023
- Deadline
- January 25, 2024
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €400,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-GENDER-Prize-03HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-GENDER-Prize
Description
The prizes will boost public awareness of the importance of addressing gender equality in academic and research organisations through institutional change, incentivise a high degree of commitment to the implementation of inclusive GEPs, and create a community of champions inspiring other academic and research organisations into becoming gender equality champions themselves.
Expected Outcome: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.
The “EU Award for Gender Equality Champions” is a recognition prize scheme meant as a booster and complement to the requirement for higher education establishments, research organisations and public bodies applying to Horizon Europe to have in place a Gender Equality Plan (GEP), and a tool for advancing inclusive gender equality plans and policies in the framework of the new ERA policy agenda, in synergy with the European Education Area (EEA) and the European Higher Education Area (EHEA, Bologna process), and in line with the new Communication on a European Strategy for Universities adopted on 18 January 2022.
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 (LGBTIQ) or disability.
Each prize winner will receive EUR 0.1 million: EUR 0.4 million maximum in total from the 2023 budget.
Contestants can only apply to one of the three prize categories and will have to provide proof of eligibility and a written presentation of their achievements, as well as support their applications with a link to a video. The submission consists of a complete application.
Eligibility & Conditions
General conditions
General conditions
1. Admissibility conditions: described in the Rules of Contest for this prize.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in the Rules of Contest for this prize and in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System
2. Eligible countries: described in the Rules of Contest for this prize.
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in the Rules of Contest for this prize.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in the Rules of Contest for this prize.
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Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in the Rules of Contest for this prize.
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Submission and evaluation processes are described in the Rules of Contest for this prize.
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Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in the Rules of Contest for this prize.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in the Rules of Contest for this prize.
Documents
Call documents:
Standard application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System
Additional documents:
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2024 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2024 – 13. General Annexes
HE Framework Programme and Rules for Participation Regulation 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Support & Resources
Online Manual is your guide on the procedures from proposal submission to managing your grant.
Horizon Europe Programme Guide contains the detailed guidance to the structure, budget and political priorities of Horizon Europe.
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – find the answers to most frequently asked questions on submission of proposals, evaluation and grant management.
Research Enquiry Service – ask questions about any aspect of European research in general and the EU Research Framework Programmes in particular.
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The European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for their recruitment – consult the general principles and requirements specifying the roles, responsibilities and entitlements of researchers, employers and funders of researchers.
Partner Search Services help you find a partner organisation for your proposal.
Latest Updates
Published: 12.12.2023
Deadline: 25.01.2024
Available budget: EUR 400,000.00
The results of the evaluation are as follows:
Number of applications submitted: 35
Number of inadmissible and/ or ineligible applications: 15
Winners: 3
For more information on the winners please see the prize website.
Summary of observer report:
An independent observer analysed the efficiency of the procedures, usability of the evaluation instruments including IT tools, conduct and fairness of the evaluation process and compliance with the applicable rules. An independent observer report was provided to the European Research Executive Agency (REA) service responsible for the call HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-GENDER-Prize, including recommendations for possible improvements on the policy and procedural aspects related to the application and evaluation configurations of future editions of this prize.
There were 35 proposals submitted for the three prize categories (GENDER-Prize-01 Sustainable Gender Equality Champions, GENDER-Prize-02 Newcomer Gender Equality Champions, GENDER-Prize-03 Inclusive Gender Equality Champions). Following thorough admissibility and eligibility checks, 20 proposals were considered for evaluation.
External experts were contracted from a large pool, previously agreed by DG Research and Innovation (DG RTD). Experts were selected considering absence of conflict-of-interest checks, as well as specific expertise, and various parameters to ensure a gender and geographical - balanced evaluation panel.
The evaluation process was found to have been well-run and compliant, also commended by the external experts for its smooth operation. The procedures followed were very effective, efficient, and conducted in an inclusive way. All experts were actively engaged, and the atmosphere was positive. The experts’ briefings and the context provided through introductions to meetings were always clear and eloquently delivered. Consensus meetings were suitably organised and managed on facilitating discussions among experts on each evaluated proposal regarding convergent and divergent points when needed, to integrate well experts’ agreement in the consensus reports. Panel meetings were conducted appropriately following the procedures to check consistency and coherence of the evaluation process and decide on the ranking lists per prize category.
The maximum budget for the call was EUR 400,000 and each prize winner will receive EUR 100,000. The ranking of proposals per prize category and the award decisions considered the number of allocated prizes per category as defined in the published Rules of Contest.
We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.
For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.
Call HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-GENDER-Prize has closed on the 25 January 2024.
35 proposals have been submitted.
The breakdown per topic is:
- HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-GENDER-Prize-01: 10 proposals
- HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-GENDER-Prize-02: 21 proposals
- HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-GENDER-Prize-03: 4 proposals
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in May 2024.