Experimentation and exchange of good practices for value creation

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Code: 31992 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/12/2023 | End submission calls: 12/03/2024

To bring existing good practices in knowledge valorisation to support value creation across Europe, we need more experimentation, peer learning and testing of new models as well as trying out good practices in different environments.

Replication and adaptation of best practices is a powerful way to support the design, implementation and evaluation of knowledge valorisation investments and measures that enhance the quality and extent of knowledge uptake at all levels.

Capacity building on Intellectual Property (IP) management to support open science

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Code: 31990 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/12/2023 | End submission calls: 12/03/2024

This topc is focused on capacity building on Intellectual Property (IP) management to support open science.

This calls for supporting education and training in IP management that enables open science and for building capacity in research organisations and their staff, with the objective to support and equip researchers at all stages of their career with the knowledge they need in this area.

Strengthening researchers’ skills for better careers – leveraging the European Competence Framework for Researchers

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Code: 31987 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/12/2023 | End submission calls: 12/03/2024

Skills are of utmost importance for researchers, they allow them to perform high quality research, and to make the overall European R&I system competitive and challenges-proof. However, it is crucial that researchers are equipped not only with research-specific skills, but also with transversal skills that allow them to be interoperable between academia and the other sectors, including industry and business, and to be capable to establish entrepreneurial activities to turn innovative ideas into business and lead to social, environmental and economic profitability.

Being equipped with a wide spectrum of skills is of high benefit for researchers, who can have access to an enlarged number of opportunities for career development compared to the limited ones available in academia, but also for the labour market, which is in constant need for highly skilled talents such as researchers.

Support to the development and implementation of policies and practices for reproducibility of scientific results

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Code: 31985 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/12/2023 | End submission calls: 12/03/2024

Increasing the reproducibility of scientific results, i.e., the possibility for scientists and the scientific community to obtain the same results as the originators, contributes to higher quality and more efficient research processes, more trustworthy results, increasing reuse by other researchers, more effective translation into innovations, and higher return on investments in research.

The aim of this topic is to facilitate the development and implementation of policies and practices, by research performing organisations, research funding organisations, learned societies and publishers that enhance reproducibility of scientific results.

Support for the professionalisation of research management

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Code: 31983 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/12/2023 | End submission calls: 12/03/2024

There is a strong need for creating sustained pan-European research management training – both in virtual and in non-virtual curricula.

This action aims to contribute to improve the European R&I system across the entire ERA by particularly strengthening the capacity for research management in the European Union’s public research performing and funding organisations.

The aim of this action is to further develop and implement a methodology to identify, train and ‘professionalise’ individuals who are essential support for the ‘research enterprise’.

Programme level collaboration between national R&I policy-makers

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Code: 31981 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/12/2023 | End submission calls: 12/03/2024

This topic is focused on the programme level collaboration between national R&I policy-makers.

The actions funded under this topic will coordinate national and regional R&I funding programmes by pooling national resources and contributing to the alignment of national research and innovation policies.

Global cooperation in not-for-profit open access publishing

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Code: 31979 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/12/2023 | End submission calls: 12/03/2024

The aim of this topic is to support the cooperation between such not-for-profit publishing services and their editors to enable the flow of knowledge between the European Union and one or more other areas of the world, and in more than one discipline. It is expected that most of the activities of the actions will take place online, and that platforms and other online tools will be used to perform as many of the activities as possible.

Next generation AI and Human Behaviour: promoting an ethical approach

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Code: 31976 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01-12 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/12/2023 | End submission calls: 12/03/2024

One of the key challenges is that the meaning and appropriate interpretation of the key concepts and principles in AI guidelines will often be highly context specific.
To develop affective AI systems, researchers aim to improve their understanding of the way the human brain learns and transfers knowledge. Potentially, this understanding will help to build explainable, trustworthy, and human-centric AI systems and processes.

Support to the implementation of inclusive gender equality plans

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Code: 31973 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01-11 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/12/2023 | End submission calls: 12/03/2024

This inclusion scheme aims to strengthen and go beyond the minimum GEP requirements as defined in Horizon Europe  eligibility criterion and to support the implementation of inclusive GEPs and policies, in line with the new ERA policy agenda objectives.

Actions should clearly outline the approach for boosting gender equality strategies by addressing new areas, such as intersectionality and diversity, gender budgeting, gender and innovation, and the long-term impact of COVID-19 on gender equality in R&I, among others.

Policy coordination to support all aspects of inclusive Gender Equality Plans and policies in the ERA

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Code: 31971 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01-10 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/12/2023 | End submission calls: 12/03/2024

There is a need for policy coordination to advance the implementation of the ERA gender equality and inclusiveness objectives within Member States, Associated Countries and among other ERA stakeholders, building on the commitment expressed through the Ljubljana Declaration on gender equality in research and innovation.

This action focuses on the development of a sustainable network of national representatives from all EU Member States and Associated Countries, both from national bodies (e.g., ministries) and from national research funding organisations, to support the implementation of the gender equality and inclusiveness objectives of the ERA.

CLIMAXX First Call for Regions and Communities

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Code: 31969 | Identifier Code: CLIMAXX First Call | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 08/12/2023 | End submission calls: 08/03/2024

CLIMAte risk and vulnerability Assessment framework and toolboX (CLIMAAX), is a Horizon Europe project that will provide financial and practical support to carry out regional climate risk analyses to improve climate and emergency risk management plans. CLIMAAX builds its activities upon existing state-of-the-art risk assessment frameworks, methods and tools, and promotes the use of datasets and service platforms for local and regional scale deployment. It fosters an inclusive, harmonized and robust approach to undertaking, or pursuing, the assessment of climate risk through a Framework for climate risk assessment and a supporting climate change multi-risk assessment Toolbox.

Organised Crime

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Code: 31967 | Identifier Code: ISF-2023-TF2-AG-OC-Organised-Crime | Programme name: 14688 | Start submission calls: 12/12/2023 | End submission calls: 12/03/2024

The objective of the call for proposals is combating organised crime by dismantling criminal networks and their business models. In addition, the call aims to focus on two specific crimes that require particular attention due to their prevalence and damage to citizens and society as a whole: drug trafficking and trafficking in human beings.

Networks of Towns

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Code: 31965 | Identifier Code: CERV-2024-CITIZENS-TOWN-NT | Programme name: 2926 | Start submission calls: 14/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

It is expected that Networks of Towns projects reflect on a holistic narrative for Europe, one that is citizen-oriented, equality promoting, forward-looking and constructive that would be more engaging for the younger generation in particular. Projects may be based on the outcome of citizens’ consultations and may lead to debates about concrete ways to create a more democratic Union, to enable citizens to re-engage with the EU and to develop a stronger sense of ownership of the European project.

Networks of Towns should provide towns and municipalities the possibility to deepen and intensify their cooperation and debate in a long-term perspective, to develop sustainable networks and to outline their long-term vision for the future of European integration.

EU Award for (Academic) Gender Equality Champions

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Code: 31962 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-GENDER-Prize | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/12/2023 | End submission calls: 25/01/2024

This is a call (contest) for an EU recognition prize in the field of gender equality and inclusiveness. The “EU Award for (Academic) Gender Equality Champions” is a Prize scheme 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) as an eligibility criterion, and a tool for advancing inclusive gender equality plans and policies in the framework of the new ERA policy agenda.

In total, there will be four winners:

• two winners in the prize category “Sustainable Gender Equality Champions”
• one winner in the prize category “Newcomer Gender Equality Champions”
• one winner in the prize category “Inclusive Gender Equality Champions”

Call for proposals for operating grants to non-governmental organisations

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Code: 31960 | Identifier Code: EU4H-2024-OG | Programme name: 10993 | Start submission calls: 06/12/2023 | End submission calls: 31/01/2024

The objective is to ensure the participation of health NGOs in activities that are necessary to implement one or more specific objectives of the EU4Health Programme.

Actions to Boost the Development of Finance Markets for Social Enterprises

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Code: 31958 | Identifier Code: ESF-2023-SUPPLY-DEMAND | Programme name: 20859 | Start submission calls: 05/12/2023 | End submission calls: 14/03/2024

This call has opened under the Employment and Social Innovation (“EaSI”) strand of the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+).
The objective of this call is to develop social enterprise finance markets by bringing together the supply and demand side actors to facilitate the creation of financial instruments and to prepare social enterprises for investments.

Cooperation Partnerships

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Code: 31953 | Programme name: 2918 | Sub-program: Key Action 2 (KA2) – Cooperation among organisations and institutions | Start submission calls: 01/11/2023 | End submission calls: 05/03/2024

The primary goal of Cooperation Partnerships is to allow organisations to increase the quality and relevance of their activities, to develop and reinforce their networks of partners, to increase their capacity to operate jointly at transnational level, boosting internationalisation of their activities and through exchanging or developing new practices and methods as well as sharing and confronting ideas.

Small-scale Partnerships

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Code: 31950 | Programme name: 2918 | Sub-program: Key Action 2 (KA2) – Cooperation among organisations and institutions | Start submission calls: 01/11/2023 | End submission calls: 05/03/2024

Small-scale Partnerships are designed to widen access to the programme to small-scale actors and individuals who are hard to reach in the fields of school education, adult education, vocational education and training, youth and sport. With lower grant amounts awarded to organisations, shorter duration and simpler administrative requirements compared to the Cooperation Partnerships, this action aims at reaching out to grassroots organisations, less experienced organisations and newcomers to the Programme, reducing entry barriers to the programme for organisations with smaller organisational capacity. This action will also support flexible formats – mixing activities with transnational and national character although with a European dimension – allowing organisations to have more means to reach out to people with fewer opportunities. Small-scale Partnerships can also contribute to the creation and development of transnational networks and to fostering synergies with, and between, local, regional, national and international policies.

2nd 6G-SANDBOX Open Call: New Infrastructures and Functionalities & Innovative Experiments

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Code: 31948 | Identifier Code: 6G-SANDBOX Open Call | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 28/11/2023 | End submission calls: 29/02/2024

The purpose of the open call is twofold:

• OPTION 1 – New infrastructures and functionalities (extensions): Enlarge and make the 6G-SANDBOX experimental infrastructure ready for advanced experimentation in upcoming project open calls for experimentation.
• OPTION 2 – Innovative experiments: Initiate first funded innovative experiments on the 6G-SANDBOX infrastructure.

NGI Zero Core Fifth Open Call – Moving the internet forward

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Code: 31945 | Identifier Code: 5th open Call | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 01/12/2023 | End submission calls: 01/02/2024

NGI Zero Core, project, co-funded from Horizon Europe, foresees the provision of financial support to third parties, as a means to achieve the objectives of the Next Generation Internet initiative and to contribute to a resilient, trustworthy and sustainably open internet. NGI Zero Core is designed to help reshape the state of play, and to help create an open, trustworthy and reliable internet for all.