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Report Fostering gender equality – Key figures from Horizon Europe (2025)

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Programmes Enhancing EU R&I

This monitoring report presents an overview of gender equality in EU R&I programmes, particularly in Horizon Europe. It focuses both on main indicators of equality within the programme – such as gender balance of research teams, leading positions, expert evaluations and expert groups – and then on how concretely the programme addresses the issue of gender equality in R&I, such as through requesting adoption of Gender Equality Plans, promoting gender mainstreaming in research, and addressing gender gaps in innovative entrepreneurship. (from the back cover)

1. Introduction (p.3)
2. Key indicators: women participation across the Framework Programmes (p. 8)
3. Project coordinators (p. 9)
4. Project researchers (p. 10)
5. Empowering women innovators (p. 14)
6. Gender equality plans (GEPs) as eligibility criterion (p. 15)
7. Integration of the gender dimension in R&I activities in Horizon Europe (p. 18)
8. Gender equality in European Partnerships (p. 22)

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Luciad - Geospatial software for mission-critical operations

Founded in 1999, Luciad serves clients in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Though it recently was acquired by Hexagon Geospatial, they kept an agile SME mindset. Thousands of end users work directly with Luciad’s geospatial applications, and major systems integrators (think Airbus Defense and Space, Lufthansa Systems, NATO, Thales…) incorporate its software in their own products.

NCP Flanders went to Leuven to interview Frederic Houbie, the Research Projects Manager at Luciad, about how he sees Horizon 2020. Luciad is a partner in the MARISA project, which is a collaborative RIA project submitted to an ICT call topic