Reforming and Enhancing the European R&I System
Similar to the free movement of goods and services, the European Commission wants to expand the European Research area in which researchers and innovators can move around in the EU without encountering legal, technological or physical borders. The primary objective is thus to stimulate the mobility of people active in R&I and diffuse the available knowledge all over Europe.
Your NCP contact for this programme
Margot Beereboom
margot.beereboom@fwo.be
+32 2 550 15 76
About this programme
During the new programme period, the European Research Area (ERA) will support a new phase in the development of the ERA and synergies with the European Higher Education Area, which may include a stronger focus on supporting the challenges identified in Pillar II, including missions and partnerships, to ensure that the strategic investments made there deliver maximum impact.
Opening the European Research Area to future challenges requires developing synergies with the European Higher Education Area in a complex landscape of universities and research organisations with a view to underpinning open science, innovative entrepreneurial practices, life-long-learning and upskilling talent and breaking down disciplinary and inter-sectoral barriers to match emerging business and societal needs.
Impacts will include better alignment of national reforms and increased programme level collaboration across Member States and Associated Countries, and will help increase the impact of both national and European investments in research and innovation. This will also support other research and innovation priorities including Open Science, citizens’ science, gender equality and other forms of diversity, improving international cooperation, ethics and integrity, and scientific input to other EU policies.
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Related links
Related links are easy pointers towards external information. We curate the list, but are not liable for the destinations.
- EREA Open Science in Horizon Europe
- NCP_WIDERA.NET fact sheet ERA call 2024
- Showcase of citizen science by ERC grantees and other EU-funded projects
- Citizen Science and Frontier Research: ERC Annual Event 2022
- NCP_WIDERA.NET factsheet ERA call 2023
- NCP_WIDERA.NET Policy Brief ERA Policy Agenda
- Citizen science in ERC projects
- COM Info Day WIDERA 23-24 Work Programme
- Citizen Science projects - Cordis Results Pack
- History of Changes - Widening participation and strengthening the ERA Work Programme 2021-2022
- EC DG Research & Innovation Open Science
- Citizen science factsheet
- ERA Forum for Transition
- EC DG Research & Innovation ERA
- European Research Executive Agency - HE Reforming and enhancing the European R&I system
- Recorded video and presentations 21.04.2021 - HEU open science, gender, dissemination&exploitation, do not significant harm principle
- EC DG Research and Innovation - Gender equality in R&I
- Gender equality Horizon Europe factsheet
- ERC gender projects - Cordis Results Pack
- European Open Science Cloud
Documents
Documents contain additional information related to this programme, and are similar to related links.
- Report on good practices from European University Alliances Projects (pilot II)
- Report on Research Assessment
- Researchers’ skills: analysis of progress made in projects funded under Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, including the European University Alliances
- Report on COVID-19 impact on gender equality in research and innovation
- Report on approaches to inclusive gender equality in research and innovation
- Study to evaluate the ERA policy framework and ERA monitoring mechanism
- Gender Dimension in Horizon Europe proposals
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STARGATE - Sustainable Aviation
The Stargate project obtained funding under the special Green Deal call of Horizon 2020, more in particular under the topic of “green ports and airports”. It received the maximum score of the evaluators and was selected out of more than 40 projects. Stargate’s purpose is to prove that sustainable aviation is possible and happening. It focuses on the further decarbonization of the aviation industry, the improvement of local environmental quality and the stimulation of the modal split. Together with a consortium of 21 European partners with a diverse and rich expertise (airports, community partners, knowledge institutions, consultants, local governments, …), Brussels Airports takes the lead as lighthouse airport to develop and implement innovative solutions. Results that prove successful can be deployed at the fellow airports (Toulouse, Budapest, Athens). Over the course of the coming five years, the consortium will exchange knowledge to investigate and realize more than 30 concrete projects.
