Science with and for society
Science with and for Society (SwafS) will help build effective cooperation between science and society, to recruit new talent for science and to pair scientific excellence with social awareness and responsibility.
Your NCP contact for this programme
Margot Beereboom
margot.beereboom@fwo.be
+32 2 550 15 76
About this programme
Science with and for Society (SwafS) will help build effective cooperation between science and society, to recruit new talent for science and to pair scientific excellence with social awareness and responsibility.
Science with and for Society will be instrumental in addressing the European societal challenges tackled by Horizon 2020, building capacities and developing innovative ways of connecting science to society. It will make science more attractive (notably to young people), raise the appetite of society for innovation, and open up further research and innovation activities. It allows all societal actors (researchers, citizens, policy makers, business, third sector organisations etc.) to work together during the whole research and innovation process in order to better align both the process and its outcomes with the values, needs and expectations of European society. This approach to research and innovation is termed Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).
The Science with and for Society (SwafS) work programme 2018-2020 shall focus on five calls for proposals in which proposals are invited against specific topics:
- Accelerating and catalysing processes of institutional change
- Stepping up support to Gender Equality in Research & Innovation policy
- Building the territorial dimension of SwafS partnerships
- Exploring and supporting citizen science
- Building the knowledge base for SwafS
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Infosheets
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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.
- Citizen science in ERC projects
- Citizen Science projects - Cordis Results Pack
- Horizon Dashboard statistics on cross-cutting issues in Horizon 2020
- Citizen science factsheet
- EC DG Research and Innovation - Gender equality in R&I
- Swafs in Horizon Europe - Sis.net fact sheet
- EC DG Research and Innovation - EU Prize for Women Innovators
- DG Research and Innovation - EU Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS)
- ERC gender projects - Cordis Results Pack
- Horizon2020 Participant Portal - Swafs
- DG Research and Innovation - Swafs
- Swafs NCP network
- Gender equality Horizon 2020
- Ethics Horizon 2020
- Open Access & Data Management Horizon 2020
- Open Research Europe publishing platform
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
- Evaluation study of the European framework programmes for research and innovation for excellent science - Horizon 2020 : phase 1 final study report
- Gender Dimension in Horizon Europe proposals
- Swafs in Flanders
- Success rate for the EU Green Deal call
- Report Science with and for society in Horizon 2020 - achievements and recommendations for Horizon Europe
- Overview document Horizon 2020 Green Deal - 26.08.2020 update
- Overview document Horizon 2020 Green Deal - 18.08.2020 update
- The European green Deal - presentation by DG RTD - 18-05-2020
- Report Science Education - Achievements in Horizon 2020 and recommendations on the way forward
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