European Research Area (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01), 18 calls open

Horizon Europe has a new level of ambition - to maximise the impact of EU research and innovation funding for European science, economy and the wider society. It marks a paradigm change in the design of the EU R&I Framework Programmes (FP) from an activity-driven to an impact-driven programme. Coupled to this ambition is the relaunching of the European Research Area (ERA) as described in the recently published Commission Communication entitled A new ERA for Research and Innovation (COM/2020/628 final of 30.09.2020). The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the importance of R&I cooperation to deliver solutions to society's most demanding needs. Delivering Europe's recovery is a priority as are the green and digital twin transitions. To match these challenges, a new level of ambition that links better R&I with the economy, as well as with education and training, is necessary to put the EU's scientific knowledge to work. The new ERA calls for deepening existing priorities and initiatives through new and stronger approaches. The green and digital transitions and the recovery call for cooperation between the Commission and the Member States. They require the setting of new priorities, launching ambitious joint initiatives and developing common approaches between policies.
Under this destination the EU has published 18 calls for proposals that are open for admission:

1. Support for policy makers - Programme level collaboration between national R&I programmes (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-09)
2. Towards a Europe-wide training and networking scheme for research managers (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-20)
3. Implementation of a new macro-economic modelling concept (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-30)
4. Standardisation Booster for fostering exploitation of FP-funded research results (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-32)
5. R&I intensive IP management: Scenarios for the future (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-33)
6. Modelling and quantifying the impacts of open science practice (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-40)
7. Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-41)
8. Capacity-building for institutional open access publishing across Europe (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-43)
9. Societal trust in science, research and innovation (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-44)
10. Support to changes in the assessment of research and researchers to reward the practice of open science (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-45)
11. Protection of Higher Education Institutions and research organisations against conventional and non-conventional threats (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-50)
12. A capacity-building and brokering network to make citizen science an integral part of the European Research Area (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-60)
13. Supporting and giving recognition to citizen science in the European Research Area (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-61)
14. Developing a STE(A)M roadmap for Science Education in Horizon Europe (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-70)
15. Centre of excellence on inclusive gender equality in Research & Innovation (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-80)
16. Policy coordination to advance the implementation of the ERA gender equality and inclusiveness objectives within Member States (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-81)
17. The challenges of research ethics and integrity in response to crisis: the coronavirus pandemic and beyond (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-90)
18. Ensuring reliability and trust in quality of Research Ethics expertise in the context of new/emerging technologies (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-91)

Further Information:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-search;callCode=HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01;freeTextSearchKeyword=;matchWholeText=true;typeCodes=1;statusCodes=31094501,31094502,31094503;programmePeriod=null;programCcm2Id=null;programDivisionCode=null;focusAreaCode=null;destination=null;mission=null;geographicalZonesCode=null;programmeDivisionProspect=null;startDateLte=null;startDateGte=null;crossCuttingPriorityCode=null;cpvCode=null;performanceOfDelivery=null;sortQuery=title;orderBy=asc;onlyTenders=false;topicListKey=callTopicSearchTableState