WIDERA Newsletter November 2022

Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you are all keeping well.

For the first time in almost three years, the Horizon Europe National Support Network team met face to face in Athlone, Co. Westmeath for our annual gathering of National Contact Points (NCPs), National Delegates and stakeholders. The the two-day event included interactive sessions and discussion with representatives from third level research offices, as well as the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. It was great to meet up with everyone.

The WIDERA work programme is scheduled to be published later this month and the European Commission Info Day is planned to take place on 12th December 2022, please check the Commissions website for updates.

The work programme has calls in areas like developing new approaches to the macroeconomic modelling of R&I, research ethics in environmental and climate technologies and laying the groundwork towards Europe-wide citizen science campaigns, if there is anyone in your networks that maybe interested in these and many other topics, please encourage them to take a look at the ERA part of "Widening Participation and strengthening the European Research Area" part of the HE work programme.

Many thanks & kind regards

Gráinne

Lump Sum Grants

Webinar's organised by the European Commission that maybe of interest to you and your networks

Science Business has advised that up to 25% of big horizon call starting next year could be awarded lump sum grants Lump sum grants to be awarded in up to 25% of big Horizon calls starting next year | Science|Business (sciencebusiness.net)

Please find below a link to a detailed guidance on managing lump sum projects in the form of a PDF document: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/common/guidance/how-to-manage-your-lump-sum-grants_en.pdf. Further useful guidance, including on the reporting process for lump sum projects (IT How To) is available here online.

General Information

Please find below general information that may be of interest to you or your networks

1) Science Business now publishing online articles dedicated to the Widening part of the problem. please see the link below.d a online The Widening | Science|Business (sciencebusiness.net)

2) New webinar from the European Commission -
Title: Info session on Horizon Results Booster – steering research towards a strong societal impact

Date: 17 November 2022, from 10:00am to 12:30am (CET, Brussels time)

Event website: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/docs/h2020-funding-guide/other/event221117.htm (no need to register)

This webinar is designed for grant coordinators, project participants and other stakeholders, so please forward this invitation to the relevant people inside your organisations and networks.

3) Please find below a link to a recently published report titled " Approaches to inclusive gender equality in research and innovation (R&I)" why maybe to of inters to you and your network
Approaches to inclusive gender equality in research and innovation (R&I) - Publications Office of the EU (europa.eu)

4) Please find here the link to the National Support Network with full details of all the NCPs and their contact details https://horizoneurope.ie/