Gender Equality & COVID-19
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) published a webpage to raise awareness about some of the gendered impacts that Covid-19 is having on our society. The information draws on EIGE’s existing research and gender statistics to highlight the different realities that women and men could be facing in light of this pandemic.
H2020 projects and COVID-19: FAQ
The EC published in the FAQs section of the Funding & Tenders Opportunities Portal two new articles on the interpretation of the rules of the Grant Agreement of H2020 projects during the COVID-19 crisis:
• Contribution on salaries of researchers for the time they could not work due to the COVID-19 confinement measures;
• How may beneficiaries address potential delays in finalising the action tasks at the last reporting period in order for the consortium to be able to submit the final report and to be paid?
IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY FOR HORIZON EUROPE – ver 1.0
As part of the preparation for the new Framework Programme Horizon Europe, the EC has published on April 30, 2020 the first version of the Implementation Strategy for Horizon Europe. Horizon Europe’s Implementation Strategy provides the framework for carefully designed rules and efficient processes across the entire programme and project life cycle. It outlines how the programme will be managed in practice to achieve its ambitious objectives, the desired impact of the programme and the implementation of the strategy. EC press release here.
Publication of ESFRI White Paper 2020
The strategy paper “MAKING SCIENCE HAPPEN – A new ambition for Research Infrastructures in the European Research Area” was elaborated and adopted by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). This document represents the outcomes of the reflection process over the last 15 months of ESFRI, working on its vision of an integrated ecosystem of research infrastructures, enabling the generation of scientific knowledge underpinning the capacity to respond to major societal challenges of the European Research Area (ERA).