Inclusive Gender Equality Champions

Specific Challenge:

The “EU Award for Gender Equality Champions” is a recognition prize scheme designed as a booster and a complement to the Gender Equality Plans (GEP) eligibility criterion in Horizon Europe[1], and as a tool for advancing inclusive GEPs and policies within the framework of the ERA Policy Agenda.

Expected Outcomes:

• Recognition of organisations with the most significant impact resulting from the implementation of their GEP, serving as role models for others;
• Strengthened gender equality and inclusiveness in the European Research Area.

The Prize will be awarded to four organisations, and contestants can apply to one of the following three prize categories:

• Sustainable Gender Equality Champions: Organisations that can demonstrate a significant and sustained record of activity and a high level of achievement through the implementation of their GEP(s);
• Newcomer Gender Equality Champions: Organisations without a sustained record of activity in gender equality that have recently completed the implementation of their first GEP and can demonstrate the most progress achieved through its implementation;
• Inclusive Gender Equality Champions: Organisations that have developed the most innovative inclusive GEP – namely a GEP addressing intersectionality, meaning links between gender and at least two other social categories, including for example racial or ethnic origin, social origin, sexual orientation and gender identity (LGBTIQ) or disability – and can demonstrate concrete results obtained through its implementation.

Trimmed here, the full scope, expected outcomes and award criteria are on the official topic page ↗.