The EU Award for Gender Equality Champions is open for applications

We would like to draw your attention to the EU Award for Gender Equality Champions prize, which is open for applications.

This prize is open to universities, higher education institutions, and other research performing organisations (public or private), established in an EU Member State or a Third Country associated to Horizon Europe, and aims to:

• Complement and boost the requirement for higher education and research organisations applying to Horizon Europe to have in place a Gender Equality Plan (GEP) as an eligibility criterion
• Be an incentive to advance inclusive gender equality plans and policies in the framework of the new European Research Area (ERA) policy agenda
• Act as an enabler for the transformation agenda for universities set in the new ERA, and in line with the new European Strategy for Universities

This prize is also intended to create a community of champions inspiring other academic and research organisations to become gender equality champions themselves, and to raise public awareness of the importance of addressing gender equality in academic and research organisations through institutional change.

Categories

Applicants can apply to one of the following categories:

1. 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.
2. Newcomer Gender Equality Champions: Organisations that have recently finalised the implementation of their first GEP and can demonstrate the most progress achieved through its implementation.
3. Inclusive Gender Equality Champions: Organisations that have developed the most innovative inclusive GEP, i.e., a GEP addressing intersections between gender and at least two other social categories, such as racial or ethnic origin, social origin, sexual orientation and gender identity (LGBTIQ) or disability – and can demonstrate concrete results obtained through its implementation.

There will be one winner in the prize category “Sustainable Gender Equality Champions”, two winners in the prize category “Newcomer Gender Equality Champions”, and one winner in the prize category “Inclusive Gender Equality Champions”. Each winner will receive a trophy and a €100 000 prize.