The Commission has announced the three winners of the 2023 Gender Equality Champions Award: Universitat Rovira i Virgili from Spain, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) from France, as well as the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest from Ireland. Each winner will receive a prize of EUR 100 000.
Iliana Ivanova, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, said: ‘I warmly congratulate the winners of the Horizon Europe Gender Equality Champions Award. Their remarkable achievements in creating more gender-equal working environments are a source of inspiration for organisations across the European Research Area. I look forward to seeing how our new champions will work together to reinforce the League of Champions launched last year with the first edition of this award.
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The EU Gender Equality Champions Award, an annual recognition launched in 2022, is the European Commission’s initiative to recognise and celebrate excellent results achieved by European academic and research organisations through the implementation of Gender Equality Plans. It aims to complement and boost the eligibility criteria of the Gender Equality Plan, and to be an incentive to promote inclusive gender equality plans and policies in the framework of the new European Research Area (ERA).
More information: European Commission
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