Expected Outcome DESTINATION 4 – A sustainable and green rail system In order to improve the existing sustainability performances of railway systems, new innovative products and services need to be developed, tested and deployed. On the basis of leading-edge technologies to minimize the overall energy and resource consumption and environmental impact of the railway system, […]
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HORIZON EUROPE: European Innovation Procurement Awards
Objective The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the global context and created an opportunity for the EU to redefine and affirm its role as a leader to achieve the necessary transformations ahead. Innovation procurement should play a key role to supporting the European priorities set up in the Green Deal and to securing the European technological […]
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EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for ‘Fit for 55’
Scope This EIC Accelerator Challenge aims at supporting the development and scaling up of technologies and boosting breakthrough innovations that strengthen the green transition. Breakthrough innovations for this Challenge should have the potential to create significant economic, competitiveness and employment benefits for Europe. This Challenge targets ground-breaking innovations in any field of technology that have […]
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HORIZON EUROPE: The impact of inequalities on democracy
Expected Outcome Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Comprehensive evidence base to explain the long-term impact of various inequalities (socio-economic, gender, disability, spatial, ethnic, etc.) on political participation, democratic quality and stability. Development, validation and piloting of strategies, policies and action plans for tackling inequalities while boosting trust and resilience at […]
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HORIZON EUROPE: Exploiting renewable energy for shipping
Expected Outcome Project outputs and results are expected to contribute concretely to the following expected outcomes as marked (“*”) whilst supporting the overall medium and longer term objectives: Renewable energy assistance is commercially viable and deployed at scale in commercial shipping and maritime operations, significantly contributing to making waterborne transport climate neutral. In the medium […]
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HORIZON EUROPE: Centres of Excellence for supporting supercomputing applications for Science and Innovation
Expected Outcome Advancing the transition towards exascale capabilities by developing or scaling up existing parallel codes, resulting into effective applications to solve scientific, industrial or societal challenges and addressing the needs of the user communities. Scope The Centres of Excellence (CoE) address scientific and industrial applications and user communities that run world leading codes or […]
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HORIZON EUROPE: Global governance for a world in transition
Expected Outcome Projects should contribute to the both of following expected outcomes: Support the European Union’s role in leading the transformation and defence of multilateralism by identifying and analysing policy avenues for a more robust, democratic and effective global governance. Develop policy recommendations, institutional frames, toolboxes, narratives and methodologies for supporting action towards transnational democracy. […]
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HORIZON EUROPE: Politics and the impact of online social networks and new media
Expected Outcome Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Understand the changes wrought on democratic processes by new technologies. Produce evidence-based recommendations to address the opportunities and challenges for political behaviour and democratic engagement presented by social platforms and new media. Enhance capacities for digital citizenship. Scope Social media and other internet-based […]
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HORIZON EUROPE: Gender and social, economic and cultural empowerment
Expected Outcome Projects should contribute to both of the following expected outcomes: Achieve a better understanding of gendered power relations across the social and economic spheres, taking into account intersections between gender and other social categories such as ethnicity, social origin, disability and sexual orientation, and the cumulative effects of multiple forms of discrimination and […]
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