This factsheet presents key findings from the EC policy report “Gendered Innovations 2: How inclusive analysis contributes to research and innovation” developed by the Expert Group on Gendered Innovations put in place by the European Commission to provide methodological tools for integrating sex...
The European Commission tables €1 billion under Horizon 2020 to respond to the climate crisis, provide more protection to Europe’s biodiversity and habitats under threat, and accelerate a sustainable recovery....
Can ethnographic case studies and quantitative research help to understand the ways stigmatised or conflictual youngsters engage with social, environmental and political issues, and how they create opportunities for social change? How will the concept of “democratic efficacy” help to counter pop...
Inclusiveness on all levels underpins SwafS. We need science education for all, gender equality in our organisations, ethics and integrity embedded in research, communication we can trust, open science and ultimately place citizens at the core to ensure excellent Research and Innovation to tackl...
This study assesses the impact that the EU Research & Innovation Framework Programmes funding has had on renewable energy technologies over the past twenty years (1995- 2015). Eight renewable energy sectors are assessed: bioenergy, biofuels, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar PV, solar thermal...
Europe is blessed with a rich diversity of flora and fauna, many of which are unique. This natural wealth provides us with clean air and water, productive soils as well as energy and natural resources for economic and social development. Such healthy ecosystems help mitigate the impacts of clima...
The overall objective of the Research Infrastructures part of the 'Capacities' specific programme is to optimise the use and development of the best research infrastructures existing in Europe, and to help to create in all fields of science and technology new research infrastructures of pan-Euro...
The S2R Programme is an integrated set of Research and Innovation (R&I) activities, structured around five asset-specific Innovation Programmes (IPs), covering key structural (technical) and functional (process) subsystems of the rail systems: passenger trains, traffic management systems, infras...
