Introduction to FP7, principles of gender mainstreaming in FP7 and projects in FP6

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Introduction to FP7,principles of gender
mainstreaming in FP7 and projects in FP6

• NEWS Workshop, Brussels 11 October 2007
  Karen SlavinEuropean CommissionDG
  RTDkaren.slavin_at_ec.europa.eu

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Overview FP7Specific Programmes
Cooperation Collaborative research
Ideas Frontier Research
People Human Potential
Capacities Research Capacity

JRC (non-nuclear)
JRC (nuclear)
Euratom
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Budget for FP7

• EC Programme 50 521 million Euro (current prices)
• Cooperation 32 413 million Euro
• Ideas 7 510 million Euro
• People 4 750 million Euro
• Capacities 4 097 million Euro
• JRC EC Programme 1 751 million Euro
• Euratom Programme 2 751 million Euro (current
  prices 2007-11)
• Fusion Energy Research 1 947 million Euro
• Nuclear Fission and Radiation Protection 287
  million Euro
• JRC Nuclear Research Activities 517 million Euro
• Annual budget 40 increase compared to FP6 on
  average75 real terms increase between 2007 to
  2013

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Overview FP7 Context and key ideas I

• Emphasis on competitiveness
• (Revised) Lisbon strategy
• Barcelona target 3 of GDP for RD
• Sustainable development objectives
• Advance with the European Research Area
• Enlarged EU
• Longer duration (seven years up to 2013)
• Substantial increase in the budget proposed
  total 50 521 million EUR (excl. EURATOM) still
  far less than the Commission proposals
• New funding modalities

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Overview FP7 Context and key ideas II

• Continuity - evolution of successful FP6
  elements
• Themes for collaborative research
• Marie Curie actions
• Major new approaches
• ERC (European Research Council)
• Coordination of national research programmes
  (ERA NET and ERA-NET PLUS)
• Strategic approach to research infrastructures
• Regions of Knowledge
• Joint Technology Initiatives

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FP7 Funding Schemes

• Collaborative Projects
• Networks of Excellence
• Coordination and Support Actions
• Support for Frontier Research (ERC)
• Research for the Benefit of Specific Groups
• Support for Training and Career Development of
  Researchers (Marie Curie)
• Combinations e.g. CP and CSA

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Other relevant areas in FP7CAPACITIES SP -
Science in Society
5. Science in Society
Strengthening and improving the European science
system
Broader engagement political and societal issues
(inc. ethical issues)
Science and technology and their place in society
Gender research and the role of women in research
Science education curiosity and the
participation of young people
Policy for the role and engagement of universities
Improved communication
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Principles of gender mainstreaming in FP7

• Gender dimension of research content will be
  addressed in the work programmes
• Evaluation 40 objective
• Negotiation raising awareness, informing and
  checking
• Reporting SiS Reporting questionnaire including
  Workforce statistics and gender equality
  questions

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Evaluation

• Evaluation of gender aspects, if specified in
  call/ work programme
• - ST Quality
• Concept, objective, work-plan
• Implementation
• Individual participants and consortium as a whole
• Allocation of resources
• Impact
• Contribution to expected impacts listed in work
  programme
• Plans for dissemination/exploitation

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Evaluation

• Selection of experts
• The European Communities pursue an equal
  opportunities policy and aim in particular at
  achieving in the medium term at least 40 of
  members of each sex in each expert group and
  committee (2000/407/EC Commission Decision of 19
  June 2000 relating to gender balance within the
  committees and expert groups established by it)
• APPLY TO BE AN EVALUATOR! (details at end of
  presentation!)

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Negotiation

• For (large) CP and NoE
• Special Gender Actions are possible and can be
  re-imbursed as part of the project (see section
  on gender in proposal template). This can
  include
• Establishment of networks, management courses,
  training or mentoring activities, measures to
  facilitate work/life balance, outreach activities
  (schools, universities) and collaboration with
  industries
• The Science in Society programme will establish a
  help desk where projects can get advice on the
  type of activities that could be included

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FP456 Gender Distribution Overview
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Selection of FP6 funded projects that could be of
interest to NEWS

• QUING - Quality in Gender Equality Policies
• FEMCIT Gendered citizenship in Multicultural
  Europe
• FEMAGE - Needs for Female Immigrants and their
  Integration in Ageing Societies

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QUING

• The European Union values diversity and
  inclusion yet at the level of its member states,
  many examples of exclusion and polarization can
  be found, whether the focus is on gender,
  ethnicity, religion or sexuality. The research
  project Quality in Gender Equality Policies
  (QUING) tackles these issues to provide the
  knowledge for inclusive gender equality
  policies. QUING is funded within the European
  Commissions 6th Framework Program and will last
  for 54 months (2006-2011).
• www.quing.eu

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FEMAGE

• The overreaching objectives are to generate
  knowledge about obstacles and needs for
  opportunity enhancement for economic and social
  integration and emancipation of women immigrants
  in a life-course perspective, identify
  requirements for integrative interaction between
  immigrants and national population in the host
  country, build this knowledge into a platform for
  the policy deliberations among key policy
  stakeholders, and elaborate recommendations on
  needs for immigrants and support policies and
  services for their integration in view of
  population ageing in Europe.
• http//www.bib-demographie.de/femage/index.html

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FEMCIT

• FEMCIT sees citizenship as rights and
  responsibilities, routes to political access,
  economic participation as well as feelings and
  practices of social and cultural belonging. The
  following aspects of citizenship are addressed in
  the project
• Political citizenship (democratic
  participation/representation)
• Social citizenship (family policy, child care)
• Economic citizenship (work, access to and
  equality in employment)
• Ethnic and religious citizenship
  (minority/majority feminism racism, gender
  equality and religion)
• Bodily and sexual citizenship (control over the
  body (reproductive rights) and sexuality (sexual
  violence)
• Intimate citizenship (new family formations and
  transformations of intimate life)

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Further information

• FP7 in general
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7
• FP7 Calls
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/calls/
• Science in Society
• http//ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/
  
• SSH
• http//ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/
  

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Evaluators needed!

• Please (re)-register at
• https//cordis.europa.eu/emmfp7/index.cfm?fuseacti
  onwel.welcome

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• Go raibh maith agaibh!
• Thank you for your attention!