Ecosisteme de talente pentru cariere timpurii atractive în cercetare

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Această schemă sprijină consorții care creează ecosisteme de talente, adică rețele integrate în care organizații de cercetare publice și private, inclusiv universități și companii industriale, colaborează pentru a face carierele cercetătorilor mai atractive și sustenabile, cu accent pe cercetătorii la început de drum. Banile acoperă activități de coordonare și suport precum elaborarea de planuri de acțiune, formare, mentoraț și servicii pentru bunăstarea cercetătorilor, dar NU salarii sau mobilitate individuală. Se aplică în consorțiu de cel puțin trei entități juridice independente din state membre sau țări asociate, dintre care două din state membre, iar grantul este oferit sub formă de sumă forfetară de până la 2 milioane de euro pentru proiecte de până la 3 ani.

Grant per proiect

2.000.000 la 2.000.000 EUR

Buget total apel

29.000.000 EUR

Se deschide

08.12.2026

Tip de acțiune

HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions

Eligibilitate România

Organizațiile din România pot aplica

Identificator apel

HORIZON-WIDERA-2027-05-ERA-02

Sursă

Portalul UE pentru finanțări (apeluri tematice)

Expected Outcome:Proposals will deliver on the impact of “Improved research careers and mobility, based on the European framework for research careers, fostering knowledge flows and career interoperability across sectors and countries”[1], contributing to the ERA Structural Policy “Making research careers more attractive and sustainable, and support mobility”. Project results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:Creation of talent ecosystems[2], as integrated networks where research performing public (including higher education institutions) and private organisations, in particular industrial actors and research-intensive businesses, have established close and coordinated cooperation, fostering among others the employability, skills, career development, mobility, career interoperability, and well-being of researchers and other R&I staff;Implementation of organisational changes by participating organisations to mainstream the principles of the European framework for research careers and of the European Charter for Researchers, resulting in researchers benefitting from attractive working and employment conditions and diversified career development opportunities, with spillover effects on other R&I staff;Well-connected talent ecosystems through regular cooperation between different projects established under this topic and other ongoing actions[3];Enhanced talent ecosystems, enabling a substantial number of researchers and other R&I staff to develop attractive careers and attracting international talents and European diaspora scientists.Scope:The topic supports consortia in creating ‘talent ecosystems’, cohesive and interdependent systems, where a balanced composition of both education and training providers and employers of researchers, especially from the non-academic sector, cooperate closely to promote attractive and sustainable careers for researchers, in particular for early-career researchers, tailored to the needs of the research labour market. To facilitate the formation of a balanced consortium, the inclusion of associated partners is encouraged .The consortium is also encouraged to extend the scope of the talent ecosystem by cooperating with additional organisations outside the consortium during the course of the action.Applicants should in their proposal, clearly identify the thematic area they plan to address, choosing from the ones outlined below and specify the precise thematic scope within the selected area:Area 1. Clean Transition: Energy and transportArea 2. HealthArea 3. Biotech, agriculture and bioeconomyArea 4. Digital and AI technologiesArea 5. SpaceResearchers at organisational level and other R&I staff should be trained according to the needs of businesses, industry, and, more generally, to the needs of the labour market, while also ensuring that latest research findings are included in the curricula of early-career researchers. This should help close existing gaps between R&I talents and the labour market, ensuring that businesses and industry benefit from a substantial and highly skilled workforce, especially in emerging sectors with high demand for talent or specific R&I skills.Cooperation should create conditions for interoperable careers for researchers and for continuous and multidirectional talent circulation between the various sectors within the ecosystem.The talent ecosystems and the cooperation among participants are expected to be designed to last beyond the duration of the project and benefit researchers and other R&I staff both within the consortium and beyond. Participating organisations are expected to have received the HR Excellence in Research Award[4] or commit to applying the new Charter for Researchers and commit to its implementation (i.e., start the process towards the Award) within the grant duration, as far as relevant for their operations related to the employment of researchers[5]. This action does not support salaries and mobility of individual researchers or teams of researchers.Activities may include (non-exhaustive list) mapping challenges, developing action plans to bring the organisations in line with the Charter for Researchers, upskilling (including on the basis of ResearchComp and RM Comp), involving the non-academic sector in the design and implementation of training programmes for researchers and other R&I staff, establishing career development and mentoring services, developing services for the well-being of researchers and other R&I staff, creating conditions for interoperable careers between countries and sectors, supporting incoming mobile researchers, networking and relationship-building to connect talent ecosystem partners, and outreach activities to attract international researchers to the ecosystem.Activities should demonstrate how actions will build on, connect to, make use of, promote and, where appropriate, help improve relevant ERA Talent Platform initiatives, including, EURAXESS, RESAVER, ReICO, ResearchComp and RM Comp, and setting out practical measures to ensure complementarity, interoperability, user signposting and coherent communication. This should ensure that activities reinforce rather than duplicate existing European-level support. This also entails structured cooperation with the already existing pilot projects funded under HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-02-03 and this projects that will be funded under this call.Expected project duration is up to 3 years without prejudice to a longer duration if justified.[1] Council Recommendation of 18 December 2023 on a European framework to attract and retain research, innovation and entrepreneurial talents in Europe; includes Charter for Researchers, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/C/2023/1640/oj.[2] A talent ecosystem could for instance consist of a long-lasting cooperation between a cluster of companies in a certain sector and one or more academic institutions, enabling specific skills training of early-career researchers in cooperation with the companies, and facilitating talent circulation.[3] See projects funded under HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-02-03.[4] https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/hrexcellenceaward.[5] The European Charter for Researchers, while being applicable to all organisations employing researchers, is particularly relevant for those organisations which, because of their size, structure, and number of researchers employed, need to have dedicated expertise, capacity, and resources to manage and implement institutional human resources strategies and policies. This is typically linked to those organisations having a human resources department.

General conditions1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layoutdescribed in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.2. Eligible Countriesdescribed in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.3. Other Eligible ConditionsApplications must be submitted by a consortium including participation, as beneficiaries, of at least three independent legal entities: Each established in a different Member State or Associated Country; and two of which are established in a Member State.described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusiondescribed in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholdsTo ensure a balanced portfolio covering different thematic areas, as outlined in the scope, grants will be awarded to proposals not only in order of ranking, but at least also to proposals that are the highest ranked within each thematic area, provided that proposals pass all thresholds.are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processesare described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreementdescribed in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.6. Legal and financial set-up of the grantsEligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027), and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025) [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf]].described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.Specific conditions described in the specific topic of the Work Programme. Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA): Application form templates, the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission SystemStandard application form (HE CSA) Evaluation form templates, will be used with the necessary adaptations Standard evaluation form (HE CSA) GuidanceHE Programme Guide Model Grant Agreements (MGA)Lump Sum MGA Call-specific instructions Detailed budget table (HE LS) Guidance: "Lump sums - what do I need to know?"Additional documents: HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027-1. General IntroductionHE Main Work Programme 2026-2027-11. Widening participation and strengthening the European Research AreaHE Main Work Programme 2026-2027-15. General AnnexesHE Programme GuideHE Framework Programme 2021/695HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509Decision authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe ProgrammeRules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity AssessmentEU Grants AGA, Annotated Model Grant Agreement Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement

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