12 Amendments of Antigoni PAPADOPOULOU related to 2011/0401(COD)
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Horizon 2020 shall ensure the effective promotion of gender equality and the gender dimensionbalance in research and innovation contentprograms, evaluation committees, expert and advisory groups and decision-making bodies by developing targets and taking appropriate actions.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Horizon 2020 shall ensure that the gender dimension is properly considered in research and innovation content at all stages of the process, from priority setting to definition of calls and proposals, evaluation and monitoring of programs and projects, negotiations and agreements.
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall annually monitor the implementation of Horizon 2020, its specific programme and the activities of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. This shall include information on cross-cutting topics such as gender, sustainability and climate change, including information on the amount of climate related expenditure.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – point a – point iii
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – point a – point iii
(iii) the contribution of the European Institute of Innovation and Technologies and the Knowledge and Innovation Communities to the gender targets and to the priority on societal challenges and the specific objective on ‘leadership in enabling and industrial technologies’ of the programme Horizon 2020.
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) Not later than end 2017, and taking into account the ex-post evaluation of the Seventh Framework Programme to be completed by the end of 2015 and the review of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, the Commission shall carry out, with the assistance of independent experts, an interim evaluation of Horizon 2020, its specific programme, including the European Research Council, and the activities of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, on the achievements (at the level of results and progress towards impacts) of the objectives of Horizon 2020 and continued relevance of all the measures, the efficiency and use of resources, the scope for further simplification, and Union added value. That evaluation shall also take into consideration aspects relating to access to funding opportunities for participants in all regions, for SMEs and for promoting gender balance and integrating the gender dimension in research and innovation content. That evaluation shall additionally take into account the contribution of the measures to the Union priorities of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and results on the long- term impact of the predecessor measures.
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 2
2. The performance indicators for the general objectives and for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, as set out in the introduction of Annex I to this Regulation, and for the specific objectives as established in the specific programme, including relevant baselines, shall provide the minimum basis for assessing the extent to which the objectives of Horizon 2020 have been achieved. Gender indicators shall be added as performance indicators, using for example existing tools as She Figures, Statistics and Indicators on Gender Equality in Science.
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 7 – point a
Annex I – paragraph 7 – point a
(a) The European Research Council (ERC) shall provide attractive and flexible funding to enable talented and creative individual researchers and their teams, irrespective of their sex, to pursue the most promising avenues at the frontier of science, on the basis of Union- wide competition.
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 7 – point b
Annex I – paragraph 7 – point b
(b) Future and emerging technologies shall support collaborative research and user- driven, gender-sensitive technology and innovation in order to extend Europe's capacity for advanced and paradigm- changing innovation. It shall foster scientific collaboration across disciplines on radically new, high-risk ideas and accelerate development of the most promising emerging areas of science and technology as well as the Union wide structuring of the corresponding scientific communities.
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 7 – point c
Annex I – paragraph 7 – point c
(c) Marie Curie actions shall provide excellent and innovative research training as well as attractive career and knowledge- exchange opportunities through cross- border and cross-sector mobility of researchers to best prepare them to face current and future societal challenges. Mobility programmes will ensure effective equal opportunities between men and women and include specific measures to remove obstacles to the mobility of female researchers.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 9
Annex I – paragraph 9
The activities are inherently forward- looking, building skills in the long term, focusing on the next generation of science, technology, researchers and innovations and providing support for emerging talent from across the whole of the Union and associated countries, as well as worldwide, with a view to increasing the participation of female research talents. In view of their science-driven nature and largely ‘bottom- up’, investigator-driven funding arrangements, the European scientific community will play a strong role in determining the avenues of research followed under the programme.
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 10 – point a
Annex I – paragraph 10 – point a
(a) Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies shall provide dedicated support for research, development and demonstration on ICT, nanotechnology, advanced materials, biotechnology, advanced manufacturing and processing and space. Proper consideration of user needs and gender dimension shall be taken into account in all these fields. Emphasis will be placed on interactions and convergence across and between the different technologies.
Amendment 90 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 16
Annex I – paragraph 16
Social sciences and humanities shall be an integral part of the activities to address all the challenges. In addition, the underpinning development of these disciplines shall be supported under the specific objective ‘Inclusive, innovative and secure societies’. Likewise, a focus on gender and gender equality will be integrated in all challenges. Support will also focus on providing a strong evidence base for policy making at international, Union, national and regional levels. Given the global nature of many of the challenges, strategic cooperation with third countries shall be an integral part of each challenge. In addition, cross-cutting support for international cooperation shall be provided under the specific objective ‘Inclusive, innovative and secure societies’.