Through peer learning, co-created tools and policy monitoring, GENDERACTIONplus2027 supports the implementation of inclusive gender equality policy in research and innovation across Europe.
GENDERACTIONplus stands for:
Gender Equality Network to Develop ERA Communities To activate Inclusive policy coordinatiON with Practical Learning for Uptake and Sustainability 2027
Call: HORIZON-WIDERA-2026-06-IBA Policy coordination to support gender equality and inclusiveness in the ERA
Grant agreement No: 101327095
Start date of project: 1 June 2026
Duration: 24 months
Estimated Project Cost: €1,998,941.25
Requested EU Contribution: €1,998,941.25
GENDERACTIONplus2027 aims to advance inclusive gender equality in the European Research Area. It supports national authorities, research and innovation funding organisations and ERA stakeholders in moving
from policy commitments to practical implementation by:
Objectives
GENDERACTIONplus2027 aims to advance inclusive gender equality in the European Research Area. It supports national authorities, research and innovation funding organisations and ERA stakeholders in moving from policy commitments to practical implementation by:
How the project works
The project follows a practical learning cycle: identify needs, exchange experience, co-create, test and refine tools, and feed the lessons back into policy discussions. This approach keeps the project close to real implementation challenges and helps to make the outputs useful for different national and organisational settings.
GENDERACTIONplus2027 works towards a European Research Area where inclusive gender equality is better coordinated, more consistently supported, and backed by the knowledge, tools and evidence needed for implementation in national and research funding contexts.
We aim to reduce the gap between policy ambition and everyday implementation. We do this by creating trusted spaces for exchange, developing practical tools, and producing evidence that can support policy learning and decision-making.
Better policy coordination across Europe
The project strengthens cooperation between national authorities, research and innovation funding organisations and European Research Area stakeholders. Through the Community of Practice, participants can compare approaches, discuss common challenges and identify practical ways to advance inclusive gender equality in their own contexts.
Stronger practical capability
GENDERACTIONplus2027 supports people and organisations responsible for equality in research and innovation policy. It offers peer learning, capability-building activities and how-to resources that can be adapted to different levels of experience, institutional settings and policy environments.
Practical tools for implementation
The project will make practical resources available through a user-centred toolkit. These will include guidance, templates, checklists, training materials and policy tools to support inclusive gender equality, intersectionality and gender mainstreaming in research and innovation policy.
Better evidence for learning and policy improvement
Through monitoring and the ERA Monitoring Data Dashboard, GENDERACTIONplus2027 will provide accessible evidence on how inclusive gender equality policies are being implemented. The aim is to support reflection, identify patterns and gaps, and strengthen policy learning.
More attention to intersectionality
The project supports a more inclusive understanding of gender equality by helping policy actors address intersecting inequalities in research and innovation systems. This includes developing guidance and recommended indicators that can support more targeted and feasible policy action.
Longer-term availability and reuse
Core public project outputs will remain accessible beyond the project time through the website, toolkit and open repositories such as Zenodo. This supports long-term access, reuse and adaptation by national authorities, research and innovation funding organisations, ERA stakeholders and others working to strengthen inclusive gender equality.
Longer-term contribution
In the longer term, GENDERACTIONplus2027 contributes to fairer, more inclusive and more accountable research and innovation systems. By strengthening policy coordination, practical capability, policy monitoring and uptake, the project supports more consistent implementation of inclusive gender equality across the European Research Area.
GENDERACTIONplus2027 is delivered by an experienced consortium with long-standing cooperation and wide-ranging expertise in European gender equality and research policy. It also includes 29 Associated Partners participating primarily through the project’s Community of Practice.
Deliverable reports
Public deliverable reports will be published here as they become available. They document the project’s methods, outputs, findings and lessons learned, and provide a transparent record of project implementation.
No public deliverable reports are available yet. They will be added during the project and shared through the project website, the toolkit where relevant, and the GENDERACTIONplus2027 Zenodo community.
Links with ERA policy and previous work
GENDERACTIONplus2027 builds on the work of GENDERACTION and GENDERACTIONplus and continues supporting gender equality policy coordination in the European Research Area. The project is closely connected to the ERA policy agenda on inclusive gender equality, especially the structural policy on “Strengthening inclusive gender equality in the ERA, notably with an intersectional approach”, and works closely with the ERA Forum Sub-group on Inclusive Gender Equality.
