Cross-cutting factors
Please note that proposals must consider cross-cutting factors as required in the work-programme. Find out more: EC programme guide
Cross-cutting factor
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Elements to identify and take into consideration
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Policy context
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Interdisciplinarity
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- Related and more distant disciplines, incl. social sciences and humanities
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Partnerships
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- Consortia links and connections and formalised institutional partnerships
- EU partnerships (co-programmed, institutionalised)
- Synergies with other projects and funding calls
- Other links to influence groups and organisations
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Sustainability
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Gender dimension of research
(see Gendered Innovation 2 guidelines)
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- Gendered materials/samples
- Gendered outcomes and factors intersecting with gender
- Equal opportunities at all levels
- Gender expertise/training
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Open science practices
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- Dissemination and exploitation of results
- Open access
- Data management plan and FAIR principles
- Open source
- Social innovation and citizen science
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Education and training
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- Empowering researchers
- Cross-sectoral opportunities outside academia
- Supervision and institutional capabilities and facilities
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Dissemination of results
(public disclosure of results)
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- Open science practices
- Target audiences (industrial sector, policy makers, scientists, end-users, etc) and channels
- Activities and measures
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Exploitation of results
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- Key exploitable results
- Consortium agreement
- Routes to exploitation
- Intellectual property management and results ownership
- Barriers
- Further research
- Feeding back to policy
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Communication
(telling about your project)
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- Vision
- Strategy
- Main message(s)
- Activities and channels
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Ethics
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- Human rights and safeguarding
- Animal protection and welfare
- Health and safety
- Environmental protection
- Artificial Intelligence
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Standardisation
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- Valorisation of results
- Quality
- Interoperability
- Market acceptance
- EU standardisation strategy (incl. made-in-Europe)
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Security
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- Sensitive or classified information, used or created
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