Inclusive Gender Equality Champions
EU Award for Gender Equality Champions 2026 · HORIZON-RPr · Can apply alone
What this call funds
This is a recognition prize, not a project grant. It rewards organisations that have made real progress on gender equality through their Gender Equality Plans, with four prizes across three categories: sustained impact, newcomer progress, and innovative inclusiveness (linking gender to other social dimensions like ethnicity, disability, or LGBTIQ status). Winners get EU recognition as role models to inspire wider adoption of inclusive equality policies.
gender equality · civil society democracy · social innovation
Who wins this
Public bodies, research organisations, universities, or private/non-profit entities in Europe with an established or recently completed Gender Equality Plan showing measurable impact or innovative inclusiveness.
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The call in detail
- Funding model
- HORIZON-PR
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Recognition Prize
- Partners
- Not required. You can apply on your own.
- Eligible applicants
- private entity, public body, non-profit organisation, for-profit organisation, research organisation, higher education establishment
- Also required
- Applicants must be located in a Member State, Associated Country, or EU-accession candidate country, and must have a current Gender Equality Plan complying with Horizon Europe minimum requirements; entities that already received an EU or Euratom prize for the same activities are ineligible for a second prize.
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, IL, TR, UA, RS, MK, ME, AL, BA, XK, GE, AM, MD, TN, NZ
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout Described in the Rules of Contest for this prize. Proposal page limits and layout: described in the Rules of Contest for this prize and in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible countries Described in the Rules of Contest for this prize. 3. Other Eligibility Conditions Described in the Rules of Contest for this prize. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion Described in the Rules of Contest for this prize. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds Described in the Rules of Contest for this prize. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes Described in the Rules of Contest for this prize. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement Described in the Rules of Contest for this prize. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants Described in the Rules of Contest for this prize. Specific conditions Described in the Rules of Contest for this prize.
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