GenderSAFE advances efforts to implement a zero-tolerance approach to gender-based violence in higher education and research in the European Research Area. Its overall objective is to contribute to building safe, inclusive, and respectful research and higher education. This will be realised through building capacities, mutual learning and exchange, setting up instruments to monitor the uptake and content of Research Performing Organisation (RPO) policies and promoting uptake of policies at the level of the national authorities and Research Funding Organisations (RFOs). This overall objective will be achieved through a five-fold strategy comprising: • Increasing robustness of zero-tolerance policies by building a common policy discourse in the EU reflecting state-of-the-art theoretical debates, including attention to power and intersectionality, mobility and precarity, • Facilitating the uptake and ownership of a zero-tolerance approach to gender-based violence policies through mutual learning, exchange, and co-design in a Community of Practice, involving multiple circles of various types of stakeholders, • Building institutional capacities to set up and implement gender-based violence policies through training of responsible staff and officers, • Creating a knowledge base on the uptake and contents of zero-tolerance policies at RPOs in the EU through a data collection and monitoring system, • Raising awareness and creating uptake through carefully designed communication, dissemination, and advocacy activities.

"The relationship between technology and society changes; it is becoming a widely recognized view that future technology policies including energy policies have to be not only technically, but also socially acceptable. While it is uncertain what this shift means for the transformation of political decision-making about energy, the implications for the scientific ethos are obvious. It seems to be no longer tenable to view the research as accomplished in the seclusion of laboratories and detached from the impact of energy technologies on social systems. If science is to assist political reason convincingly, then competences have to be built, which allow conceiving the technical and the social as two interlinked phenomena.The main goal of TEACHENER project was to foster transdisciplinary education and build a bridge between Social Sciences and Humanities on the one hand and teaching about energy at technical higher education institutions on the other. To accomplish this goal, project partners 1) mapped the demand for SSH approaches at technical higher education institutions (HEIs) in project countries, 2) designed the TEACHENER EDUKIT as a complex and flexible set of Teaching Modules covering various topics associated with social aspects of energy, 3) tested Teaching Modules at partner technical HEIs and during two Student Winter Schools.The TEACHENER EDUKIT, being a main result of the project, is a complex set of ready-to-use, innovative Teaching Modules covering various topics associated with social aspects of energy for educating Master and PhD students at technical higher education institutions. Innovative educational practices, constituting the EDUKIT, provide the graduates of technical energy studies with interdisciplinary skills, knowledge and competencies in social sciences and humanities, enabling them to better respond to the needs of the labour market related to the shift to knowledge society and a fair energy transition with new or adapted job profiles. The EDUKIT and accompanying e-book ""Integrating Social Sciences and Humanities into Teaching about Energy: the TEACHENER EDUKIT"" encompass the project results. The EDUKIT has been incorporated into teaching curricula at technical institutions participating in the project, either as standalone courses for MSc/PhD students or as parts of existing courses offered at the technical university.The partnership behind the project consisted of 'socio-technical teams'. Each such a team consisted of researchers from one SSH institution and one technical HEI partner:- In Poland it was Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) and Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), - in Spain MERIENCE and Catalan University of Technology (UPC), - in Czech Republic the Institute of Sociology of Czech Academy of Sciences (ISAS) and Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), - in Germany the team consisted of researchers from the department of Urban and Enviromental sociology and Monitoring and Exploration Technologies from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research.The TEACHENER consortium encourages technical university teachers to use TEACHENER EDUKIT, an integrated toolbox consisting of the following eight Teaching Modules, each devoted to a different topic:1.ENERGY AWARENESS2.PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS OF ENERGY DEVELOPMENT3.ENERGY AND THE PUBLIC4.SOCIAL IMPACT OF ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES5.TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT6.SMART METERING. SOCIAL RISK PERCEPTION AND RISK GOVERNANCE7.CONFLICT MANAGEMENT8.DECENTRALIZED ENERGY SYSTEMSOn the dedicated web-platform available under www.teachener.umk.pl, one can download the ready-made Teaching Modules and adapt them to the own requirement of teaching at a technical university"

The goal of the SoGreen project is to enhance the capacities of the four leading social science infrastructures in Europe ESS ERIC, SHARE ERIC, GGP and GUIDE, and generate valuable insights aimed at facilitating the study and evaluation of the social aspects of the green transition for different generations and socioeconomic groups across Europe, using a life-course perspective. SoGreen will contribute to the work programme topic “Next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools and methods and advanced digital solutions” by developing new services, comprising innovative tools, solutions, and questionnaire modules related to the social aspects of the green transition. The unique longitudinal and multi-generational perspective of the infrastructures involved goes beyond the state of the art by integrating new data and novel analytical frameworks to foster interdisciplinary insights on the green transition at national and regional levels, including new services, including geospatial data linkable with survey datasets and new visualisation tools. Central to our approach is the collaborative development of a new tool, the Green Transition Questionnaire Module, to ensure coherence in addressing environmental themes which will then be fielded within the different surveys. Moreover, we will also prepare harmonised aggregates of collected data and their visualization through a joint dissemination platform, enhancing accessibility and promoting consistency in data interpretation across various studies. The Knowledge Mobilisation Lab will be another new and innovative tool to identify, build, and engage a multifaceted network of different audiences and stakeholders. This includes professionals from policy, research, non-profit, and private sectors, thus actively shaping the discourse and informing developments related to the green transition.

This proposal outlines a detailed plan for ensuring the sustainability of one of Europe’s leading social science research infrastructures - the European Social Survey, European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC). As a comparative general social survey the ESS needs to have generous national coverage to provide analytical power and ensure it keeps up with the changing scientific and research infrastructure landscape. Failure in one or more of these areas could damage or even destroy the infrastructure. This grant will substantially reduce the risk by securing the medium-term sustainability of the infrastructure and making it more resilient towards future challenges. The ESS has responded effectively to the ESFRI approach since it became an ERIC in 2013 and receives sizeable financial contributions from its members for core activities. ESS-SUSTAIN-2 aims to build on that support and creates sustainability through a structural strengthening of the ESS and by future proofing the infrastructure. ESS is not seeking another few years Commission funding to keep it afloat, an approach unlikely to yield long-term sustainability (and in any event these costs are now met by ERIC members). Rather it seeks a vital helping hand to help complete the transition of the ESS into a research infrastructure that is financially sound and scientifically equipped for the future. By developing links with the European Values Survey, establishing global partners, engaging with policy makers, harnessing technology to improve efficiency and cost effectiveness and launching the world’s first probability-based online panel, this proposal aims to give the European Social Survey the strongest possible foundation to succeed in the years ahead.