Report of the Expert Group on “the Interim Evaluation of Gender Equality as a crosscutting issue in Horizon 2020”. Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. European Commission. September 2017.
Chairperson: Suzanne de Cheveigné
Rapporteur: Bente Knoll
Members of the expert group: Maria Bustelo, Eivind Engebretsen and Ulf Sandström
This report is a long version of the one that was submitted by the “Commission Expert Group on the interim evaluation of Gender equality as a crosscutting issue in Horizon 2020” to contribute to the overall interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 as set in Article 32 of the Horizon 2020 Framework Regulation. This report aims to identify possible improvements in the implementation of gender equality as a crosscutting issue in Horizon 2020. It assists the European Commission in assessing gender equality, and – in particular – the gender dimension in research and innovation content, as a crosscutting issue at the various stages of the implementation of Horizon 2020 from the Work Programme definition to the funded projects. It aims to provide a solid evidence base for designing future activities and initiatives, in particular the preparation of the exante impact assessment of the next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.
Table of Contents
1. OVERVIEW
1.1. Context of the evaluation and background information
2. RATIONALE
2.1. Relevance
2.2. Internal and external coherence
3. IMPLEMENTATION
3.1. Implementation activities in an overview
4. EFFECTIVENESS
4.1. General
4.2. Unreliable indicators
4.3. Objective 1: Gender balance in research teams at all levels
4.4. Objective 2: Gender balance in decision making
4.5. Objective 3: Integrating the gender dimension in the content of R&I
5. EFFICIENCY
6. EU-ADDED VALUE
7. CONCLUSION
7.1. Main achievements
7.2. Main shortcomings
8. RECOMMENDATIONS
8.1. General
8.2. Objective 1: Gender balance in research teams at all levels
8.3. Objective 2: Gender balance in decision making
8.4. Objective 3: Integrating the gender dimension in the content of R&I
9. ANNEXE 1: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH USED FOR ANALYSIS AND PROCEDURE
9.1. Baseline
9.2. Quantitative analysis
9.3. Qualitative analysis
10. ANNEXE 2: CASE STUDIES (SHORT VERSION)
11. ANNEXE 3: TOPIC FORMULATION
12. ANNEXE 4: EVIDENCE FROM THE FP7 EX-POST EVALUATION
13. ANNEXE 5: GENDER COMMENTS IN 111 ESRS
13.1. Criterion 1 (Excellence)
13.2. Criterion 2 (Impact)
13.3. Criterion 3 (Quality and efficiency of the implementation)
14. ANNEXE 6: TOPICS WHERE GENDER COMMENTS APPEAR IN THE ESRS
15. ANNEXE 7: MEMBERS OF THE EXPERT GROUP
16. ANNEXE 8: LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS