GENDER-NET Plus ERA-Net Cofund: Promoting gender equality in H2020 and the ERA
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with Unit
Memorial Deadline: Friday 6th, July 2018
External Deadline: Monday 16th, July 2018
Description
Through the leadership of the CIHR Personalized Health Initiative (PH), the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health is a member of GENDER-NET Plus – an international consortium of sixteen research funders in thirteen countries. These 16 partners from 13 countries have joined forces to launch a Joint Call for proposals, which will support research that aims to address urgent societal challenges through a sex and gender lens. GENDER-NET Plus members have chosen to take the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a point of departure for this Joint Call.
Consideration of sex and gender is fundamental to good health and wellbeing to ensure healthy lives at all ages. An individual’s sex (biological differences between males and females) as well as gender (socially-constructed roles, behaviours, expressions and identities) influence people’s susceptibility to different health conditions and diseases and affect their enjoyment of good mental and physical health and wellbeing. These factors also have a bearing on people’s access to and uptake of health services and on the health outcomes they experience throughout the life-course.
The GENDER-NET Plus is a continuation of the GENDER-NET ERA-NET research policy initiative 2, which was active from 2013 to 2016, addressing challenges facing European research institutions in achieving gender equality in research and innovation. All parts of the GENDER-NET Plus initiative will prioritize new, innovative, comparative, critical and interdisciplinary approaches and methods in order to produce new knowledge, meet the targets and comply with the aims of the initiative.
CIHR is pleased to announce that it will make funding available to support Canadian researchers through transnational Collaborative Research Projects (CRP) to investigate sex and gender effects and dimensions in health challenges.
For more information, please consult the Gender-Net Plus website.
For additional details, please visit CIHR’s website.