Regional Action Plan to support the governance of Responsible Research & Innovation in the Southern & Eastern Regional Operational Programme 2014 - 2020
Census 2012). One of SFI’s Agenda 2020 KPI targets is to increase the proportion of female award holders to 25% by 2020. The aim in attaining this target is to facilitate the retention of excellent female researchers within academia.
To this end, SFI will focus on streamlining gender initiatives across all its programmes by providing supporting schemes and measures that can facilitate the retention, re-entry, retraining and career advancement of women in STEM research as follows:
• Advance Award/Industry Fellowships • SFI Maternity/Adoptive Policy
• Flexible eligibility criteria for the Investigators programme under the SFI Investigator Career Advancement (ICA) criteria, whose aim is to support those researchers returning to academic research after a prolonged absence e.g. Statutory adoptive leave and Statutory parental leave • Promotes other Non-SFI gender initiatives i.e. Athena Swan Charter.
SFI will track the participation of women in Research on an Annual basis through the Annual Census, both at an award holder level and as part of the Research team. SFI will track the level of funding in the Environmental Science and Energy space over the period 2014 – 2020 – However it must be stressed only funded proposals in these areas which demonstrate excellent science will be funded.
On review of the governance of SFI’s reporting on the integration of horizontal principles SFI have agreed that going forward from 2019 (2018 as the baseline year) to enhance their reporting to the Managing Authority of the Southern and Eastern Regional Operational Programme 2014-2020 to include: • Outreach Activities to now include Public Engagement Activities; • Number of projects approved through the Discover Programme; • Science education promotional activities and engagement at second level; • Update on any other additional initiatives undertaken that fall within the scope of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).
As a result of the enhanced reporting theManagingAuthoritywill be better able to report and quantify the success of the funding administered through SFI and the benefits of work undertaken to achieve the integration of Horizontal Principles.
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