The Widening Participation and Structural Funds working group is coordinated by The Guild office. It includes representatives from member universities with extensive experience with Widening instruments.
Group activities include:
- providing critical input on existing Widening instruments aiming to bridge the R&I divide in Europe;
- developing new ideas for enhancing excellence and improving success rates in framework programmes;
- considering how actions designed for lower-performing regions could be mainstreamed into FP9, without compromising requirements to excellence;
- improving the use of structural funds for research and innovation;
- engaging with wider structural barriers for enhancing excellence.
Contact info
Group coordinators: Head of Higher Education Policy Ivana Didak.
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