First Cascade Funding Call Now Open!

This call for Cascade Funding within CoARA Boost aims to enhance institutional change and target pilot and exchange-of-knowledge initiatives. This first call will fund +20 projects facilitating knowledge-exchange, piloting new initiatives within institutions, and enabling lasting institutional change. As such, it encourages and supports research organisations to investigate and test what will efficiently work ‘in real life’.

More specifically, the first call aims to:

Facilitate the exchange, transfer and adaptation of proven good practices and their adoption in research organisations.
Catalyse the set-up or transformation of research assessment practices and tools in line with the commitments of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment.
Support the development and testing of new and innovative research assessment approaches, models and procedures.

As the call is meant to support institutions from across the European Research Area (ERA), eligible applications are limited to legal entities based in the EU Member States and countries associated to the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. The types of organisations eligible for funding are detailed in the call text.

By the end of the programme, it is expected to have a diverse portfolio of projects available that will translate the shared vision outlined in the Agreement into tangible, lasting institutional changes in research assessment practices.

Applications open from 26 April to 26 June 2024, 17:00 CEST.