GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Applications for this action should include a proposed list of experts that will be consulted on the development of the index and be ready to interact with additional experts identified by the EIC and European Commission or other relevant EU bodies including the European Investment Bank and European Investment Fund.

Building on existing efforts to measure diversity within EU companies and consistently with the objectives of the EU’s sustainable finance strategy, this action will support a multidisciplinary consortium to:

• Develop a pilot innovation gender & diversity index based on agreed definitions and indicators that can be applied to startups/ SMEs and to innovation investment actors in the EU;
• Identify relevant sources of reliable and robust data;
• Develop methodologies and conduct data collection in order to fill data gaps;
• Implement and produce a first pilot gender & diversity index using available data from different sources as well as additional data collection as appropriate;
• Provide recommendations for further development and implementation of an innovation gender and diversity index and additional measures needed to improve data availability and benchmarking, such as voluntary reporting standards by start-ups, scale-ups and investment funds;
• Disseminate and promote the results of the project to investors, policy makers and the wider innovation ecosystem.