The Partnership on Social Transformations and Resilience has been identified as part of the new wave of candidate partnerships for launch under the Horizon Europe Strategic Plan 2025 – 2027.
It will aim to create a transformative R&I programme with the social sciences and humanities (SSH) to explore and use the potential to strengthen resilience, fairness, inclusiveness, and social cohesion in the light of changes in climate and environment, technology, demography, and unexpected shocks.
Furthermore, the Partnership will contribute to policy solutions at European, national, and regional level by developing knowledge, tools and innovative solutions to address contemporary social challenges.
It will also provide a multi-disciplinary scientific evidence base for European, national, regional and local policymaking in four impact areas (‘specific objectives’):
- Supporting the modernisation of social protection systems and essential services
- Shaping the future of work
- Fostering education and skills development
- Contributing to a fair transition to climate neutrality.
Planned activities: calls for transnational research projects, training programmes, workshops and events promoting collaboration between funded consortia and a wide range of stakeholders (including policymakers, business, NGOs, social partners and citizens, etc.), reinforcing the link between R&I projects and research infrastructure, promotion of open research and open data and data accessibility, capacity building, including alignment with national agendas and stakeholders groups.
Timeline and process
Q1 2025 – Q1 2026
- Development of the Partnership Strategic and Research Agenda and Roadmap of Activities
Q1 2026
- Expected opening of the call for the Partnership in the EC Cluster 2 Work Programme
Q3 2026
- Deadline for submitting the Partnership proposal
2027
- Preparation of the Grant Agreement & official launch of the Partnership
