Rising Concern in Europe Over Horizon Research Spending on Gender-Based and Climate Change Initiatives
TOP 10 worst spending in the European research and innovation program “Horizon Europe”
The French delegation of the ECR group of the European Parliament (Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay, Guillaume Peltier, Laurence Trochu) publishes the “Top 10 worst expenses of Horizon Europe”, the “European program for research and innovation”, or 12 billion euros per year, approximately 60€ per European taxpayer:
10.- 4.9 million euros for the “U_Can” project to “support Ukrainian cities towards climate neutrality by relying on the Green Deal”.
9.- 2.5 million euros to “decolonize sharia” by “exploring the impact of European colonialism on Islamic law in the societies of the Middle East and North Africa.”
8.- €257,000 for the HomoClassicus project, which “studies the role of classical antiquity in LGBTQ historiographies in Greece, the United Kingdom, and the United States, analyzing how narratives reinforce racialized identities in the context of transnational migration and current demographic transformations.”
7.- 2.99 million euros for the YOU-Dare project, which “debunks gender arguments in far-right movements” to “reduce their appeal and protect democratic values.”
6.- 2.6 million euros for the gEneSys project which “explores gender and social inequalities in energy transition policies for equitable and inclusive carbon neutrality”.
5.- €187,624 to study “the hymns of the Atharva-Veda,” ritual prayer formulas in the Hindu religion, by carrying out a “pioneering linguistic analysis of gendered sociolinguistic registers, in order to determine whether the gender separation in later manuals reflects or contradicts the original hymns.”
4.- 1.4 million euros for the WOWMA project, which aims to study “racist biases, the role of the white oligarchy and post-colonial history in the construction of tropical tax havens.”
3.- €214,441 for the TRASDEJ research project, which explores “transatlantic alliances between sexual dissidents for environmental justice, connecting the struggles of indigenous sexual dissidents in southern Mexico with spaces of queer struggle in Europe, particularly in Berlin and rural German communities, with postcolonial, intersectional, and non-binary approaches.”
2.- 2.9 million euros for the INTRACOMP project which aims to “promote the values of social inclusion, diversity and cohesion in the arts in the face of the scale of migration to improve intercultural and transcultural competence by questioning Eurocentric approaches.”
1.- €188,590 for the MotoBoom project, which studies “the impact of the spread of motorcycles among the indigenous peoples of the Bolivian Amazon, while anthropological research has often neglected this form of material colonization.”