The overall goal of NEXUS is to bolster institutional change through the design and implementation of innovative inclusive actions leading to the advancement of GEPs to support the further development of partners’ GEPs in intersectional and intersectoral directions, achieved through processes of mutual learning in a twinning scheme and capacity building (led by SV) to go beyond the minimum GEP requirements as defined in the Horizon Europe eligibility criterion, and to ensure the sustainability of results.