We could once again beat the average proposal and almost two thirds of “our” ETN proposals were successful and were invited to grant preparation.

We have created the ETN Starting Guide - an infographic on how to get your ESR on the way.

Now that we’ve read about what it takes to find ESRs and how to get them signed up it’s time for the next step: The starting phase. A few things we’re going to mention might seem arbitrary, for instance collecting contact details. However, it’s the small things that get easily forgotten during the lifetime of a multi-year project, but it’s often the details that make the difference.

After giving you a good overview of the individual subjects in previous articles we are now continuing with our Starting Guide series to offer you some more concrete help with your projects. In this three-part-series we will be giving you tips on how to manage your projects in regard to the ESRs, starting with the recruitment process.

The definition of an ESR is rather short: “ESRs shall, at the time of recruitment by the host organisation, be in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers and have not been awarded a doctoral degree.”

In this article we’ll be looking at what an MSCA is and go through the different types of MSCAs.

Internally we are aware of what it takes to uphold the certification and how it influences our daily work life, but because a large number of our clients and partners are either scientists or researchers, we often feel that the benefits they receive by working with a certified company aren’t perceived.

Another year brings another broken record when it comes to MSCA ITN submissions: There were a total of 1,435 ETN proposals submitted to the H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017 call on the 10th January 2017, which marks a record high.

The training accelopment offers is backed by 20 years of experience in proposal writing and project management in FP7, Horizon 2020 and other funding programmes.

Today we would like to invite you to take a look behind the scenes and talk about the people who eventually will evaluate (or have evaluated) your proposal.

Many minor changes and a few worth your attention.

We’ve written extensively about the Eurostars programme in the past and to anyone interested in the subject there’s an interesting event coming up on 12th October. It will take place at the Amsterdam Arena in Amsterdam and is organised by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, together with the EUREKA Secretariat and Enterprise Europe Network. The focus of this event will be the Eurostars programme.

There are four upcoming Health call deadlines we are focusing on in this infographic on Horizon 2020 Health calls.

There have been some changes made to the Horizon 2020 Model Grant Agreement (MGA).

Dr Jeanette Müller will be attending the Factories of the Future Conference 2016.

After the success of several workshops on EU proposal writing at renowned Irish and UK universities and based on the positive experience from the company days (firmensprechtage in German) it is long overdue that accelopment officially defines its tried and tested concept of individualised funding advice to scientists at universities across Europe. We are therefore excited to introduce one-two-grant.

ITN 2016 results are out, with good news for accelopment.

There are only a couple of weeks left, until the latest accelopment supported European Training Network (ETN) PEARRL will begin!

Find out what it takes for your Eurostars proposal to be successful.

As expected, the number of ITN submissions has increased, although the increase was not as pronounced as anticipated.

accelopment has successfully supported the preparation of the H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Training Network EXCILIGHT.

We are pleased to announce, that accelopment AG has been successfully re-certified by the Swiss Association for Quality and Management Systems (SQS).

Update: With the workshop now over, we are happy to announce that it has succeeded our expectations. The presentation was fully booked well before the actual day.

There are more updates from the project! See the Media & Press site to read articles about Robo-Mate and watch a feature on a TV program.

As part of its dissemination activities in the TRAIN-ASAP ITN project, accelopment supports the dissemination and communication of ICOHAR 2015 - a key conference on Antimicrobial Resistance.

The short animated EAGLE video, created by accelopment, gives an entertaining introduction to the FP7 project EAGLE.

High interest in consultations with Jeanette Mueller of the participants at the Dairycare conference in Cordoba, 3- 4 March 2015. 

The number of submitted ITN proposals for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) call 2015 increased by 35% compared to 2014.

Have you already applied for a Horizon 2020 ITN call? Read our list of 8 changes that you need to take into account if you write a proposal for the current call (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015).

Are you interested in attractive funding opportunitites for SMEs? Find out more at the EUREKA Innovation Event in Basel.

accelopment successfully supported the preparation of a Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network, called ClickGene

Dr Jeanette Müller to hold a two-day workshop ‘EU Projects: From Proposal Writing to Project Management’ at the University College Cork 22/23 August.

accelopment has designed and developed an interactive infographic for the Supporting LIFE project.

The Swiss Federal Council has published interim measures for the role of Switzerland within the research framework Horizon 2020.

accelopment successfully supported the preparation of a COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action called NEOH – “Network for Evaluation of One Health”.

Our new project dissemination website is now online!
The new page provides a better overview of the dissemination tasks completed by accelopment during current and past projects. These include Factsheets, Websites, Newsletters, Press Articles, Videos and Social Media. The new design shows the results of these activities at one glance. By clicking on the categories on the right, the overview can be sorted according to interests, eg. so that only the factsheets are displayed. Click here to see the new page.

EU Research is specialised in editing, writing and distributing articles on scientific EU-funded projects.

The S-HELP kick-off meeting took place in Cork, Ireland, from 6-7 February 2014.

The King Hussein Cancer Center in Jordan holds an international conference to announce the inauguration of the first ISO-compliant BioBank.

The REFINE Mid-Term Review Meeting took place in St. Gallen (Switzerland) from 11-13 December 2013.

Many calls for proposals in all three pillars of Horizon 2020 were published on 11 December 2013.

More than 45 researchers at CIDETEC have been prepared for the upcoming calls for proposals in NMP and other Horizon 2020 LEIT programmes.

The first Information Days for Horizon 2020 have been announced.

accelopment continues to provide its services to members of this Swiss manufacturing network.