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There is €218 million funding available for Society across 25 call topics.

There is still a total of €555 million funding available for Food Calls across 44 topics in 2020.

Cochlear Ltd., the largest global manufacturer of hearing implants which has also been named one of the world’s most innovative companies by Forbes in the past, has been a part of many research projects. They have many academic collaborators from current and past projects, experience in EU funding schemes, including the AAL programme, European Training Networks (ETNs) and the FET Open instrument.

The SME Instrument Phase 2, now called EIC Accelerator is an attractive funding programme for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Managing your project can be challenging and we are happy to support you with our new grant finance support service (gfs).

For 2020, there is still a total of €403 million funding available for Transport across 27 call topics.

For the past twelve years the European Commission has been supporting thousands of young researchers for doctoral training across Europe. Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), to use these researchers’ official description, are being trained through Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Innovative Training Networks (ITNs), a longstanding funding scheme of the Horizon 2020 programme. ITNs are a collaboration, also known as training networks, between academic and non-academic (often referred to as simply industry) institutions.

In our previous blog, we talked about what to expect from an ITN check-meeting and what has changed from the former mid-term review meeting. In this blog we now share some experiences from recent check-meetings we have participated in.

For Innovative Training Networks (ITNs), the Project Officer who manages the project on behalf of the European Commission and the Research Executive Agency (REA), has to review your project in a so called check-meeting in order to assess its progress. Learn what you can expect from this meeting in this blog and what we have experienced so far in a next blog to come soon.

Though the EC provides a definition of ITN key terms in the Guide for Applicants (GfA) and the Work Programme, we at accelopment have experienced that some of the definitions are a bit cryptic and not thoroughly explained for ITN beginners.

There are two opportunities for funding coming up as part of FET Open later this year: A Research and Innovation Action and a Coordination and Support Action.

Horizon 2020 has another two years before it will be succeeded  by the next European framework programme, Horizon Europe. We are taking a look back at the key facts and figures of Horizon 2020.

ITN submissions have, for the first time since the inception of the programme, decreased for two successive years.

With over 700 proposals submitted in 2018 alone, the number of submissions more than doubled compared to the previous year.

We have once again followed up on a previous infographic and have created a new one with up-to-date information and facts and figures on the upcoming Horizon 2020 call topics in the ICT field.

Calculating the success rates based on the number of above-threshold proposals would better reflect the chances of high quality and well formulated proposals.

For most project teams in research and innovation actions, Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation measures are a necessary evil of getting funding. Consequently, the activities planned in these areas are often the result of last minute efforts lacking clearly defined targets and outputs.

We firmly believe that with careful planning, a high quality short proposal proposal can still be prepared in the time remaining.

The Eurostars website offers not only a lot of information on how to apply for funding but also a portal to complete the proposal directly online. Although this might have many advantages such as a clear given structure, character limitation in the text fields and a validation system to make sure no part has been forgotten, it also has its disadvantages. Since the application forms are only accessible online it can be more of a challenge for a consortium to work on the proposal simultaneously, or to keep an overview of what they have been writing so far due to the small text fields.

With the increased budget, we predicted the success rate to increase. Unfortunately, we were wrong. To get a broader understanding on how this situation came to be we’ve spent the past days diving into spreadsheets and analysing the numbers.

Many proposals with scores well into the 80s and 90s will not be receiving funding. At this point many high-scorers will be thinking of a resubmission for the ITN deadline 2019.

We’ve compiled a short comparison of the two funding programmes.

Since 2014 there have been a total of 2,747 proposals submitted and 801 projects funded under EUREKA Eurostars. That means that nearly a third of all proposals have received funding; a much higher success-rate than in most Horizon 2020 instruments.

With the 2018 Call for Proposals recently opening, there is a total of €150 million funding available for Research and Innovation Actions (RIAs), Innovation Actions (IAs) and Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs).

Learn about the cash flow in Horizon 2020 projects, the risks for participating SMEs and how to avoid them.

While it is too late to submit a proposal for cut-off 9, researchers who have just missed the deadline should start thinking about how to improve their proposal.

The change from CTI/KTI to Innosuisse is more than just a rebranding.

Though the funding for Horizon 2020 calls might look more alluring, the alternatives often have a higher success rate and represent an excellent opportunity to get your innovation project funded.

The European Innovation Council pilot brings radical changes into the Horizon 2020 SME instrument for close-to-market and scale-up projects.

Regardless if you are new to EU funding programmes or an experienced proposal writer, identifying the best suitable H2020 scheme.

With the new FET-Open calls, the European Commission confirm its commitment to support the most creative and forward thinking researchers.

Because we’ve already had access to the drafts for some months now, there aren’t many big surprises in store, however there are a few things we’d like to discuss in today’s article.

The ITN-2018 call for proposals opened today and in order to prepare ourselves for the upcoming months we’ve had a look at the past years to find the crucial success factors for a successfully funded proposal.

With the upcoming Work Programmes, the Horizon 2020 information days (and weeks) will have an added significance.

The European Commission published the “Strategic Programme Overarching Document” concerning the upcoming Horizon 2020 Work Programmes earlier this year.

After launching the 9 training modules late last year, we’ve been busy preparing for the first live webinars on: