The Council The Council of the European Union (EU) is the institution that represents the member states’ governments. Informally known as the Council, it is where the ministers from each EU country meet to adopt laws and coordinate policies. Role of the presidency of the Council The presidency of the Council is responsible for the functioning of the Council…

“On the 25thof November 2020, the first edition of Startup Cities Summit took place, organized by the Global StartupCities initiative…” — I remember how I used to write official reports back in the day (not talking about last century if that was your question, but you can keep hanging on…

Do you constantly receive high scores on the Excellence and on the Impact sections for your Horizon 2020 proposal, but the Implementation score drags you down? Here are four ideas on what the potential problems might be, and how to improve next time. 1. You are not including enough details…

We recently held a webinar titled Fast-track to EU Funding and Horizon 2020; participants were from different countries, types of organisations and fields, but all had one objective in common: hacking their way through the jungle of EU funds, programmes and projects, and get started with project applications. Let me…

Before starting, we would like to motivate you a bit. You should know that a proposal rejection is NOT a rejection of your interests or not even necessarily a rejection of the quality of what was proposed. According to the Horizon 2020 statistics, only 12.6% of proposals were retained for…

Just yesterday you were involved in several specific tasks for various projects and now your supervisors entrust you to manage your own? Or perhaps your project idea received funding and now you have a chance to realize it? Congratulations! You are at the start of a very exciting and challenging…

1. Evaluators favour specific countries This is probably the most common misconception we hear from participants at our training courses, as researchers very often believe that evaluators will seek for specific countries to be involved in each and every proposal. The truth is, the geographical representation of your partnership is not an evaluation criterion in…