Dr. Christophe COUDUN

Senior Project Adviser

European Commission - Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Basic guidance on submitting a proposal

• One of the six Executive Agencies

• Managing EU programmes

• Feeding into the policy-making process with project outcome & success stories

EASME's role within the European Commission

Evaluation

Grant Agreement Preparation

Project follow-up

Policy feedback https://ec.europa.eu/easme

How to apply for H2020

Find a topic Find partners

Create an account

Register your

organisationSubmit a proposal

Work Programme Find a topic

Participant Portal

Filters words in the call title and ID only!

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Topics description and conditions Find a topic

Action types

• Research and innovation actions (RIA)• New knowledge or a new technology

• Innovation actions (IA)• Closer-to-the-market activities (new or improved products or

services)

• Coordination and support actions (CSA)• Coordination and networking of research and innovation

projects, programmes and policies

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Topics structure and description

• Topic description• Specific challenge• Scope• Expected impact

• Topic conditions and documents• Eligible countries• Eligibility and admissibility conditions• Proposal page limits and layout• Evaluation• Indicative time for evaluation and grant agreement• Proposal templates, evaluation forms and model grant

agreement

Find a topic

How to find partners

• Participant Portal Partner Search https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/organisations/partner_search.html

• NCPs CaRE Portal for SC5http://partnersearch.ncps-care.eu/index.php?index=6

• CORDIS partner search platformhttps://cordis.europa.eu/partners/web/guest

• LinkedIn group "Environment projects & partner search – EASME"https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7001906

Find partners

• Register your organization and get a PIC (Participant Identification Code) https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/display/ECResearchGMS/Participant+Portal+IT+Manual

Create an account

Register your

organisation

• Plan ahead

• Read carefully

• Be involved, be realistic

• Check the guides developed by

the NCPs Network, e.g.

• Dos and Donts for Applicants

• E Booklet of Best Practices

• Evaluators Recommendations

for Applicants

http://www.ncps-

care.eu/?page_id=154

Start early … start now!

Submit a proposal

Horizontal aspects to be taken into account

• Innovation• Exploitation, dissemination, IPR• Social sciences and humanities• Co-design

• Gender dimension

• Management of research data

• International cooperation Info Day web streamed:https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/2017-information-day

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Receipt of proposals

Individualevaluation

Consensusevaluation Finalisation

Experts

IndividualEvaluationReports

ConsensusReport

Information sent to applicants

Eligibility check

Allocation of proposals to evaluators

EC/EASME EC/EASME

Overview of the evaluation process Submit a proposal

• Fair and equal treatment of all proposers

• Group of (at least three) independent external experts –

different nationalities, backgrounds (EU has a database of

80,000+ evaluators)

• Confidential process, no conflicts of interest

• Evaluation based on the topic text and evaluation criteria

H2020 Evaluation Principles

• Excellence• Impact• Quality & efficiency of implementation

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Outcome of the evaluation

Deadline to inform: 5 months

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Impact of grant preparation on evaluation

• No grant negotiation phase!

• Time from submission of a proposal, evaluation and signature of the grant is 8 months maximum

• What does this mean for the evaluation of proposal?• Proposals are evaluated as submitted

• No substantial modifications can be recommended

Submit a proposal

Information sources and support• Horizon 2020 Participant Portal

• H2020 online manual• Check the Frequently Asked Questions• Contact the Horizon2020 Research Enquiry Service• IT Helpdesk

• National Contact Points (NCPs)

• Horizon 2020 and FP7 projects (CORDIS database)

• EASME website, especially Info Day web streamed:• https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/2017-information-day

Submit a proposal

New tools on H2020 Participant Portal!• Data on proposals

Statistics such as number of submitted proposals per country, success rates of proposals, etc.

• Data on projectsStatistics such as number of grants per type of organisation, per H2020 thematic area, etc.

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/projectresults

Explore on-going or completed SC5 projects!

https://sc5.easme-web.eu

Possibility to filterprojects by country, topics (e.g. "Natural resourcesand ecosystems") or to use keywords

25% new experts

Read excellent proposals

Network with fellows

• Academia• Private sector / innovation agencies• Local / national authorities / agencies

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/experts

Become an independent expert!

Dr. Christophe COUDUNSenior Project Adviser

EASME, Environment & Resources Unit

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