Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP), also known as cascade funding, is an increasingly strategic instrument in Horizon Europe projects to engage external stakeholders, foster innovation uptake, and extend project impact beyond the core consortium. While the core rules remain largely aligned with other EU programmes, Horizon Europe introduces specific expectations regarding transparency, evaluation processes, and compliance that require careful planning already at the proposal stage. 

In this webinar, we will guide you through the key design principles and practical implementation aspects of FSTP schemes under Horizon Europe. Building on hands-on experience from multiple projects, you will gain a clear overview of how to structure calls, ensure compliance with funding rules, and manage the full lifecycle from call preparation to evaluation, contracting, and monitoring while avoiding common pitfalls. 

By the end of the webinar, you will be able to: 

• Understand the regulatory framework and key requirements of FSTP under Horizon Europe; 

• Design compliant and realistic cascade funding schemes already at proposal stage; 

• Structure transparent evaluation and selection processes for third-party applicants; 

• Manage the full lifecycle of FSTP calls, including contracting, reporting, and monitoring; 

Join us to strengthen your project design and ensure your FSTP scheme delivers maximum impact while remaining fully compliant with Horizon Europe rules. 

Why Europa Media?     

Europa Media is Europe’s leading provider of practical training courses on EU’s research and innovation programmes. We have 25+ years of experience in developing and implementing projects under the Framework Programmes. Under Horizon 2020, we were involved successfully in over 30 projects, coordinating six of them. Under Horizon Europe, we have been involved in 16 collaborative projects, coordinating or co-coordinating four of them. Europa Media’s trainers are actual project managers, coordinators, and financial administrators of these projects, sharing their stories and providing you with hands-on tips based on their everyday experience. For the past 20 years, they have been supporting all the major institutions as well as several of the NCPs in the Member States and countries associated to the Framework Programmes. This event, as always, has been designed based on our direct hands-on experience with EU research and innovation proposals and is, therefore, 100% practice-driven. Our practical approach has attracted over 10,000 participants from all over the world in the past 20+ years. Read more about our projects here.