A new challenge ahead of us under the Horizon Europe 2026 calls
Have you just managed to find your way around the detailed budget Excel table?
Bad news: Horizon Europe calls implementing lump sum budgets will gradually shift from the Excel budget to integrated budget tables in Part A of the proposal. A first batch was piloted under the April deadlines of Cluster 5 calls. Result: A final consolidated proposal file of 700+ pages…
Join us to get an insight to the lump sum budgets in Horizon Europe with a special focus on the upcoming integrated budget tables in Part A of the proposal. We will cover the latest experiences and stories on lump sum budgeting in Horizon Europe and introduce the Excel budget table, comparing the budget preparation process, along with the challenges ahead of us with the introduction of the online budget tables.
As always, the floor will be open to allow for a common platform for exchanging experiences and lessons learned, therefore we welcome your active participation and look forward to hearing your stories, including frustrations.
We welcome all those who submitted Horizon Europe proposals in the previous rounds of calls, as well as those who are totally new to the programme.
This session will cover:
- Evolution of lump sum in Horizon Europe;
- Coordination of lump sum budget preparation: methods, trends and best practices;
- How should our approach change to lump sum budget preparation to efficiently manage the online budget forms in Part A? Tips for coordinators to survive budget moderation, and advice for partners to put together effectively their own budget and ease the coordinator’s job;
- Personal experiences of the participants for a truly collective experience;
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 have been involved successfully in over 30 projects, coordinating six of them. Under the first work programmes of Horizon Europe, we are currently involved in 11 collaborative projects, coordinating one 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 15 years. Read more about our projects here.
