Lump sum proposals and projects in Horizon Europe

Lump sum funding is increasingly used in Horizon Europe to make the programme simpler by removing the need to report actual costs and reduce the financial error rate. It is meant to simplify the funding mechanism while all the main features of the research funding stay the same.  

However, the details are always important; simplification comes at a price, and these are the specific extra tasks and rules that everyone applying for lump sum funding should be aware of – both when writing a proposal and implementing a project. 

If you want to dig into the details of writing and managing a lump sum project, our trainers Ömer and Krisztina will help you out with pro tips and tricks on how to succeed at it based on their own experience with lump sum grants. 

Over half a day, the course will cover:  

• Main features of lump sum funding 

• How to define the lump sum in your proposal and lump sum budget table tips to define sufficient units for your costs 

• Distribution and number of work packages in your proposal and how it is linked to the payment system of lump sum projects 

• Evaluation of the lump sum proposals 

• Grant preparation of your lump sum projects – specific articles in your Grant Agreement and tips to specify lump sum features in your Consortium Agreement 

• Changes in your lump sum project implementation – how to amend your lump sum grant?  

• How to report your lump sum project, with a detailed introduction to periodic reporting.  

• How to deal with partially completed work packages and how to report deviations of your lump sum projects 

• Keeping records – what you need and don’t need to keep 

• Payment schedule – Partial payment 

Why Europa Media?   

Europa Media is Europe’s leading provider of practical training courses on EU’s research and innovation programmes. We have 20+ 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 seven 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. 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.   

Who is this course for?  

This course is for you if you are planning to submit a competitive proposal under the Horizon Europe lump sum calls. This course is designed for future beneficiaries who are familiar with the basics of HE proposal writing and project management.