Lump sum proposals and projects in Horizon Europe

The share of lump sum funding in the Horizon Europe 2025-27 Work Programmes will be even higher than before. Lump sum funding was created to make the programme simpler by removing the need to report actual costs and reduce the financial error rate. 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 a winning lump sum proposal and managing a lump sum project effectively, our trainers Ömer and Krisztina will help you out with pro tips and practices on how to succeed at it based on their own experience with lump sum grants. 

The course will cover:  

• Best practices to design a winning lump sum proposal
• Distribution and number of work packages in your proposal and how these are linked to the reporting periods and the payment system of lump sum projects 
• How to define the lump sum shares of the work packages in your proposal
• The detailed lump sum budget table – Tips to define sufficient units for your costs 
• Evaluation of the lump sum proposals – extracts from our own ESRs
• 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
• Showcasing a lump sum performance monitoring system.
• Keeping records – what 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 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.   

 

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 or you are already implementing your lump sum project as a partner or as a coordinator. This course is designed for future and current beneficiaries who are familiar with the basics of HE proposal writing and project management.

 

Not ready to take the leap? Check out our recorded webinars and get a quick overview of some of the most burning Horizon Europe topics before joining us at this course! Check them out here!