Typical mistakes in Horizon Europe proposals – Showcasing negative comments from Evaluation Summary Reports (ESRs)

The best way to improve your proposal writing skills and your success rate is to actually write and submit proposals. The second best way is to learn from the evaluators' feedback – both positive and negative.  

As of now, the first half of Horizon Europe is over. We are about to run out of calls under the 2023-2024/2025 work programmes, and the draft work programmes of 2025 have started circulating with the final ones to be published in spring 2025.

The evaluation summary reports (ESRs) of our successful as well as unsuccessful Horizon Europe proposals in the past 4 years have allowed us to draw several conclusions on the key success criteria of competitive proposals. 

Join us to hear our take on the Commission's and the evaluators’ expectations on the different sections of a Horizon Europe proposal: from objectives to methodology, ambition to impact, dissemination to IP management, work plan to horizontal aspects – we will showcase what the evaluators criticised and how they down-scored proposals on the award criteria. Based on these, we will provide tips on how to fix those potential shortcomings in your upcoming proposals. 

 

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 webinar for?   

This webinar is for all those who would like to submit a proposal under the current and upcoming calls of Horizon Europe. It is suitable for beginner as well as advanced participants who would like to get practical tips on how to maximise the success rate of their proposals.