Analysing topic text as the first step to a successful proposal

The European Commission has officially launched the 2025 Horizon Europe Work Programmes, marking the start of a highly competitive race for securing funding in the upcoming autumn deadlines. But what makes a proposal truly competitive? It all starts with how you read and decode the topic text.  

While many applicants rush into writing without fully analysing the requirements, those who take the time to extract, analyse and interpret the expectations of the European Commission within the topic text stand a much better chance of success.

This free 45-minute webinar will show you what those important elements are, how to find and utilize them to build a competitive proposal.  

Our expert Jelena will show you step-by-step how to analyse a complex Horizon Europe Cluster 1 Research and Innovation Action (RIA) topic.

You will learn how to extract essential elements from the text and translate them into your proposal narrative: from objectives and activities to expected outcomes, stakeholder involvement and cross-cutting issues.  

What you will learn:  

• How to approach and systematically analyse Horizon Europe call texts.  

• How to extract the crucial elements that should shape your proposal narrative.  

• How to apply the call analysis methodology to any topic you target in Pillar II (Clusters).  

• How to increase your proposal’s competitiveness in the newly launched 2025 calls.  

Don’t miss this chance to boost your proposal development skills and gain a competitive edge in the 2025 Horizon Europe application race! 

Register now for this free webinar designed for both beginners and experienced applicants!

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 and tools for making sure that their proposals are within scope and competitively address all the call requirements. 

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.