Horizon Europe offers beneficiaries the option to utilize personnel unit costs, streamlining and minimizing errors in cost declaration for staff in projects. This entails establishing a single predetermined daily rate for personnel, applicable across all staff involved in the project....

The Certificate on the Financial Statement (CFS) after an audit must be issued by a qualified auditor. The auditor has to use the template of the European Commission. The template consists of the “Terms of Reference” (model for the agreement...

To get the legal validation of your entity in the Funding & Tenders Portal, you have to submit various legal documents. This will be done by the Central Validation Service within the European Research Executive Agency for all EU services...

You can find the PIC (Participant Identification Code) number of any registered organization on the Funding & Tenders portal here. This database is the Single Electronic Data Interchange Area (SEDIA) and allows you to find through its name the PIC...

A EU login is the official account necessary to register yourself to access digitally institutions of the European Union. It is simple and easy to create a EU login. Follow these 6 steps. Go to the official EU website to...

If an entity has to pay taxes after receiving a EU grant depends on the situation of the company and the country of origin. European subsidies such as Horizon Europe funds make up a component of the taxable income of...

The Grant Agreement Preparation (GAP) is the phase that starts once you receive the evaluation summary report (ESR) from the European Commission that states that your proposal has been funded. Now, jointly with the European Commission, the coordinator of the...

To recover your entity’s access on the Funding & Tenders Portal, you have to add a new LEAR (Legal Entity Appointed Representative). Only the LEAR has the rights to access your entity’s data and recover the access. This happens when...

The difference between a grant and a tender is that a grant is a financial contribution to your activities that your entity is pursuing. Grants are normally co-funded meaning that a part of the costs will be borne by your...

Yes, several persons can work together on the same proposal on the Funding & Tenders Portal. Once logged in with your account on the Funding & Tenders Portal, go to My Proposals. Select the proposal for which you want to...

To be notified when a new call is launched in the Funding & Tenders Portal, you need to subscribe to the RSS feed of the page of the portal. To subscribe to the RSS feed, there are two different ways....

To get a PIC (Participant Identification Code) number on the Funding & Tenders Portal of the European Commission, you first have to register on the Portal and create an EU Login. It is a 9-digit number that serves as a...

A LEAR is a Legal Entity Appointed Representative. This is a person appointed by its legal representative (CEO, Rector, Director General) to manage the legal and financial information about the organisation (i.e. change address), manage access rights of persons in...

To change your organisation’s address in the Funding & Tenders Portal, you have to go to the Funding & Tenders Portal and login with the email address and password of your organisation’s account. The account should be the one of...

De minimis aid State aid and the de minimis aid criteria only apply to ‘state resources’ whereas resources centrally managed by EU institutions do not constitute state resources. Centrally managed programmes by the European Commission or its Agencies, such as...

Important budget shifts in EU projects should be reported to the coordinator and the coordinator should report it to the funding authority (i.e. European Commission) and request an amendment of the Grant Agreement. As a general rule, important budget shifts...

The Funding & Tenders Portal of the European Commission is the central shop window for EU funding and the procurement actions for all European bodies. If you are interested in getting a grant from the EU or offering your products...

To change a bank account in a grant agreement (Life, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, etc.), you have to submit a new financial identification form. The financial identification form is the official document provided by the European Union (EU) to be...

In European research and innovation projects, especially Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020, the dissemination and communication of results is mandatory. According to article 17 of the Horizon Europe grant agreement and article 29.1 of the Horizon 2020 grant agreement, each...

The main steps of an EU project depend on the call and on the program. Some calls have rather long and complex processes whereas other shorter. In this case we will take the example of a Horizon Europe project, as...

Depending on the programme and type of action, there are different kinds of EU grant participants. Entities can participate in various roles: as coordinator, beneficiaries, affiliated entities, associated partners, in-kind contributors, subcontractors or recipients of financial support to third parties....