Horizon Europe Programme

Proposal Template

Application forms (Part A)

Project proposal – Technical description (Part B)

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Disclaimer
This document is aimed at informing potential applicants for Horizon Europe funding. It serves only as an example. The actual
Web forms and templates, provided in the online submission system under the Funding and Tenders Portal, might differ from
this example.
Structure of the Proposal

The proposal contains two parts:

• Part A of the proposal is generated by the IT system. It is based on the information entered by the participants
through the submission system in the Funding & Tenders Portal. The participants can update the information in the
submission system at any time before final submission.

• Part B of the proposal is the narrative part that includes three sections that each correspond to an evaluation criterion. Part
B needs to be uploaded as a PDF document following the templates downloaded by the applicants in the submission system
for the specific call or topic. The templates for a specific call may slightly differ from the example provided in this document.

The electronic submission system is an online wizard that guides you step-by-step through the preparation of your proposal.
The submission process consists of 6 steps:

- Step 1: Logging in the Portal

- Step 2: Select the call, topic and type of action in the Portal
- Step 3: Create a draft proposal: Title, acronym, summary, main organisation and contact details
- Step 4: Manage your parties and contact details: add your partner organisations and contact details.
- Step 5: Edit and complete web forms for proposal part A and upload proposal part B
- Step 6: Submit the proposal

➢ Instructions and footnotes in green will not appear in the text generated by the IT system.
➢ For options [in square brackets]: the option that applies will be automatically shown in the IT system (Part A) or
included in the template of Part B offered by the IT system or you must select the appropriate value from a
predefined list.
➢ For fields in [grey in square brackets] (even if they are part of an option as specified in the previous item): enter
the appropriate data in the IT system.
➢ Data in coloured fields will be prefilled by the IT tool.

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Horizon Europe

Application forms (Part A)

Topic:
Type of action:
Type of Model Grant Agreement:

Proposal number:

Proposal acronym:
Table of contents

Section Title Action

1 General information

2 Participants

3 Budget

4 Ethics and security

5 Other questions

The forms must be filled in for each proposal using the templates available in the Submission System. Some data fields in the forms are
pre-filled based on the previous steps in the Submission wizard.

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1 – General information
Section 1 provides basic data on the proposal. It can be filled in by contacts of the coordinator. Other participants may view this section only. Read-only
parts are marked in blue.

Topic Type of action

Call Type of Model Grant Agreement

Acronym Acronym is mandatory

Proposal title Max 200 characters (with spaces). Must be understandable for non-specialists in your field.

Note that for technical reasons, the following characters are not accepted in the Proposal Title and will be removed: < > " &

Duration in
months Estimated duration of the project in full months.

Fixed keyword

Fixed keyword
SDG?

Free keywords Enter any words you think give extra detail of the scope of your proposal (max 200 characters with
spaces).

Abstract
The abstract should provide the reader with a clear understanding of the objectives of the proposal, how they will be achieved, and their relevance to
the Work Programme. This summary will be used as the short description of the proposal in the evaluation process and in communications to the
programme management committees and other interested parties. It must therefore be short and precise and should not contain confidential
information. Use plain typed text, avoiding formulae and other special characters. If the proposal is written in a language other than English, please
include an English version of this abstract in the Part B (technical description) of the proposal. .

Has this proposal (or a very similar one) been submitted in the past 2 years in response to a call
for proposals under any EU programme, including the current call? A `similar' proposal or contract is one Yes No
that differs from the current one in minor ways, and in which some of the present consortium members are involved.

Please give the proposal reference or contract number XXXXX-X

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Declarations
These declarations can be filled in by any coordinator contact(s). All declarations are mandatory.

1) We declare to have the explicit consent of all applicants on their participation and on the content of 
this proposal.

2) We confirm that the information contained in this proposal is correct and complete and that none of 
the project activities have started before the proposal was submitted (unless explicitly authorised
in the call conditions).

3) We declare:
– to be fully compliant with the eligibility criteria set out in the call 
– not to be subject to any exclusion grounds under the EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046
– to have the financial and operational capacity to carry out the proposed project.

4) We acknowledge that all communication will be made through the Funding & Tenders Portal
electronic exchange system and that access and use of this system is subject to the Funding & 
Tenders Portal Terms & Conditions.

5) We have read, understood and accepted the Funding & Tenders Portal Terms & Conditions and
Privacy Statement that set out the conditions of use of the Portal and the scope, purposes, retention

periods, etc. for the processing of personal data of all data subjects whose data we communicate for
the purpose of the application, evaluation, award and subsequent management of our grant, prizes
and contracts (including financial transactions and audits).
6) We declare that the proposal complies with ethical principles (including the highest standards of
research integrity as set out in the ALLEA European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, as well

as applicable international and national law, including the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the
European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights and its Supplementary Protocols.
Appropriate procedures, policies and structures are in place to foster responsible research practices,
to prevent questionable research practices and research misconduct, and to handle allegations of
breaches of the principles and standards in the Code of Conduct.
7) We declare that the proposal has an exclusive focus on civil applications (activities intended to be
used in military application or aiming to serve military purposes cannot be funded). If the project
involves dual-use items in the sense of Regulation 428/2009, or other items for which authorisation is
required, we confirm that we will comply with the applicable regulatory framework (e.g. obtain 
export/import licences before these items are used).

8) We confirm that the activities proposed do not

– aim at human cloning for reproductive purposes;

– intend to modify the genetic heritage of human beings which could make such changes
heritable (with the exception of research relating to cancer treatment of the gonads,
which may be financed), or 
– intend to create human embryos solely for the purpose of research or for the purpose
of stem cell procurement, including by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer.
– lead to the destruction of human embryos (for example, for obtaining stem cells)
These activities are excluded from funding.
9) We confirm that for activities carried out outside the Union, the same activities would have

been allowed in at least one EU Member State
10) [Additional option for LUMP SUM Grants: For Lump Sum Grants with a detailed budget table: We
understand and accept that the EU lump sum grants must be reliable proxies for the actual costs of a
project and confirm that the detailed budget for the proposal has been established in accordance with 
our usual cost accounting practices and in compliance with the basic eligibility conditions for EU
actual cost grants (see AGA ― Annotated Grant Agreement, art 6) and exclude costs that are

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ineligible under the Programme. Purchases and subcontracting costs must be done taking into
account best value for money and must be free of conflict of interest. ]

The coordinator is only responsible for the information relating to their own organisation. Each applicant remains responsible for the
information declared for their organisation. If the proposal is retained for EU funding, they will all be required to sign a declaration of
honour.
False statements or incorrect information may lead to administrative sanctions under the EU Financial Regulation.

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2 – Participants

List of participating organisations

# Participating Organisation Legal Name Country

Coordinator contacts have the rights to:

• add, delete, edit and re-order partners in the consortium

• add, delete, edit and re-order contact points for those organisations
• edit all sections of the administrative forms
• upload, delete, view and download Part B and Annexes (when required for the call)
• submit the proposal

Participant contacts may:

• view all the information in this screen, but not edit it

• edit only the section for their organisation in the administrative forms (including budget)
• view the entire administrative forms
• view/download the Part B and other Annexes

You can manage the list of organisations and access rights of persons at Step 4 of the submission process. You may identify and give access to as
many contact persons of the selected organisations as you wish. The identification is based upon the e-mail address of the person. When you add a
contact person, you will be prompted to supply the contact details: name, e-mail, phone.

Person in charge of the proposal (main contact person): Each organisation needs to have one main contact person identified; the main contact person
will have to fill in full contact details in the administrative form. The 'Main Contact Person' for the coordinating organisation (Participant no. 1) will become
the primary contact person for the Services. Other contact persons may also be identified and may receive read-only or full access rights. Contact
persons with full access rights of the coordinator (Participant no. 1) will be called 'Coordinator contacts' in the Funding & Tenders Portal, while for the
other participants 'Participant Contacts'; contact persons with read-only rights will be called 'Team Members'. Other contact persons are listed with basic
details in the administrative form.

Access rights: The main contact person and contact persons of the coordinator with full access rights have the same level of rights: they can manage the
list of participants and contacts, edit any part of the administrative part of the proposal and upload any attachments (eg. Part B - technical description),
and submit the proposal. Contact persons with read-only rights can only view/download the information. Participant contacts with full access rights can
only edit their section of the administrative form and view all proposal data.
Access rights can be revoked by the Coordinating Organisation contacts. The person who created the proposal cannot be deleted.

Invitation: All contacts will receive an e-mail and a notification to the Portal about the invitation to the proposal upon saving the data at Step 4 of the
submission process.

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Organisation data
The section shows the administrative data of the participating organisation as registered and/or validated in the central registry of organisations of the
European Commission, linked to the given PIC number. Data in blue is read-only, modification is not possible in the proposal forms. For more information
on how to modify this information, please visit the online manual on the participant register.

PIC Legal name

Short name

Address of the organisation

Street
Town
Postcode
Country
Webpage

Specific legal statuses

Read more about legal statuses.

Public .................................................................... unknown Legal person .................................................

unknown
Non-profit .............................................................. unknown
International organisation....................................... unknown
International organisation of European interest ...... unknown
Secondary or Higher education establishment ....... unknown
Research organisation ........................................... unknown

SME status
The enterprise data of the organisation is taken from the Beneficiary Register. Changes to the self-declared or self-assessed SME data can be
performed by the self-registrant or by the LEAR (Legal Entity Appointed Representative) in the Beneficiary Register.

SME self declared status ....................................... unknown

SME self-assessment ............................................ unknown
SME validation sme ............................................... unknown

Based on the above details of the Beneficiary Registry the organisation is not an SME (small- and medium-sized enterprise) for the call.

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Gender equality plan

Only Public bodies, Higher education establishments and Research organisations must answer this question. Be aware that if
the proposal is selected, having a Gender Equality Plan will be necessary before the grant signature.

Does the organisation have a Gender Equality Plan (GEP) covering the elements listed below?
Yes No
Minimum requirements (building blocks) for a GEP
Public GEP: formal document published on the institution’s website and signed by the top
management, addressing the following issues:
− Dedicated resources: commitment of human resources and gender expertise to implement it.
− Data collection and monitoring: sex/gender disaggregated data on personnel and students
and annual reporting based on indicators.
− Training: Awareness raising/trainings on gender equality and unconscious gender biases for
staff and decision-makers.
− Minimum areas to be covered and addressed via concrete measures and targets:
o work-life balance and organisational culture;
o gender balance in leadership and decision-making;
o gender equality in recruitment and career progression;
o integration of the gender dimension into research and teaching content;
o measures against gender-based violence including sexual harassment.

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Departments carrying out the proposed work

The information serves mainly statistical purposes. For determining the eligibility of the proposal, the official address of the organisation is taken into
account.

Department 1

Department name  not applicable

 Same as organisation address

Street Please enter street name and number

Town

Postcode

Country

Links with other participants

Please indicate if there are dependencies with other participants of the proposal.
Two participants (legal entities) are dependent on each other where there is a controlling relationship between them:
* A legal entity is under the same direct or indirect control as another legal entity;or
* A legal entity directly or indirectly controls another legal entity;or
* A legal entity is directly or indirectly controlled by another legal entity.Control:

Legal entity A controls legal entity B if:

* A, directly or indirectly, holds more than 50% of the nominal value of the issued share capital or a majority of the voting rights of the
shareholders or associates of B, or
* A, directly or indirectly, holds in fact or in law the decision-making powers in B.

The following relationships between legal entities shall not in themselves be deemed to constitute controlling relationships:
(a) the same public investment corporation, institutional investor or venture-capital company has a direct or indirect holding of more than 50 %
of the nominal value of the issued share capital or a majority of voting rights of the shareholders or associates;
(b) the legal entities concerned are owned or supervised by the same public body.

Type of link Participant

Select one participant from the list of participants

[Same group]
[Controls]
[Is controlled by]

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Main contact person

It is the main scientist or team leader in charge of the proposal for the participant. For participant number 1 (the coordinator), this will be the person the
EU services will contact concerning this proposal (e.g. for additional information, invitation to hearings, sending of evaluation results, convocation to
negotiations). The data in blue is read-only. Details (name, first name and e-mail) of Main Contact persons should be edited in Step 4 of the Submission
wizard.

Title Gender Woman Man Non binary

First name Last name

E-mail

Position in org. Please indicate the position of the person

Department  Same as organisation

 Same as organisation address

Street

Town Post code

Country

Website

Phone 1 Phone 2

Other contact persons

First name Last name e-mail Phone

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Researchers involved in the proposal

It needs instructions that we only need names of researchers and add a link with definition of researcher.
Include also person in charge of the proposal if a researcher
The table shows the data of the researchers as registered in the person profile of the portal. Data is read-only; modification is not possible in the proposal forms. For more information on how to modify this information,
please visit the online manual on the participant registry.

Title First Name Last Name Gender Nationality E-mail Career stage1 Role of Reference Type of
researcher (in Identifier identifier
the project)
[Woman] [Category A – Top [Leading] [ORCID]
grade researcher]
[Man] [Team member] [Researcher
[Category B – Senior Id]
[Non-binary] researcher]
[Other -
[Category C – specify]
Recognised
researcher]

[Category D – First
stage researcher]

1
Career stages as defined in Frascati 2015 manual:
Category A – Top grade researcher: the single highest grade/post at which research is normally conducted. Example: ‘Full professor’ or ‘Director of research’.
Category B – Senior researcher: Researchers working in positions not as senior as top position but more senior than newly qualified doctoral graduates (IsCED level 8). Examples:
‘associate professor’ or ‘senior researcher’ or ‘principal investigator’.
Category C – Recognised researcher: the first grade/post into which a newly qualified doctoral graduate would normally be recruited. Examples: ‘assistant professor’, ‘investigator’ or
‘post-doctoral fellow’.
Category D – First stage researcher: Either doctoral students at the IsCED level 8 who are engaged as researchers, or researchers working in posts that do not normally require a
doctorate degree. Examples: ‘PhD students’ or ‘junior researchers’ (without a PhD).

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Role of participating organisation in the project

Applicants may select more than one option.
For guidance on the different options, please go to the online manual on the Funding & Tenders Portal.

Project management 
Communication, dissemination and engagement 
Provision of research and technology infrastructure 
Co-definition of research and market needs 
Civil society representative 
Policy maker or regulator, incl. standardisation body 
Research performer 
Technology developer 
Testing/validation of approaches and ideas 
Prototyping and demonstration 
IPR management incl. technology transfer 
Public procurer of results 
Private buyer of results 
Finance provider (public or private) 
Education and training 
Contributions from the social sciences or/and the humanities 
Other
Specify (50 character limit):


List of up to 5 publications, widely-used datasets, software, goods, services, or any other achievements
relevant to the call content.

Type of achievement Short description

[Publication] Key elements of the achievement, including a short qualitative assessment of its impact
and (where available) its digital object identifier (DOI) or other type of persistent
[Dataset] identifier (PID).

[Software] Publications, in particular journal articles, are expected to be open access. Datasets are
expected to be FAIR and ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’.
[Good]

[Service]

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[Other achievement]

List of up to 5 most relevant previous projects or activities, connected to the subject of this proposal

Name of Project or
Short description
Activity

Description of any significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical equipment, relevant to
the proposed work

Name of
infrastructure or Short description
equipment

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3 – Budget for the proposal

Estimated income

Estimated expenditure

Requested EU contribution Revenues Other sources of

financing

Total
Estimated eligible costs EU contribution to eligible costs estimate
d
income

Maximum Requested
A. B. C. Purchase costs D. Other cost E. Indirect Total EU EU Income Financial Own
Personnel Subcontracti categories costs/€ eligible Funding contributio contributio generated contributi resource
costs/€ ng costs/€ (e) = 25% * costs rate n to n to by the ons s (s)=(n)
[(a1) + (c1) (h) = (a1) + eligible eligible action
C.1 C.2 C.3 D.X +(o)+(p)+
+ (c2) + (c3) (b) + (c1) +
No Participant Country Travel Equipm Other [specific cost + (d6) + (d7)
(U) costs costs/€ (q) + (r)
(a1) (b) (c2) + (c3) +
name and ent/€ goods, category] /€ + (d8) + (d) + (e)
(Requeste (o) (q) (r)
(l) = (U) * (h) d grant
subsiste works (d10) +
nce/€ (c2) and (dx) (d11)] amount)
services (m) (n)
(c1) /€
(c3)

1 Participant 1 NL

2 Participant 2 LB

Affiliated LB
Entity

3 Participant 3 DE

Associated AR
Partner

4 Participant 4 US
(without
funding)

Total

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Possible ‘Other cost categories’ for Horizon Europe

Estimated project expenditure

Estimated eligible costs

D. Other cost categories

D.1 D.2 Internally [D.3 [D.4 Virtual [D.5 PCP/PPI [D.6 [D.7 [D.8 ERC [D.9 ERC [D.10 EIC [D.11 EIC
No Participant name Count Financial invoiced Transnation access to procurement European European additional additional portfolio pre-transition
ry support to goods and al access to research costs Partnership Cofund staff funding funding activities activities
third parties services research infrastructure Cofund mobility (subcontracti
infrastructure s (Actual costs) additional costs (Actual ng and (? costs) (? costs)
(Actual (Unit costs - s coordiination costs) internal
costs) usual (Unit costs) (d5) ] and (Unit costs) invoices) (d10) ] (d11) ]
accounting (Unit costs) networking (d8) ]
(d1) practices) (d4) ] costs (d7) ] (Actual
(d3) ] costs)
(d2) (Unit costs)
(d9) ]
(d6) ]

1 Participant 1 NL

2 Participant 2 LB

Affiliated Entity LB

3 Participant 3 DE

Associated AR
Partner

4 Participant 4 US
(without funding)

Total

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4 – Ethics

Ethics issues table

This table should be completed as an essential part of your proposal. Please go through the table and indicate which elements concern your proposal by
answering ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. If you answer ‘Yes’ to any of the questions,
▪ indicate in the adjacent box at which page in your full proposal further information relating to that ethics issue can be found, and
▪ provide additional information on that ethics issue in the Ethics Self-Assessment section.
For more information on each of the ethics issues and how to address them, including detailed legal references, see the guidelines ‘How to Complete
your Ethics Self-Assessment’.

1. HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS AND HUMAN EMBRYOS Page

Does this activity involve Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs)? Yes No

If YES: Will they be directly derived from embryos within this project? Yes No

Are they previously established cells lines? Yes No

Are the cell lines registered in the European registry for human embryonic stem Yes No
cell lines?

Does this activity involve the use of human embryos? Yes No

If YES: Will the activity lead to their destruction? Yes No

2. HUMANS Page

Does this activity involve human participants? Yes No

Are they volunteers for nonmedical studies (e.g. social or human sciences Yes No
research)?
If YES:
Are they healthy volunteers for medical studies? Yes No

Are they patients for medical studies? Yes No

Are they potentially vulnerable individuals or groups? Yes No

Are they children/minors? Yes No

Are they other persons unable to give informed consent? Yes No

Does this activity involve interventions (physical also including imaging technology, behavioural Yes No
treatments, etc.) on the study participants?

If YES: Does it involve invasive techniques? Yes No

Does it involve collection of biological samples? Yes No

Does this activity involve conducting a clinical study as defined by the Clinical Trial Yes No
Regulation (EU 536/2014)? (using pharmaceuticals, biologicals, radiopharmaceuticals, or
advanced therapy medicinal products)

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If YES: Is it a clinical trial? Yes No

Is it a low-intervention clinical trial? Yes No

3. HUMAN CELLS / TISSUES (not covered by section 1) Page

Does this activity involve the use of human cells or tissues? Yes No

If YES: Are they human embryonic or foetal cells or tissues? Yes No

Are they available commercially? Yes No

Are they obtained within this project? Yes No

Are they obtained from another project, laboratory or institution? Yes No

Are they obtained from biobank? Yes No

4. PERSONAL DATA Page

Does this activity involve processing of personal data? Yes No

If YES: Does it involve the processing of special categories of personal data (e.g.: sexual Yes No
lifestyle, ethnicity, genetic, biometric and health data, political opinion, religious or
philosophical beliefs)?

If YES: Does it involve processing of genetic, biometric or health data? Yes No

Does it involve profiling, systematic monitoring of individuals, or processing of Yes No

large scale of special categories of data or intrusive methods of data processing
(such as, surveillance, geolocation tracking etc.)?

Does this activity involve further processing of previously collected personal data (including use of Yes No
preexisting data sets or sources, merging existing data sets)?

Is it planned to export personal data from the EU to non-EU countries? Yes No

If YES: Specify the type of personal data and countries involved:

Is it planned to import personal data from non-EU countries into the EU or from a non-EU country to Yes No
another non-EU country?

If YES: Specify the type of personal data and countries involved

Does this activity involve the processing of personal data related to criminal convictions or offences? Yes No

5. ANIMALS Page
Does this activity involve animals? Yes No

If YES: Are they vertebrates? Yes No

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Are they non-human primates (NHP)? Yes No

Are they genetically modified? Yes No

Are they cloned farm animals? Yes No

Are they endangered species? Yes No

6. NON-EU COUNTRIES Page

Yes No
Will some of the activities be carried out in non-EU countries?

If YES: Specify the countries:

Yes No
In case non-EU countries are involved, do the activities undertaken in these countries raise
potential ethics issues?

If YES: Specify the countries:

Is it planned to use local resources (e.g. animal and/or human tissue samples, genetic material, Yes No
live animals, human remains, materials of historical value, endangered fauna or flora samples,
etc.)?

Is it planned to import any material (other than data) from non-EU countries into the EU or from Yes No
a non-EU country to another non-EU country? For data imports, see section 4.

If YES: Specify material and countries involved:

Is it planned to export any material (other than data) from the EU to non-EU countries? For data Yes No
exports, see section 4.

If YES: Specify material and countries involved:

Yes No
Does this activity involves low and/or lower-middle income countries? (if yes, detail the benefit-
sharing actions planned in the self-assessment)

Could the situation in the country put the individuals taking part in the activity at risk? Yes No

7. ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH and SAFETY Page

Does this activity involve the use of substances or processes that may cause harm to the Yes No
environment, to animals or plants (during the implementation of the activity or further to the use
of the results, as a possible impact)?

Does this activity deal with endangered fauna and/or flora / protected areas? Yes No

Does this activity involve the use of substances or processes that may cause harm to humans, Yes No
including those performing the activity (during the implementation of the activity or further to the
use of the results, as a possible impact)?

8. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Page

Does this activity involve the development, deployment and/or use of Artificial Intelligence? (if Yes No
yes, detail in the self-assessment whether that could raise ethical concerns related to human
rights and values and detail how this will be addressed).

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9. OTHER ETHICS ISSUES Page

Yes No
Are there any other ethics issues that should be taken into consideration?

Please specify: (Maximum number of characters allowed: 1000)

I confirm that I have taken into account all ethics issues above and that, if any ethics issues apply, I
will complete the ethics self-assessment as described in the guidelines ‘How to Complete your
Ethics Self-Assessment’. 

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ETHICS SELF-ASSESSMENT
If you have entered any issues in the ethics issue table, you must perform an ethics self-assessment in accordance with the guidelines "How
to Complete your Ethics Self-Assessment" and complete the table below.

Ethical dimension of the objectives, methodology and likely impact

Explain in detail the identified issues in relation to:

– objectives of the activities (e.g. study of vulnerable populations, etc.)
– methodology (e.g. clinical trials, involvement of children, protection of personal data, etc.)
– the potential impact of the activities (e.g. environmental damage, stigmatisation of particular social
groups, political or financial adverse consequences, misuse, etc.)

Compliance with ethical principles and relevant legislations

Describe how the issue(s) identified in the ethics issues table above will be addressed in order to
adhere to the ethical principles and what will be done to ensure that the activities are compliant with
the E U / national legal and ethical requirements of the country or countries where the tasks are to
be carried out. It is reminded that for activities performed in a non-EU countries, they should also be
allowed in at least one EU Member State.

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Security

Security issues table

Please indicate, by answering Yes or No to all of the questions in the below table, if the proposed activity will use and/or generate information which might
raise security concerns. If an answer is Yes, then indicate in the adjacent box at which page in your full proposal further information relating to that issue
can be found.

1. EU classified information (EUCI)2 Page

Does this activity involve information and/or materials requiring protection against unauthorised Yes No
disclosure (EUCI)?

If YES: Is the activity going to use classified information as background3 information? Yes No

Is the activity going to generate EU classified foreground4 information as results? Yes No

Does this activity involve HE associated and/or third countries? Yes No

If YES: Do participants from non-EU countries need to have access to EUCI? Yes No

Do the non-EU countries concerned have a security of information agreement with Yes No
the EU

2. MISUSE Page
Yes No
Does this activity have the potential for misuse of results?

Does the activity provide knowledge, materials and technologies that could be Yes No
channelled into crime and/or terrorism?
If YES:
Could the activity result in the development of chemical, biological, radiological or Yes No
nuclear (CBRN) weapons and the means for their delivery?

3. OTHER SECURITY ISSUES Page

Does this activity involve information and/or materials subject to national security restrictions? Yes No

If yes, please specify: (Maximum number of characters allowed: 1000)

Yes No
Are there any other security issues that should be taken into consideration?

If yes, please specify: (Maximum number of characters allowed: 1000)

2
According to the Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/444 of 13 March 2015 on the security rules for protecting EU
classified information, “European Union classified information (EUCI) means any information or material designated by an EU
security classification, the unauthorised disclosure of which could cause varying degrees of prejudice to the interests of the
European Union or of one or more of the Member States”.
3
Classified background information is information that is already classified by a country and/or international organisation
and/or the EU and is going to be used by the project. In this case, the project must have in advance the authorisation from
the originator of the classified information, which is the entity (EU institution, EU Member State, third state or international
organisation) under whose authority the classified information has been generated.
4
EU classified foreground information is information (documents/deliverables/materials) planned to be generated by the
project and that needs to be protected from unauthorised disclosure. The originator of the EUCI generated by the project is
the European Commission.

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5 – Other questions

Two-stage calls
The full stage-2 proposal must be consistent with the short outline proposal submitted to the stage 1 – in particular with respect to the proposal
characteristics addressing the concepts of excellence and impact.

Are there substantial differences compared to the stage-1 proposal? Yes No

Questions showed only in answer is Yes:

Please list the substantial differences, and indicate the reasons

□ Partnership List the substantial differences and indicate the reasons

□ Budget List the substantial differences and indicate the reasons

□ Approach List the substantial differences and indicate the reasons

[Additional modular extension for Calls with clinical trials: Essential information to be
provided for proposals including clinical trials / studies / investigations
A ‘clinical study’ is defined as any clinical research involving a substantial amount of work related to the observation of, data collection from, or
diagnostic or therapeutic intervention on multiple or individual patients. It includes but is not limited to clinical trials in the sense of the EU
Clinical Trials Directive (2001/20/EC).

Are clinical studies / trials / investigations included in the work plan of this project? Yes No

Please upload the dedicated annex ‘Essential information for clinical studies / trials / investigations’ (a Word template is provided under ‘download
templates’ in the up-load section for Part B and Annexes).

This document should include the relevant information of each clinical study / trial / investigation included in the work plan of this project.

Please give a short title, an acronym or a unique identifier to each clinical study / trial / investigation,
to be used as a reference / identifier in the other parts of the proposal

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Proposal template Part B: technical description
(for full proposals: single stage submission procedure and 2nd stage of a two-stage submission procedure)

This template is to be used in a single- stage submission procedure or at the 2nd stage of a two-stage
submission procedure.
The structure of this template must be followed when preparing your proposal. It has been designed to ensure
that the important aspects of your planned work are presented in a way that will enable the experts to make
an effective assessment against the evaluation criteria. Sections 1, 2 and 3 each correspond to an evaluation
criterion.
Please be aware that proposals will be evaluated as they were submitted, rather than on their potential if
certain changes were to be made. This means that only proposals that successfully address all the required
aspects will have a chance of being funded. There will be no possibility for significant changes to content,
budget and consortium composition during grant preparation.
Page limit: The title, list of participants and sections 1, 2 and 3, together, should not be longer than 45
pages. All tables, figures, references and any other element pertaining to these sections must be included as
an integral part of these sections and are thus counted against this page limit.
The page limit will be applied automatically; therefore you must remove this instruction page before
submitting.
If you attempt to upload a proposal longer than the specified limit before the deadline, you will receive an
automatic warning and will be advised to shorten and re-upload the proposal. After the deadline, excess
pages (in over-long proposals/applications) will be automatically made invisible, and will not be taken into
consideration by the experts. The proposal is a self-contained document. Experts will be instructed to ignore
hyperlinks to information that is specifically designed to expand the proposal, thus circumventing the page
limit.
Please, do not consider the page limit as a target! It is in your interest to keep your text as concise as
possible, since experts rarely view unnecessarily long proposals in a positive light.
The following formatting conditions apply.
The reference font for the body text of proposals is Times New Roman (Windows platforms), Times/Times
New Roman (Apple platforms) or Nimbus Roman No. 9 L (Linux distributions).
The use of a different font for the body text is not advised and is subject to the cumulative conditions that the
font is legible and that its use does not significantly shorten the representation of the proposal in number of
pages compared to using the reference font (for example with a view to bypass the page limit).
The minimum font size allowed is 11 points. Standard character spacing and a minimum of single line
spacing is to be used. This applies to the body text, including text in tables.
Text elements other than the body text, such as headers, foot/end notes, captions, formula's, may deviate, but
must be legible.
The page size is A4, and all margins (top, bottom, left, right) should be at least 15 mm (not including any
footers or headers).

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DEFINITIONS (Included here for convenience. Final presentation will be different).

Critical risk A critical risk is a plausible event or issue that could have a high adverse impact on the ability of
the project to achieve its objectives.

Level of likelihood to occur (Low/medium/high): The likelihood is the estimated probability that
the risk will materialise even after taking account of the mitigating measures put in place.

Level of severity (Low/medium/high): The relative seriousness of the risk and the significance of
its effect.

Deliverable A report that is sent to the Commission or Agency providing information to ensure effective
monitoring of the project. There are different types of deliverables (e.g. a report on specific
activities or results, data management plans, ethics or security requirements).

Impacts Wider long term effects on society (including the environment), the economy and science,
enabled by the outcomes of R&I investments (long term). It refers to the specific contribution
of the project to the work programme expected impacts described in the destination. Impacts
generally occur some time after the end of the project.

Example: The deployment of the advanced forecasting system enables each airport to increase
maximum passenger capacity by 15% and passenger average throughput by 10%, leading to a
28% reduction in infrastructure expansion costs.

Milestone Control points in the project that help to chart progress. Milestones may correspond to the
achievement of a key result, allowing the next phase of the work to begin. They may also be
needed at intermediary points so that, if problems have arisen, corrective measures can be
taken. A milestone may be a critical decision point in the project where, for example, the
consortium must decide which of several technologies to adopt for further development. The
achievement of a milestone should be verifiable.

Objectives The goals of the work performed within the project, in terms of its research and innovation
content. This will be translated into the project’s results. These may range from tackling specific
research questions, demonstrating the feasibility of an innovation, sharing knowledge among
stakeholders on specific issues. The nature of the objectives will depend on the type of action,
and the scope of the topic.

Outcomes The expected effects, over the medium term, of projects supported under a given topic. The
results of a project should contribute to these outcomes, fostered in particular by the
dissemination and exploitation measures. This may include the uptake, diffusion, deployment,
and/or use of the project’s results by direct target groups. Outcomes generally occur during or
shortly after the end of the project.

Example: 9 European airports adopt the advanced forecasting system demonstrated during the
project.

Pathway to Logical steps towards the achievement of the expected impacts of the project over time, in
impact particular beyond the duration of a project. A pathway begins with the projects’ results, to their
dissemination, exploitation and communication, contributing to the expected outcomes in the
work programme topic, and ultimately to the wider scientific, economic and societal impacts of
the work programme destination.

Research Results generated by the action to which access can be given in the form of scientific
output publications, data or other engineered outcomes and processes such as software, algorithms,

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protocols and electronic notebooks.

Results What is generated during the project implementation. This may include, for example, know-
how, innovative solutions, algorithms, proof of feasibility, new business models, policy
recommendations, guidelines, prototypes, demonstrators, databases and datasets, trained
researchers, new infrastructures, networks, etc. Most project results (inventions, scientific
works, etc.) are ‘Intellectual Property’, which may, if appropriate, be protected by formal
‘Intellectual Property Rights’.

Example: Successful large-scale demonstrator: trial with 3 airports of an advanced forecasting

system for proactive airport passenger flow management.

Technology See Work Programme General Annexes section B

Readiness
Level

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Fill in the title of your proposal below.

TITLE OF THE PROPOSAL

The consortium members are listed in part A of the proposal (application forms). A summary list should also be
provided in the table below.
List of participants

Participant No. * Participant organisation name Country

1 (Coordinator)

* Please use the same participant numbering and name as that used in the administrative proposal forms.

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Excellence – aspects to be taken into account.
− Clarity and pertinence of the project’s objectives, and the extent to which the proposed
work is ambitious, and goes beyond the state of the art.
− Soundness of the proposed methodology, including the underlying concepts, models,
assumptions, interdisciplinary approaches, appropriate consideration of the gender
dimension in research and innovation content, and the quality of open science practices,
including sharing and management of research outputs and engagement of citizens, civil
society and end users where appropriate.

1. Excellence

The following aspects will be taken into account only to the extent that the proposed work is within the
scope of the work programme topic.

1.1 Objectives and ambition [e.g. 4 pages]

• Briefly describe the objectives of your proposed work. Why are they pertinent to the work programme
topic? Are they measurable and verifiable? Are they realistically achievable?

• Describe how your project goes beyond the state-of-the-art, and the extent the proposed work is
ambitious. Indicate any exceptional ground-breaking R&I, novel concepts and approaches, new products,
services or business and organisational models. Where relevant, illustrate the advance by referring to
products and services already available on the market. Refer to any patent or publication search carried
out.

• Describe where the proposed work is positioned in terms of R&I maturity (i.e. where it is situated in the
spectrum from ‘idea to application’, or from ‘lab to market’). Where applicable, provide an indication of
the Technology Readiness Level, if possible distinguishing the start and by the end of the project.

Please bear in mind that advances beyond the state of the art must be interpreted in the light of
the positioning of the project. Expectations will not be the same for RIAs at lower TRL, compared
with Innovation Actions at high TRLs.

1.2 Methodology [e.g. 15 pages]

• Describe and explain the overall methodology, including the concepts, models and assumptions that
underpin your work. Explain how this will enable you to deliver your project’s objectives. Refer to any
important challenges you may have identified in the chosen methodology and how you intend to
overcome them. [e.g. 10 pages]

This section should be presented as a narrative. The detailed tasks and work packages are
described below under ‘Implementation’.

• Describe any national or international research and innovation activities whose results will feed into the
project, and how that link will be established; [e.g. 1 pages]

• Explain how expertise and methods from different disciplines will be brought together and integrated in
pursuit of your objectives. If you consider that an inter-disciplinary approach is unnecessary in the context
of the proposed work, please provide a justification. [e.g. 1/2 page]

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• For topics where the work programme indicates the need for the integration of social sciences and
humanities, show the role of these disciplines in the project or provide a justification if you consider that
these disciplines are not relevant to your proposed project. [e.g. 1/2 page]

• Describe how the gender dimension (i.e. sex and/or gender analysis) is taken into account in the project’s
research and innovation content [e.g. 1 page]. If you do not consider such a gender dimension to be
relevant in your project, please provide a justification.

Note: This section is mandatory except for topics which have been identified in the work
programme as not requiring the integration of the gender dimension into R&I content.

Remember that that this question relates to the content of the planned research and innovation
activities, and not to gender balance in the teams in charge of carrying out the project.

Sex and gender analysis refers to biological characteristics and social/cultural factors respectively.
For guidance on methods of sex / gender analysis and the issues to be taken into account, please
refer to http://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/gendered-innovations/index_en.cfm?pg=home

• Describe how appropriate open science practices are implemented as an integral part of the proposed
methodology. Show how the choice of practices and their implementation are adapted to the nature of
your work, in a way that will increase the chances of the project delivering on its objectives [e.g. 1 page] .
If you believe that none of these practices are appropriate for your project, please provide a justification
here.

Open science is an approach based on open cooperative work and systematic sharing of
knowledge and tools as early and widely as possible in the process. Open science practices include
early and open sharing of research (for example through preregistration, registered reports, pre-
prints, or crowd-sourcing); research output management; measures to ensure reproducibility of
research outputs; providing open access to research outputs (such as publications, data, software,
models, algorithms, and workflows); participation in open peer-review; and involving all relevant
knowledge actors including citizens, civil society and end users in the co-creation of R&I agendas
and contents (such as citizen science).

Please note that this question does not refer to outreach actions that may be planned as part of
communication, dissemination and exploitation activities. These aspects should instead be
described below under ‘Impact’.

• Research data management and management of other research outputs: Applicants

generating/collecting data and/or other research outputs (except for publications) during the project
must provide maximum 1 page on how the data/ research outputs will be managed in line with the FAIR
principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), addressing the following (the description
should be specific to your project): [1 page]

Types of data/research outputs (e.g. experimental, observational, images, text, numerical) and their
estimated size; if applicable, combination with, and provenance of, existing data.

Findability of data/research outputs: Types of persistent and unique identifiers (e.g. digital object
identifiers) and trusted repositories that will be used.

Accessibility of data/research outputs: IPR considerations and timeline for open access (if open
access not provided, explain why); provisions for access to restricted data for verification purposes.

Interoperability of data/research outputs: Standards, formats and vocabularies for data and

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metadata.

Reusability of data/research outputs: Licenses for data sharing and re-use (e.g. Creative Commons,
Open Data Commons); availability of tools/software/models for data generation and
validation/interpretation /re-use.

Curation and storage/preservation costs; person/team responsible for data management and
quality assurance.

Proposals selected for funding under Horizon Europe will need to develop a detailed data
management plan (DMP) for making their data/research outputs findable, accessible,
interoperable and reusable (FAIR) as a deliverable by month 6 and revised towards the end of a
project’s lifetime.

For guidance on open science practices and research data management, please refer to the
relevant section in the online manual on the Funding & Tenders Portal.

2. Impact

Impact – aspects to be taken into account.

− Credibility of the pathways to achieve the expected outcomes and impacts specified in
the work programme, and the likely scale and significance of the contributions due to
the project.
− Suitability and quality of the measures to maximise expected outcomes and impacts, as
set out in the dissemination and exploitation plan, including communication activities.

The results of your project should make a contribution to the expected outcomes set out for the work programme
topic over the medium term, and to the wider expected impacts set out in the ‘destination’ over the longer term.

In this section you should show how your project could contribute to the outcomes and impacts described in the
work programme, the likely scale and significance of this contribution, and the measures to maximise these
impacts.

2.1 Project’s pathways towards impact [e.g. 4 pages]

• Provide a narrative explaining how the project’s results are expected to make a difference in terms of
impact, beyond the immediate scope and duration of the project. The narrative should include the
components below, tailored to your project.

(a) Describe the unique contribution your project results would make towards (1) the outcomes specified
in this topic, and (2) the wider impacts, in the longer term, specified in the respective destinations in
the work programme.

Be specific, referring to the effects of your project, and not R&I in general in this field.

Include considerations on the ‘Do No Significant Harm Principle’. Is your proposal compliant with
this principle? (Not significantly harming any of the environmental objectives set out in Article 9 of
the EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy Regulation. This means that if an economic activity

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substantially contributes to one environmental objective but at the same time significantly harms
another, it will not qualify as a sustainable activity).

State the target groups that would benefit. Even if target groups are mentioned in general terms
in the work programme, you should be specific here, breaking target groups into particular
interest groups or segments of society relevant to this project.

The outcomes and impacts of your project may be in terms of:

• Scientific, e.g. contributing to specific scientific advances, across and within disciplines,
creating new knowledge, reinforcing scientific equipment and instruments, computing
systems (i.e. research infrastructures);

• Economic/technological, e.g. bringing new products, services, business processes to the

market, increasing efficiency, decreasing costs, increasing profits, contributing to
standards’ setting, etc.

• Societal , e.g. decreasing CO2 emissions, decreasing avoidable mortality, improving policies
and decision making, raising consumer awareness.

Only include such outcomes and impacts where your project would make a significant and direct
contribution. Avoid describing very tenuous links to wider impacts.

(b) Describe any requirements and potential barriers - arising from factors beyond the scope and
duration of the project - that may determine whether the desired outcomes and impacts are
achieved. These may include, for example, other R&I work within and beyond Horizon Europe;
regulatory environment; targeted markets; user behaviour. Indicate if these factors might evolve over
time. Describe any mitigating measures you propose, within or beyond your project, that could be
needed should your assumptions prove to be wrong, or to address identified barriers.

Note that this does not include the critical risks inherent to the management of the proect itself ,
which should be described below under ‘Implementation’.

(c) Give an indication of the scale and significance of the project’s contribution to the expected
outcomes and impacts, should the project be successful. Provide quantified estimates where possible
and meaningful.

‘Scale’ refers to how widespread the outcomes and impacts are likely to be. For example, in terms
of the size of the target group, or the proportion of that group, that should benefit over time;
‘Significance’ refers to the importance, or value, of those benefits. For example, number of
additional healthy life years; efficiency savings in energy supply.

Explain your baselines, benchmarks and assumptions used for those estimates. Wherever possible,
quantify your estimation of the effects that you expect from your project. Explain assumptions that
you make, referring for example to any relevant studies or statistics. Where appropriate, try to use
only one methodology for calculating your estimates: not different methodologies for each
partner, region or country (the extrapolation should preferably be prepared by one partner).

Your estimate must relate to this project only - the effect of other initiatives should not be taken
into account.

2.2 Measures to maximise impact - Dissemination, exploitation and communication [e.g. 5 pages]

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• Describe the planned measures to maximise the impact of your project by providing a first version of your
‘plan for the dissemination and exploitation including communication activities’. Describe the
dissemination, exploitation and communication measures that are planned, and the target group(s)
addressed (e.g. scientific community, end users, financial actors, public at large).

Please remember that this plan is an admissibility condition, unless the work programme topic
explicitly states otherwise. In case your proposal is selected for funding, a more detailed ‘plan for
dissemination and exploitation including communication activities’ will need to be provided as a
mandatory project deliverable within 6 months after signature date. This plan shall be periodically
updated in alignment with the project’s progress.

[Guidance and examples of possible dissemination & exploitation measures]

Communication5,6 measures should promote the project throughout the full lifespan of the project.
The aim is to inform and reach out to society and show the activities performed, and the use and
the benefits the project will have for citizens. Activities must be strategically planned, with clear
objectives, start at the outset and continue through the lifetime of the project. The description of
the communication activities needs to state the main messages as well as the tools and channels
that will be used to reach out to each of the chosen target groups.

All measures should be proportionate to the scale of the project, and should contain concrete
actions to be implemented both during and after the end of the project, e.g. standardisation
activities. Your plan should give due consideration to the possible follow-up of your project, once it
is finished. In the justification, explain why each measure chosen is best suited to reach the target
group addressed. Where relevant, and for innovation actions, in particular, describe the measures
for a plausible path to commercialise the innovations.

If exploitation is expected primarily in non-associated third countries, justify by explaining how

that exploitation is still in the Union’s interest.

Describe possible feedback to policy measures generated by the project that will contribute to
designing, monitoring, reviewing and rectifying (if necessary) existing policy and programmatic
measures or shaping and supporting the implementation of new policy initiatives and decisions.

• Outline your strategy for the management of intellectual property, foreseen protection measures, such as
patents, design rights, copyright, trade secrets, etc., and how these would be used to support
exploitation.

If your project is selected, you will need an appropriate consortium agreement to manage
(amongst other things) the ownership and access to key knowledge (IPR, research data etc.).
Where relevant, these will allow you, collectively and individually, to pursue market opportunities
arising from the project.

If your project is selected, you must indicate the owner(s) of the results (results ownership list) in
the final periodic report.

5
See participant portal FAQ on how to address communication activities
6
For further guidance on communicating EU research and innovation f6 See participant portal FAQ on how to address communication activities
6
For further guidance on communicating EU research and innovation for project participants, please refer to the Online Manual on the Funding & Tenders
Portal.or project participants, please refer to the Online Manual on the Funding & Tenders Portal.

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2.3 Summary

Provide a summary of this section by presenting in the canvas below the key elements of your project impact pathway and of the measures to maximise its
impact.

KEY ELEMENT OF THE IMPACT SECTION

SPECIFIC NEEDS EXPECTED RESULTS D & E & C MEASURES
What are the specific needs that What do you expect to generate by the What dissemination, exploitation and communication measures will you
triggered this project? end of the project? apply to the results?

Example 1 Example 1Successful large-scale Example 1

Most airports use process flow-oriented demonstrator: Exploitation: Patenting the algorithmic model.
models based on static mathematical Successful large-scale demonstrator:
values limiting the optimal management Trial with 3 airports of an advanced Dissemination towards the scientific community and airports: Scientific
of passenger flow and hampering the forecasting system for proactive airport publication with the results of the large-scale demonstration.
accurate use of the available resources passenger flow management.
to the actual demand of passengers. Communication towards citizens: An event in a shopping mall to show how
Algorithmic model: the outcomes of the action are relevant to our everyday lives.
Example 2 Novel algorithmic model for proactive
Electronic components need to get airport passenger flow management. Example 2
smaller and lighter to match the Exploitation of the new product: Patenting the new product;
expectations of the end-users. At the Example 2 Licencing to major electronic companies.
same time there is a problem of sourcing Publication of a scientific discovery on
of raw materials that has an transparent electronics. Dissemination towards the scientific community and industry:
environmental impact. Participating at conferences; Developing a platform of material
New product: More sustainable compositions for industry; Participation at EC project portfolios to
electronic circuits. disseminate the results as part of a group and maximise the visibility vis-à-
vis companies.
Three PhD students trained.

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TARGET GROUPS OUTCOMES IMPACTS
Who will use or further up-take the results What change do you expect to see after successful What are the expected wider scientific, economic and
of the project? Who will benefit from the dissemination and exploitation of project results to the societal effects of the project contributing to the expected
results of the project? target group(s)? impacts outlined in the respective destination in the work
programme?
Example 1 Example 1
9 European airports: Up-take by airports: 9 European airports adopt the Example 1
Schiphol, Brussels airport, etc. advanced forecasting system demonstrated during the Scientific: New breakthrough scientific discovery on
project. passenger forecast modelling.
The European Union aviation safety
agency. Example 2 Economic: Increased airport efficiency
High use of the scientific discovery published (measured Size: 15% increase of maximum passenger capacity in
Air passengers (indirect). with the relative rate of citation index of project European airports, leading to a 28% reduction in
publications). infrastructure expansion costs.
Example 2
End-users: consumers of electronic A major electronic company (Samsung or Apple) Example 2
devices. exploits/uses the new product in their manufacturing. Scientific: New breakthrough scientific discovery on
transparent electronics.
Major electronic companies: Samsung,
Apple, etc. Economic/Technological: A new market for touch
enabled electronic devices.
Scientific community (field of transparent
electronics). Societal: Lower climate impact of electronics
manufacturing (including through material sourcing and
waste management).

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3. Quality and efficiency of the implementation

Award criteria – aspects to be taken into account

‒ Quality and effectiveness of the work plan, assessment of risks, and appropriateness of the
effort assigned to work packages, and the resources overall

‒ Capacity and role of each participant, and extent to which the consortium as a whole brings
together the necessary expertise.

3.1 Work plan and resources [e.g. 14 pages – including tables]

Please provide the following:

• brief presentation of the overall structure of the work plan;

• timing of the different work packages and their components (Gantt chart or similar);

• graphical presentation of the components showing how they inter-relate (Pert chart or similar).

• detailed work description, i.e.:

o a list of work packages (table 3.1a);

o a description of each work package (table 3.1b);

o a list of deliverables (table 3.1c);

Give full details. Base your account on the logical structure of the project and the stages in
which it is to be carried out. The number of work packages should be proportionate to the
scale and complexity of the project.

You should give enough detail in each work package to justify the proposed resources to
be allocated and also quantified information so that progress can be monitored, including
by the Commission

Resources assigned to work packages should be in line with their objectives and
deliverables. You are advised to include a distinct work package on ‘project management’,
and to give due visibility in the work plan to ‘data management’ ‘dissemination and
exploitation’ and ‘communication activities’, either with distinct tasks or distinct work
packages.

You will be required to update the ‘plan for the dissemination and exploitation of results
including communication activities’, and a ‘data management plan’, (this does not apply
to topics where a plan was not required.) This should include a record of activities related
to dissemination and exploitation that have been undertaken and those still planned.

Please make sure the information in this section matches the costs as stated in the budget
table in section 3 of the application forms, and the number of person months, shown in
the detailed work package descriptions.

• a list of milestones (table 3.1d).

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• a list of critical risks, relating to project implementation, that the stated project's objectives may not be
achieved. Detail any risk mitigation measures. You will be able to update the list of critical risks and
mitigation measures as the project progresses (table 3.1e).

• a table showing number of person months required (table 3.1f)

• a table showing description and justification of subcontracting costs for each participant (table 3.1g)

• a table showing justifications for ‘purchase costs’ (table 3.1h) for participants where those costs exceed
XX% of the personnel costs (according to the budget table in proposal part A)

• if applicable, a table showing justifications for ‘other costs categories’ (table 3.1i)

3.2 Capacity of participants and consortium as a whole [e.g. 3 pages]

The individual members of the consortium are described in a separate section under Part A. There is no need to
repeat that information here.

• Describe the consortium. How does it match the project’s objectives, and bring together the necessary
disciplinary and inter-disciplinary knowledge. Show how this includes expertise in social sciences and
humanities, open science practices, and gender aspects of R&I, as appropriate.

• Show how the partners will have access to critical infrastructure needed to carry out the project activities.

• Describe how the members complement one another (and cover the value chain, where appropriate)

• In what way does each of them contribute to the project? Show that each has a valid role, and adequate
resources in the project to fulfil that role.

• If applicable, describe the industrial/commercial involvement in the project to ensure exploitation of the
results and explain why this is consistent with and will help to achieve the specific measures which are
proposed for exploitation of the results of the project (see section 2.2).

• Other countries and international organisations: If one or more of the participants requesting EU funding
is based in a country or is an international organisation that is not automatically eligible for such funding
(entities from Member States of the EU, from Associated Countries and from one of the countries in the
exhaustive list included in the Work Programme General Annexes section A are automatically eligible for
EU funding), explain why the participation of the entity in question is essential to successfully carry out
the project.

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Tables for section 3.1

Table 3.1a: List of work packages

Work Work Lead Lead Person- Start End

package Package Participant Participant Months Month month
No Title No Short Name

Total
person-
months

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Table 3.1b: Work package description

For each work package:

Work package number Lead beneficiary
Work package title
Participant number

Short name of participant

Person months per participant:

Start month End

month

Objectives

Description of work (where appropriate, broken down into tasks), lead partner and role of participants

Deliverables (brief description and month of delivery)

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Table 3.1c: List of Deliverables7

Only include deliverables that you consider essential for effective project monitoring.

Delivery
Work Short name
Deliverable Deliverable Dissemination date
package of lead Type
(number) name participant level (in
number
months)

KEY
Deliverable numbers in order of delivery dates. Please use the numbering convention <WP number>.<number of
deliverable within that WP>. For example, deliverable 4.2 would be the second deliverable from work package 4.

Type:
Use one of the following codes:
R: Document, report (excluding the periodic and final reports)
DEM: Demonstrator, pilot, prototype, plan designs
DEC: Websites, patents filing, press & media actions, videos, etc.
DATA: Data sets, microdata, etc.
DMP: Data management plan
ETHICS: Deliverables related to ethics issues.
SECURITY: Deliverables related to security issues
OTHER: Software, technical diagram, algorithms, models, etc.

Dissemination level:
Use one of the following codes:
PU – Public, fully open, e.g. web (Deliverables flagged as public will be automatically published in CORDIS
project’s page)
SEN – Sensitive, limited under the conditions of the Grant Agreement
Classified R-UE/EU-R – EU RESTRICTED under the Commission Decision No2015/444
Classified C-UE/EU-C – EU CONFIDENTIAL under the Commission Decision No2015/444
Classified S-UE/EU-S – EU SECRET under the Commission Decision No2015/444

Delivery date
Measured in months from the project start date (month 1)

7
You must include a data management plan (DMP) and a ‘plan for dissemination and exploitation including communication
activities as distinct deliverables within the first 6 months of the project. The DMP will evolve during the lifetime of the
project in order to present the status of the project's reflections on data management. A template for such a plan is
available in the Online Manual on the Funding & Tenders Portal.

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Table 3.1d: List of milestones
Milestone Milestone Related work Due date (in month) Means of
number name package(s) verification

KEY
Due date
Measured in months from the project start date (month 1)

Means of verification
Show how you will confirm that the milestone has been attained. Refer to indicators if appropriate. For example: a
laboratory prototype that is ‘up and running’; software released and validated by a user group; field survey
complete and data quality validated.

Table 3.1e: Critical risks for implementation

Description of risk (indicate level of (i) Work package(s) Proposed risk-mitigation
likelihood, and (ii) severity: involved measures
Low/Medium/High)

Definition critical risk:

A critical risk is a plausible event or issue that could have a high adverse impact on the ability of the project to
achieve its objectives.

Level of likelihood to occur: Low/medium/high

The likelihood is the estimated probability that the risk will materialise even after taking account of the mitigating
measures put in place.

Level of severity: Low/medium/high

The relative seriousness of the risk and the significance of its effect.

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Table 3.1f: Summary of staff effort
Please indicate the number of person/months over the whole duration of the planned work, for each work
package, for each participant. Identify the work-package leader for each WP by showing the relevant person-
month figure in bold.

WPn WPn+1 WPn+2 Total Person-

Months per Participant
Participant
Number/Short Name
ParticipantNumber/
Short Name
Participant Number/
Short Name
Total Person Months

Table 3.1g: ‘Subcontracting costs’ items

For each participant describe and justify the tasks to be subcontracted (please note that core tasks of the project
should not be sub-contracted).

Participant Number/Short Name

Cost (€) Description of tasks and justification
Subcontracting

Table 3.1h: ‘Purchase costs’ items (travel and subsistence, equipment and other goods, works and services)
and ‘Other costs categories’ items (e.g. internally invoiced goods and services)

Please complete the table below for each participant if the sum of the costs for ’trave and subsistencel’,
‘equipment’, and ‘other goods, works and services’ exceeds XX% of the personnel costs for that participant
(according to the budget table in proposal part A). The record must list the largest cost items down to the level
that the remaining, costs are below XX% of personnel costs.

Participant Number/Short Name

Cost (€) Justification
Travel and subsistence
Equipment
Other goods, works and
services
Remaining purchase
costs (<xx% of pers.
Costs)
Total

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Table 3.1i: ‘Other costs categories’ items (e.g. internally invoiced goods and services)

Please complete the table below for each participants that would like to declare costs under other costs
categories (i.e. internally invoiced goods and services), irrespective of the percentage of personnel costs.

Participant Number/Short Name

Cost (€) Justification
Internally invoiced
goods and services

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STANDARD MODULAR EXTENSION OF PROPOSAL TEMPLATE:

1. FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THIRD PARTIES

• PART A: No additions
• PART B: Add an additional annex with information on financial support to third paries

Financial support to third parties

For more information on terms and conditions: see Work Programme General Annexes section B
and Horizon Europe Model Grant Agreement Articles 6.2.D.1 and 9.4

[OPTION financial support in the form of a grant:

Financial support in the form of a grant awarded after a call for proposals

Where this possibility is indicated under the relevant topic in the Work Programme and in the
relevant calls for proposals, provide a description of the use of financial support to third parties.
This description must address at least the following:
1. clearly detail the objectives and the results to be obtained and
2. contain the following specifications (as a minimum):
a) the maximum amount of financial support for each third party; this amount may not
exceed 60 000 EUR, unless explicitly mentioned in the work programme topic
b) the criteria for calculating the exact amount of the financial support
c) the different types of activity that qualify for financial support, on the basis of a closed list
d) the persons or categories of persons that may receive financial support, and
e) the criteria for giving financial support
Please check in the Work Programme and call for proposals if there are other conditions that apply
and, if so, include them in the specifications or in any other element of the proposal as appropriate.
]

[OPTION financial support in the form of a prize:

Financial support in the form of a prize

Where this possibility is indicated under the relevant topic in the Work Programme, provide a
description of the use of financial support to third parties. This description must address at least
the following:
1. clearly detail the objectives and the results to be obtained and
2. contain the following specifications (as a minimum):
a) the eligibility and award criteria
b) the amount of the prize and
c) the payment arrangements.
Please check in the Work Programme and the call for proposals if the are other conditions that
apply and, if so, include them in the specifications or in any other element of the proposal as

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appropriate.
]

2. CLINICAL TRIALS
• PART A: Additional question
• PART B: Add an additional annex with information on clinical trials (link to H2020 template)

3. CALLS FLAGGED AS SECURITY SENSITIVE

• PART A: No additions
• Part B: Add an additional annex with information on security

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