How to write effective EU proposals for Horizon 2020

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If you write - or plan to write - a proposal for the EU Horizon 2020 programme you need to know how to:

Network and make yourself a natural partner for a proposal.
Apply successful partner search strategies and tactics.
Establish trust and build a consortium.
Write the proposal.
Follow the EU procedure precisely and exactly.
Review and improve your proposal before submission.
Submit and follow up.

Effective EU proposals for Horizon 2020

The Horizon 2020 book describes these steps beyond the technical requirements and focuses on the lesser known - but essential - social and procedural factors. The book shows you how to optimize and streamline your networking and proposal processes to increase the chance of getting EU funding.

The main benefits of the book are:

Actionable knowledge to start networking, getting ideas, forming a partnership and writing proposals for Horizon 2020.
A step by step process to increase your chances of funding by guiding you through the often neglected areas of partner search, proposal positioning through excellence and urgency, and proposal writing for impact.
You'll gain confidence to manage your way to EU funding, weed out bad proposals and join successful networks.
Effective EU proposals for Horizon 2020 require learning. Read the book to help you get started in learning and evaluating other Horizon 2020 knowledge sources.

The chapters of the book are:

1 Introduction 2 Background and Structure of Horizon 2020 3 Getting Started with Horizon 2020 4 Developing Successful Ideas 5 Networking for Horizon 2020 6 How to Find and Evaluate Partners 7 How to Form a Consortium 8 Getting Started with a Proposal 9 How Proposals are Evaluated 10 Writing a Proposal 11 Marketing and Submitting Your Proposal 12 Odds and Ends: Rules, Administration and Support 13 Additional Information Sources Index

Interested? The book is available through Amazon in the EU.

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"What I liked a lot is that you made the concept of EU proposal more accessible for us. I can now see myself in the near future start planning/writing for a EU proposal, where before it was not even on my radar."

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News

2018-12-17: Funding & Tenders Portal replaces Participant Portal

2018-06-15: Horizon Europe - The follow-up to Horizon 2020

2017-09-14: Learning opportunity: The Horizon 2020 Summit

2017-09-12: NPS Feedback for the book on Horizon 2020

2017-03-21: Horizon 2020 already tops # of funding applications in FP7

2016-03-08: Horizon 2020 Survey results could help starters write better proposals

2016-01-25: Horizon 2020 Funding Rates

2015-09-28: What are the success rates for proposals in Horizon 2020?

2015-09-01: Horizon 2020 Evaluation Criteria Changes

2015-08-25: Horizon 2020: Updating call templates

2015-08-17: Changing FAQs in Horizon 2020 calls - don't be surprised