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Lump Sum &
Unit Costs

(2024)

Lump Sum in HE (EC)
Lump Sum Guidance (EC)
Lump Sum Events (EC)
Topics opened in HE with lump sum funding model
Lump sum grants in Horizon Europe (EC) [PDF]
How to manage your lump sum grants. Lump sum proposal submission, evaluation and grant management in EU programmes (EC) [PDF]
Lump Sum funding: What do I need to know? A guide for participants (EC) [PDF]
Model Grant Agreement (MGA) - Lump Sum (EC) [PDF]
Lump Sum Funding in Horizon Europe: How does it work? How to write a proposal? (EC) [YouTube, 2h]
Horizon dashboard for lump sum evaluations (EC)
Average personnel costs - for lump sum budgets (EC)
Review of the MSCA lump sum and unit contributions - Executive summary (EC)
Decision on unit costs for HE and Euratom personnel unit costs (EC) [PDF]
Personnel Unit Costs - Funding and Tenders Portal (EC)
Personnel Unit Cost – New cost method in Horizon Europe (EC) [YouTube, 1h]

Proposal template forms*

(2024-2025)

* Please note that these forms are for general information purposes. You MUST download the form appropriate to the call from the portal Funding&Tenders.

Research & Innovation Action - RIA, IA
Coordinated and Support Action - CSA
MSCA Doctoral Networks - DN
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship - PF
MSCA Staff Exchange - SE
ERC Starting Grant -STG
ERC Advanced Grant - ADG
ERC Consolidator Grant - COG
ERC Proof of Concept - POC
ERC Synergy Grant - SYG
EIC STEP Scale Up
EIC Pathfinder Open
EIC Pathfinder Challenges
EIC Transition
EIC Accelerator – Short proposal
EIC Accelerator - Full proposal

Consortium agreement template

DESCA Horizon Europe 2.0 ( August 2025)
DESCA Model Consortium Agreement (2024)

(2025)

HE Reference documents

(2024-2026)

Horizon Europe strategic plan 2025-2027
HEu Programme Guide
Horizon Europe Work programme (2026-2027) - General introduction
Horizon Europe Work programme (2026-2027) - Horizontal Activities
Horizon Europe Work programme (2026-2027) - General Annexes
HEu Work Programmes 2026-2027
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) - Work Programme 2026
HEU Proposal evaluation. Standard Briefing (2025)
HEu Model Grant Agreement (MGA)
HEu Unit Model Grant Agreement (MGA) (for MSCA)
HEu MSCA Financial Guide
HEu Annotated Grant Agreement (AGA)
Personnel costs – employees in Horizon Europe projects
Lump Sum MGA
HEu List of eligible countries (Dec. 2023) (see also EC Useful links - Association of Third Countries to HEu)
HEu Online Manual
EIC_STEP_Investor_Pre-commitment_template
EIC-Transition_List_of_eligible_projects_2025

HE Guides for applicants

(2024-2025)

EIC Pathfinder Challenges Guides 2026
EIC Accelerator Guide for Applicants 2026
EIC Accelerator Challenges Guides 2026
EIC STEP Scale Up – Submission Guidance (Part A)
EIC Fund Investment Guidelines 2024
MSCA Guidelines on Supervision
Information package for Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows
MSCA Information package for Postdoctoral Fellows
MSCA Information package for Doctoral Fellows
MSCA Information package for Staff Exchanges staff members

EC Policies

(2024-2025)

European Charter for Researchers (2025)
Integration of social sciences and humanities in Horizon Europe - Publications Office of the EU
European Innovation Scoreboard 2025
ERA Country Report 2024 Romania
MSCA Green Charter (update 2025)
To what extent are widening countries part of knowledge networks formed by the framework programmes?
Report of the 2024 High Level Workshop on the European Research Area
Align, act, accelerate. Research, technology and innovation to boost European competitiveness (report)
European Research Area Platform
Knowledge Valorisation Platform

ResearchComp: The European Competence Framework for Researchers
Living guidelines on the responsible use of generative AI in research
Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) Regulation (EU) 2024/795
Guidance Note concerning STEP Regulation
European Democracy Action Plan
Defence of Democracy Package
EU Action Plan on Democracy and Human rights – 2020-2024
EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
Gender Equality Strategy (2020-2025)
European Pillar of Social Rights and its Action Plan
ERA policy agenda 2022-2024
ERA Industrial Technology Roadmap for Low-Carbon
ERA Monitoring 2023
Technologies in energy-intensive industries
New European Innovation Agenda (overview) - 2022
Guiding principles for knowledge valorisation - 2022
Knowledge ecosystems - 2022
Pact for Research and Innovation in Europe - 2021
European Cultural Heritage - Building our Future from the Past
Stakeholders’ survey on a European collaborative cloud for cultural heritage
CORDIS Results Pack on digital cultural heritage
Heritage at Risk: EU research and innovation for a more resilient cultural heritage
European Year of Skills in 2023
European Education Area
European Care Strategy for caregivers and care receivers
Strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities 2021-2030
Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027
Going Digital means Skilling for Digital

EC Useful links

(December 2023)

United Kingdom joins Horizon Europe programme (Dec. 2023)
Association of Third Countries to Horizon Europe (Dec. 2022)
Q&A on the UK's participation in Horizon Europe (EC)

EC Resources Policies, guides, documents, links

Lump Sum & Unit Costs

Review of the MSCA lump sum and unit contributions - Executive summary (EC)

Proposal template forms*

Consortium agreement template

HE Reference documents

HE Guides for applicants

EC Policies

EC Useful links

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Lump Sum &
Unit Costs