The European Commission has published generalised feedback with tips for applicants submitting proposals to the 2024 two-stage Health calls of Horizon Europe.
To ensure equal treatment, applicants successful at stage one of the evaluation process do not receive the evaluation summary reports (ESRs) for their proposals; instead, general information and tips for preparing the full proposal for the deadline in April are now available on the Funding & Tenders Portal, under the “Topic updates” section of each call topic page, for instance:
- The proposals should address all the individual sub-criteria in each appropriate section of the proposal (Excellence, Impact, Implementation). For example, the state of the art should be clearly referenced, the methodology and – where relevant – the technical robustness of AI should be clearly described, the pathways to the expected outcomes and impacts, the scale and significance of the project’s contributions to the expected outcomes, and all other aspects need to be addressed.
- To optimise synergies and increase the impact of the projects, all projects selected for funding from this topic will form a cluster and be required to participate in common networking and joint activities. Without the prerequisite to detail concrete joint activities, proposals should allocate a sufficient budget for the attendance to regular joint meetings and to cover the costs of any other potential common networking and joint activities.
- If your proposal contains clinical studies, please read carefully the definition and guidance on the template ‘Information on clinical studies’ published on the call page in the Participant Portal (Information on clinical studies (HE)) and remember to upload the filled-in template when submitting your proposal.
- If in stage 2 the eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum contribution, to get started, please read the relevant guidance related to lump sum funding in Horizon Europe, with details on how to complete the Excel workbook. Recommended: Excel 2013 (Windows) / Excel 2016 (Mac OS) or more recent.
- Please bear in mind that your full proposal will now be evaluated more in-depth and possibly by a new group of external experts.
- Please make sure that your full proposal is consistent with your short outline proposal. It may NOT differ substantially. The project must stay the same.