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Horizon Europe MSCA – Grants & reporting

Your grant agreement

The grant agreement defines the work that you commit to carry out during your EU-funded project. It is based on your successful proposal.  

The grant agreement lists the project partners (beneficiaries, associated partners, etc.) and specifies your project activities, the duration, budget, EU contribution, and rights and obligations. You can find a detailed explanation in the Horizon Europe annotated model grant agreement.

For each project, there is a project officer at the REA who accompanies the beneficiary / consortium throughout the project’s implementation. If you are a project coordinator, the project officer is your main contact for any matters regarding your grant agreement and reporting on your project implementation. For multi-beneficiary grants, the project coordinator acts on behalf of the consortium and steers the project activities. You can contact your project officer through your profile in the Funding & tenders Portal.  

Coordinators’ Days

At the start of your project, a Coordinators’ Day may be organised for your action. The REA organises these events for most of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, with the aim to help new project coordinators/beneficiaries manage their grants and to understand their rights and obligations. The Coordinators’ Days are also an opportunity for you to build first contacts with other project teams working on similar topics. For Postdoctoral Fellowships, info days for researchers may also be organised.

Reporting

On behalf of the project consortium, the project coordinator submits all reports, payment requests, deliverables and other documents through the grant management service. You can access the service through your profile in the Funding & tenders Portal.  

You will find general information on grant management and reporting in the Funding & tenders online manual. For any specific questions, please contact your project officer

Amendments to the grant agreement

In some cases, it might be necessary to amend your grant agreement, for example, if changes are needed for a successful project implementation. In these cases, the project coordinator submits a request through the Funding & tenders Portal’s grant management service. Both the beneficiaries and the REA sign the amendment electronically. 

In the Funding & Tenders Opportunities online manual, you will find an overview of when and how you can request an amendment.  Before launching your amendment request, discuss it with your project officer.

Guidance on rights and obligations

Communication and data protection 

Dissemination and exploitation of results

Frequently Asked Questions on Horizon Europe grant management

EU Guidelines on the responsible use of generative AI in research

Section for project coordinators, beneficiaries and MSCA researchers

Important information and documents related to the management of your grant.

COVID related information

 

  • Results of the MSCA COVID-19 survey launched by the REA in January 2021
  • More COVID-19 related information

For project coordinators or project beneficiaries

This section provides information to help you manage your project. For specific documents, please consult the respective section related to your type of project:

All MSCA actions – Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 related information

IMPORTANT!

Please remind your recruited researchers/seconded staff members at the end of their fellowship to fill in the following two documents, in line with the grant agreement:

Horizon Europe projects:

  1. Evaluation questionnaire for MSCA fellows  - upon completion of their fellowship
  2. Follow-up questionnaire for MSCA fellows   - 2 years after the end of their fellowship

Horizon 2020 projects:

  1. Evaluation questionnaire for MSCA fellows  - upon completion of their fellowship
  2. Follow-up questionnaire for MSCA fellows   - 2 years after the end of their fellowship

Horizon Europe – Doctoral Networks (DN) and former Horizon 2020 Innovative Training Networks (ITN)

Horizon Europe – Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) and former Horizon 2020 Individual Fellowships (IF)

Horizon Europe – Staff Exchanges (SE) and former Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Staff Exchanges (RISE)

Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 – COFUND

Horizon Europe – MSCA and Citizens

  • MSCA and Citizens 2021 Information day for applicants - presentations 

For MSCA researchers

All MSCA actions – Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020:

MSCA evaluation questionnaires:

Horizon Europe projects:

  1. Evaluation questionnaire for MSCA fellows  - upon completion of their fellowship
  2. Follow-up questionnaire for MSCA fellows   - 2 years after the end of their fellowship

Horizon 2020 projects:

  1. Evaluation questionnaire for MSCA fellows  - upon completion of their fellowship
  2. Follow-up questionnaire for MSCA fellows   - 2 years after the end of their fellowship

Horizon Europe – Doctoral Networks (DN) and former Horizon 2020 Innovative Training Networks (ITN)

Horizon Europe – Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) and former Horizon 2020 Individual Fellowships (IF)

Horizon Europe – Staff Exchanges (SE) and former Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Staff Exchanges (RISE)

Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 – COFUND

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship Certificate

Fellows who have completed a research period as part of one of the FP7 or Horizon Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions may request a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship Certificate (the Certificate). Read more.