A template is available for the certification body, which is regularly updated. There are also other models for CAs, but they mostly cover the same details. It contains the governance of your project, the number of meetings and the establishment of minutes, and especially the management of intellectual property. It is also very important that you can make agreements on payments to partners within the consortium and describe what to do with a defaulting partner. The consortium agreement is the agreement within the consortium partners and does not concern the EC. In this agreement, you determine the information you have decided within your consortium. Make no mistake, preparations for the grant agreement may fail, even if it is in the best interest of the EC and the consortium to conclude it. Also remember that every hour spent before the start of the project is not eligible. At your convenience, the European Commission has published an commented grant agreement comprising a 730-page reading that contains a description of all the articles of the General Assembly. Before launching your Horizon Europe multi-partner project, two agreements must be prepared and signed: the grant agreement and the consortium agreement. In this resource, we describe the differences and give some tips and tricks when preparing.

ttopstart can help you prepare the grant agreement and all the logistics all around. We can also help you manage your projects or help you with our modular services in technical and financial reports. Contact us by filling out the form below and see how we can help you. The grant agreement is the contract concluded between the coordinator and the beneficiaries (if necessary not in a single partner project) and the European Commission. After examining your proposal and a positive evaluation, the European Commission invites you to prepare the Grant Agreement (GA). The coordinator must provide the inputs and text to the GA, which is based on the written proposal. The CE does not allow many changes and the changes you make are documented in the „Version Control“ table at the beginning of the narrative part. The GA consists of Part A, the data you fill in on the portal and a Part B which is the rest of the proposal text minus the text you insert into the portal. The EC has strict deadlines for the GA process and good communication with your EC project manager is recommended for an efficient workflow. The EU, EEA and associated countries all contribute to H2020. The ERC Scientific Council has just communicated the preliminary planning.

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