Help center · Part 3: Application
How the application steps work
The three parts at the top of the page, the colours of the steps and why every step is always open.
The application follows the official application form of the call. The number of steps therefore depends on the call: for a Horizon Europe or the part Application has 11 steps (steps 4 to 14); other forms have more or fewer, because has a different number of chapters. The top of the page always shows the steps of your call, for example Step 5 of 14.
The steps of an application
- Calls that fit your project (step 3): pick the call. See Assess and compare calls.
- Set up your application: the application form and the people who work on the application with you. See Set up your application.
- Structure and budget and Partners together make : who does what, for how much.
- Additional project details: one document with ten sections that add detail for Part B. See Additional project details.
- The chapters of Part B, for example Excellence, Impact and Implementation in Horizon Europe: the proposal text the evaluators score.
- Financing plan: costs per partner and year.
- Consistency check: an AI assistant reads the whole application for points that do not fit together.
- Annexes: documents and the remaining requirements of the call.
- Final check and submission, the last step: download, submit on the EU portal and record the submission.
Finding your way
- The line above the bar of the current part shows the step you are on, for example Step 6 of 14 · Part A · Partners. Each segment of the bar is one step: green when it is done, yellow when something is still open, white when it is not started.
- All steps in this part opens the list of all steps with their state; click a step to open it.
- When you assess your project against a call, the portal checks which steps the call does not need (for example, partners when only one applicant can apply) and marks them Not needed for this call. Such a step does not hold you back.
- At the bottom of every step, Back takes you to the previous step and the button on the right takes you on. Some buttons name the step they lead to, for example Next: Structure and budget.
Every step is always open. You can jump back to change something and forward to look ahead; nothing is locked.
When something in the current step is still open, the box Before you continue at the bottom lists it, with Fix to go to the place where you fix it.
