Writing a winning Horizon 2020 proposal is not an easy job. Especially because you have to collaborate with people from different organisations and countries and deliver an excellent proposal if you want to get funded!

Maybe you think that research is a very technical or complicated discipline. Yes, it is! However, since I started working with research projects, I’ve realised that exactly the same communication rules apply here as in shoes, cosmetics or insurance. Basically, if you want your organisation or project to succeed, you have to think as methodically as possible.

Being involved in the Horizon 2020 projects had opened a lot of new opportunities for our Small and Medium Enterprise (SME). Since being introduced to the EU funding programmes, we have realised that there are many diverse opportunities for the development and innovation of many different organisations in Europe and elsewhere in the world.