Anna Lackner, Author at Nexuswelt

EU project deliverables and reporting, including milestones, reporting timelines and the Funding and Tenders Portal

28 Sep. 26

EU Project Deliverables and Reporting: What You Actually Have to Produce

Anna Lackner

Munich, 28 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group Almost everything written about EU funding stops at the moment of award. What happens afterwards – what you have to produce, when, in what system, and who submits it – is learned by most partners in the week before the first deadline. It…

Finding European partners for non-EU companies through Horizon Europe networks, partner search channels and consortium building Filename: finding-european-partners-non-eu-companies-banner.jpg

25 Sep. 26

Finding European Partners: A Step-by-Step Guide for Non-EU Companies

Anna Lackner

Munich, 25 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group If your country is associated to Horizon Europe, the eligibility question is settled and the access question is not. European consortia form through networks, months before a call is published, and those networks are geographically concentrated in ways that have nothing to do…

Horizon Europe success rates illustrated as a mountain path from topic selection to stronger impact

23 Sep. 26

Horizon Europe Success Rates: Realistic Odds and What Actually Improves Them

Anna Lackner

Munich, 23 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group The honest headline is that roughly one proposal in seven is funded. The more useful answer is that the average is close to meaningless, because the range behind it runs from around 3% to around 25% depending on which topic you choose –…

EU grants versus venture capital for startups and deep-tech companies

21 Sep. 26

EU Grants vs Venture Capital: Which Fits Your Startup, and Can You Combine Them?

Anna Lackner

Munich, 21 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group Founders usually frame this as a choice, and investors sometimes encourage that framing. It is the wrong frame. Grants and venture capital are not substitutes – they buy different things, arrive on different timelines and carry different costs, and the strongest deep-tech companies…

FP10 Horizon Europe 2028–2034 and European Competitiveness Fund strategy

18 Sep. 26

FP10: What the Next EU Framework Programme Means for Your Long-Term Strategy

Anna Lackner

Munich, 18 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group The next Framework Programme starts on 1 January 2028. That sounds distant until you work backwards: consortia for the first calls will form during 2027, positioning for those consortia happens in 2026, and the strategic decisions that determine whether you are in the…

Coordinator running a multi-partner EU project consortium meeting

16 Sep. 26

Managing a Multi-Partner Consortium: What Coordinators Get Wrong in Year One

Anna Lackner

Munich, 16 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group Almost every problem that surfaces at a mid-term review was created in the first twelve months. Not by anything dramatic – by a cadence that never got established, a partner who went quiet in month four, a consortium agreement nobody read after signing,…

Technology Readiness Levels TRL 1–9 from basic research to proven operation

14 Sep. 26

Technology Readiness Levels Explained: TRL 1–9 with Real Examples

Anna Lackner

Munich, 14 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group TRL is the coordinate the whole European funding system runs on. It determines which instruments are open to you, how a call topic is scoped, and what an evaluator expects to see as evidence. Get it right and the shortlist of relevant instruments…

Ukrainian deep-tech startup team preparing an EIC funding application

11 Sep. 26

How Ukrainian Startups Can Access EU Funding

Anna Lackner

Most guidance on EU funding for Ukraine is written for universities and research institutes, and a startup reading it concludes — reasonably — that this is a system built for someone else. It is not, and Ukrainian startups have one structural advantage that startups in Canada, South Korea, New Zealand…

09 Sep. 26

Horizon-Europe-Partnerprofil: So überzeugen Sie Koordinatoren

Anna Lackner

München, 9. September 2026 · Nexuswelt-Gruppe Ein „Horizon Europe“-Partnerprofil ist das Dokument, das bei der Bildung eines Konsortiums den größten Teil der Arbeit übernimmt. Es wird weitergeleitet, in Plattformen zur Partnersuche eingefügt, an Vorstellungsschreiben angehängt und innerhalb von Organisationen in Umlauf gebracht, mit denen Sie niemals direkt in Kontakt treten…

Founder comparing single-applicant and consortium routes into Horizon Europe

07 Sep. 26

Horizon Europe ohne Konsortium: Können Start-ups sich bewerben?

Anna Lackner

München, 7. September 2026 · Nexuswelt-Gruppe Ja – ein Start-up kann sich ohne Konsortium für „Horizon Europe“ bewerben, allerdings nur über eine kleine Anzahl spezifischer Wege. Dies ist die Frage, die darüber entscheidet, ob ein Gründer die nächsten drei Monate damit verbringt, einen Antrag zu verfassen oder ein Netzwerk aufzubauen;…