EU-Förderung: News & Insights

Map of EuroHPC AI Factories and Antennas across Europe

28 Aug. 26

Digital Europe Programme 2026: AI Factories and Data Spaces for Manufacturing

Anna Lackner

Munich, 28 August 2026 · Nexuswelt Group Europe’s AI infrastructure programme is usually reported as a sequence of budget announcements: a number, a list of countries, a photograph. Read that way, it looks like something happening to other organisations – national supercomputing centres and large industrial groups. That reading misses…

Causal pathway from project result to user uptake in a Horizon Europe impact section

26 Aug. 26

Horizon Europe Impact Section: How to Write It So Evaluators Score It High

Anna Lackner

Impact is where technically excellent proposals lose. A consortium that scores well on Excellence and Implementation and only three out of five on Impact will usually not be funded, because in a field this competitive the threshold is not the problem – the ranking is. The difference between a three…

24 Aug. 26

EU-Förderung für Start-ups: Sind Sie bereit?

Anna Lackner

Die meisten Start-ups, die sich um europäische Fördermittel bewerben und dabei scheitern, scheitern nicht, weil ihre Idee schlecht war. Sie scheitern, weil sie noch nicht bereit für die Bewerbung waren, und niemand hat ihnen dies mitgeteilt, bevor sie acht Wochen damit verbrachten, dies herauszufinden. Diese Checkliste dient dazu, dass Sie…

Canadian company preparing to join a Horizon Europe consortium

21 Aug. 26

Horizon Europe for Canadian Companies: A Practical Entry Guide

Anna Lackner

There is no shortage of information about Canada’s association to Horizon Europe. Almost all of it is written for researchers at universities, by government departments and university international offices, and it explains eligibility very well. This guide is written for Canadian companies — SMEs, scale-ups, technology providers and industrial R&D…

Coordinator drafting the dissemination and exploitation section of a Horizon Europe proposal

19 Aug. 26

Kommunikations- und Disseminationsplan: So überzeugen Sie Gutachter

Anna Lackner

Drei bis fünf unabhängige Experten werden Ihren Antrag prüfen. Jeder von ihnen widmet sich vor der Konsenssitzung einige Stunden lang dem Antrag. In dieser Zeit versuchen sie, eine Frage zu diesem Teil des Dokuments zu beantworten: Werden diese Ergebnisse den Laborbereich verlassen? Ein vager Absatz beantwortet diese Frage unzureichend, was…

17 Aug. 26

Lump Sum Funding in Horizon Europe: How It Works and What Changes for You

Anna Lackner

Lump sum funding is usually introduced with a single sentence: you report on what you delivered instead of what you spent. That is accurate, and it is also the reason so many consortia are caught out by it. The sentence describes what happens after the grant is signed. It says…

14 Aug. 26

Horizon Europe 2026–27: Was sich für Konsortien ändert

Anna Lackner

München, 14. August 2026 · Nexuswelt-Gruppe Über das Arbeitsprogramm 2026–27 wurde in den Medien weitgehend als Vereinfachungsmaßnahme berichtet. In den meisten Berichten wurden die Änderungen zwar korrekt aufgeführt, doch dabei blieb es dann auch. Weitaus seltener wurde jedoch darauf eingegangen, was diese Änderungen in der Praxis bedeuten – wie sie…

12 Aug. 26

How to Build a Horizon Europe Consortium from Scratch

Anna Lackner

Building a consortium is the part of Horizon Europe that no rulebook prepares you for. The eligibility conditions take a paragraph to state. Assembling seven organisations across five countries who trust each other enough to co-sign a budget takes months. This guide is for organisations doing it for the first…

10 Aug. 26

EU Funding for Startups: Where to Start in 2026

Anna Lackner

Most founders begin the search for European funding in the wrong place: by browsing calls. The result is predictable – hours spent reading topic texts that were never written for their stage of company, followed by a rushed application to whichever call happens to close soonest. The sequence that works…

08 Aug. 26

Ukraine Joins the European Defence Fund: What It Actually Opens Up

Anna Lackner

Mid-July 2026, at the EU–Ukraine Defence Industry Forum in Kyiv, Ukraine’s Minister of Defence Mykhailo Fedorov and the EU’s Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius signed two agreements that change what Ukrainian defence and dual-use companies can access. The first associates Ukraine to the European Defence Fund. The second…

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