Horizon projects can have more impact if they work together. With multi-project calls on the rise, why not draft them together?
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The European Commission already asks projects funded under the same Horizon calls to ‘cluster’ and find ways to work together. Now, a group of researchers working in aquatic resources has taken this a step further by writing multiple proposals together and submitting them under the same call topics.
According to Ivo Grigorov, grant adviser at the Technical University of Denmark's National Institute of Aquatic Resources, it’s unrealistic to expect two projects developed independently to work well together once they kick off. “We're thinking how you can jump to the stage before: if a call is asking for two projects, let's see if we can design two highly complementary concepts, and if they are good enough, both of them will get funded.”
Grigorov and his colleagues have been pondering this idea for almost a decade. Their first attempt came in 2018, when the aquatic resources community sat down together to draft a proposal for a project…
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