Two days. Bring a Horizon Europe call of your choice. Leave with a full draft proposal you wrote yourself — with the help of free, private AI tools and a 25-year EU funding expert sitting next to you.
Horizon Europe success rates sit around 7–15% across most calls. The winners are rarely the smartest — they are the ones who read the call properly, align to the work programme logic, and write a full draft that survives the first critical read. AI can cut the time for all of this from weeks to days, if you know which four tools to use and how to use them without giving away your idea.
This is a working session, not a presentation. By the end of Day 1 you have a draft Excellence, Implementation and Impact section on a real call of your own.
No slides to re-read back at the office. Real deliverables you can keep working with on Monday morning.
Your target call decoded — scope, expected outcomes, impact pathway, TRL range and evaluation weight per section.
Objectives, State-of-the-Art, methodology and ambition, built with AI prompts designed around Horizon Europe evaluation criteria.
Work packages, tasks, deliverables, milestones, risk table and a first-cut consortium map.
Results-to-outcomes-to-impacts chain, KPIs, D&E&C plan and IPR strategy — written in Horizon Europe's own language.
Four free AI tools configured so your idea is never used to train any model. Prompts, checklists and templates you keep for life.
Candidate organisations to approach as coordinator or join as partner — found with AI-assisted partner search, not Google.
Day 1 is the full-day working session on shore. Day 2 is a shared caldera sailing from Oia to Thyrassia and back — time to breathe, talk with the trainer and the other participants, and let the ideas settle before you go back home.
09:30 – 16:30 • 6 working hours with breaks • Laptop required
11:00 – 17:00 • Boat departs from Oia • Swimming stops in the volcano bay
Five working modules, built on the same method that helped researchers from 100+ universities and institutes across Europe and beyond win Horizon Europe grants.
| Time | Module | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 – 10:45 | Module 1 — Horizon Europe Intelligence | Read your target call the way an evaluator does. Clarify TRLs, type of action, top-down vs bottom-up, expected outcomes, impact logic and evaluation weights. |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee break | Short reset. Not included in the fee. |
| 11:00 – 12:15 | Module 2 — AI Intelligence (private and free) | Four AI tools configured for research work. Opt-out of training. The C.R.E.A.T.E. prompt method. What AI can and cannot do on a Horizon Europe draft. |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | Module 3 — Excellence, built live | On your own call: SoA mapping, objectives, methodology, concept, ambition. First full draft of the Excellence section. |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Lunch break | Self-organised. Not included in the fee. Recommendations shared on arrival. |
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Module 4 — Implementation, built live | Work packages, tasks, deliverables, milestones, risk table, first-cut Gantt and consortium map — all AI-assisted. |
| 15:15 – 16:15 | Module 5 — Impact, built live | Results-to-outcomes-to-impacts chain, KPIs, D&E&C plan, IPR, and exploitation model — in Horizon Europe's own evaluation language. |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Wrap-up & next steps | What to do Monday morning. How to run the draft past your research office. How to find or be found as a partner. |
Dr. Floratos built the Funding Expert Transformation Process and the OpenCosmos capacity building platform that several European universities are now using to double their Horizon Europe submissions and raise their success rate above 20%.
His talent is the one most EU trainers lack: taking heavy Horizon Europe concepts apart and putting them back together as short, usable recipes you can apply the same day. That is the only reason he runs this workshop with 15 seats — so every participant gets live feedback on their own draft.
100% satisfaction guarantee. If the workshop does not deliver what this page promises, you get a full refund. No questions.
From first-time applicants to senior PIs who already coordinate. The method scales with your experience level — the exercises are built on your own call, not on a generic case study.
This is not an overview of Horizon Europe. It is a workshop where you open your laptop, open a real call, and write. If you are looking for slides to take back and read at the office, other trainings will serve you better.
OpenCosmos members pay the member fee. Early bird closes 20 May 2026 or when the 15 seats sell out, whichever comes first. The boat trip on Day 2 is included in every fee.
Any open or forthcoming call under Pillar 2, EIC Pathfinder, MSCA, Widening or ERC. You choose. On the booking form you tell us the topic ID. The trainer reviews it before the workshop so the exercises fit your case.
Yes. The method is built for any level. Beginners leave with a usable draft — advanced applicants leave with a stronger one. Everyone gets live feedback on their own work during Day 1.
A laptop, a charger, the call topic you want to work on, and a short summary of your idea (5–10 lines). That is enough. Pre-work guidance is sent two weeks before.
Yes. The four free AI tools we use are configured so your prompts are not used for model training and no data is retained after the session. You keep full ownership of your material.
The port operator calls it. If sailing is cancelled for safety, we replace Day 2 with a half-day walking and working session in Oia — same hours, same trainer. No refund on the 90 €, 450 € or 590 € fee.
Yes. OpenCosmos annual membership gives unlimited access to our live and recorded courses, unlimited proposal evaluations, matchmaking and monthly funding updates. See horizoneurope.guru.
No. This is a private, small-group session. We protect the confidentiality of each participant's call and draft. The trainer's Q&A follow-up session one month later is available on request.
15 seats, two days, one Horizon Europe proposal you will be glad you wrote. Reserve your place before the 15 fill up.
Book my seatTwo days. Bring a Horizon Europe call of your choice. Leave with a full draft proposal you wrote yourself — with the help of free, private AI tools and a 25-year EU funding expert sitting next to you.
Horizon Europe success rates sit around 7–15% across most calls. The winners are rarely the smartest — they are the ones who read the call properly, align to the work programme logic, and write a full draft that survives the first critical read. AI can cut the time for all of this from weeks to days, if you know which four tools to use and how to use them without giving away your idea.
This is a working session, not a presentation. By the end of Day 1 you have a draft Excellence, Implementation and Impact section on a real call of your own.
No slides to re-read back at the office. Real deliverables you can keep working with on Monday morning.
Your target call decoded — scope, expected outcomes, impact pathway, TRL range and evaluation weight per section.
Objectives, State-of-the-Art, methodology and ambition, built with AI prompts designed around Horizon Europe evaluation criteria.
Work packages, tasks, deliverables, milestones, risk table and a first-cut consortium map.
Results-to-outcomes-to-impacts chain, KPIs, D&E&C plan and IPR strategy — written in Horizon Europe's own language.
Four free AI tools configured so your idea is never used to train any model. Prompts, checklists and templates you keep for life.
Candidate organisations to approach as coordinator or join as partner — found with AI-assisted partner search, not Google.
Day 1 is the full-day working session on shore. Day 2 is a shared caldera sailing from Oia to Thyrassia and back — time to breathe, talk with the trainer and the other participants, and let the ideas settle before you go back home.
09:30 – 16:30 • 6 working hours with breaks • Laptop required
11:00 – 17:00 • Boat departs from Oia • Swimming stops in the volcano bay
Five working modules, built on the same method that helped researchers from 100+ universities and institutes across Europe and beyond win Horizon Europe grants.
| Time | Module | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 – 10:45 | Module 1 — Horizon Europe Intelligence | Read your target call the way an evaluator does. Clarify TRLs, type of action, top-down vs bottom-up, expected outcomes, impact logic and evaluation weights. |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee break | Short reset. Not included in the fee. |
| 11:00 – 12:15 | Module 2 — AI Intelligence (private and free) | Four AI tools configured for research work. Opt-out of training. The C.R.E.A.T.E. prompt method. What AI can and cannot do on a Horizon Europe draft. |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | Module 3 — Excellence, built live | On your own call: SoA mapping, objectives, methodology, concept, ambition. First full draft of the Excellence section. |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Lunch break | Self-organised. Not included in the fee. Recommendations shared on arrival. |
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Module 4 — Implementation, built live | Work packages, tasks, deliverables, milestones, risk table, first-cut Gantt and consortium map — all AI-assisted. |
| 15:15 – 16:15 | Module 5 — Impact, built live | Results-to-outcomes-to-impacts chain, KPIs, D&E&C plan, IPR, and exploitation model — in Horizon Europe's own evaluation language. |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Wrap-up & next steps | What to do Monday morning. How to run the draft past your research office. How to find or be found as a partner. |
Dr. Floratos built the Funding Expert Transformation Process and the OpenCosmos capacity building platform that several European universities are now using to double their Horizon Europe submissions and raise their success rate above 20%.
His talent is the one most EU trainers lack: taking heavy Horizon Europe concepts apart and putting them back together as short, usable recipes you can apply the same day. That is the only reason he runs this workshop with 15 seats — so every participant gets live feedback on their own draft.
100% satisfaction guarantee. If the workshop does not deliver what this page promises, you get a full refund. No questions.
From first-time applicants to senior PIs who already coordinate. The method scales with your experience level — the exercises are built on your own call, not on a generic case study.
This is not an overview of Horizon Europe. It is a workshop where you open your laptop, open a real call, and write. If you are looking for slides to take back and read at the office, other trainings will serve you better.
OpenCosmos members pay the member fee. Early bird closes 20 May 2026 or when the 15 seats sell out, whichever comes first. The boat trip on Day 2 is included in every fee.
Any open or forthcoming call under Pillar 2, EIC Pathfinder, MSCA, Widening or ERC. You choose. On the booking form you tell us the topic ID. The trainer reviews it before the workshop so the exercises fit your case.
Yes. The method is built for any level. Beginners leave with a usable draft — advanced applicants leave with a stronger one. Everyone gets live feedback on their own work during Day 1.
A laptop, a charger, the call topic you want to work on, and a short summary of your idea (5–10 lines). That is enough. Pre-work guidance is sent two weeks before.
Yes. The four free AI tools we use are configured so your prompts are not used for model training and no data is retained after the session. You keep full ownership of your material.
The boat operator calls it. If sailing is cancelled for safety, we replace Day 2 with a half-day walking and working session in Oia — same hours, same trainer. No refund on the 90 €, 450 € or 590 € fee.
Yes. OpenCosmos annual membership gives unlimited access to our live and recorded courses, unlimited proposal evaluations, matchmaking and monthly funding updates. See horizoneurope.guru.
No. This is a private, small-group session. We protect the confidentiality of each participant's call and draft. The trainer's Q&A follow-up session one month later is available on request.
15 seats, two days, one Horizon Europe proposal you will be glad you wrote. Reserve your place before the 15 fill up.
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