AI for Horizon Europe. The Santorini Workshop.
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.
AI for Horizon Europe Proposals — From Call to Draft in One Day
19–20 June 2026 • Santorini
Most Horizon Europe proposals fail for reasons that can be fixed before submission.
With success rates around 7–15%, winners are not necessarily the smartest — they are the ones who:
read the call correctly
align with the Work Programme logic
deliver a complete, evaluator-ready draft
AI can reduce this process from weeks to days — if used correctly.
What this is
This is a working session, not a presentation.
By the end of Day 1, you will have:
a draft Excellence section
a draft Implementation section
a draft Impact section
All based on your own target call.
How you can use it
You can apply this in two ways:
As a partner
Join a Horizon Europe proposal and contribute effectively to the coordinator
As a coordinator
Initiate and structure your own competitive proposal
What you leave with
Six concrete outputs you can use immediately:
1. A call read you can trust
Scope, expected outcomes, impact pathway, TRLs and evaluation logic decoded
2. Draft Excellence section
Objectives, State-of-the-Art, methodology and ambition
3. Draft Implementation section
Work packages, tasks, deliverables, milestones, risks and consortium structure
4. Draft Impact section
Impact pathway, KPIs, dissemination, exploitation and IPR strategy
5. Private AI toolkit
Four AI tools configured for research work
Prompts, checklists and templates you keep
6. Partner shortlist
Relevant organisations identified through AI-assisted search
The two-day structure
Day 1 — Working Session
19 June 2026 • 09:30–16:30 • Santorini
09:30 – 10:45
Horizon Europe Intelligence
→ Understand the call like an evaluator
11:00 – 12:15
AI Intelligence
→ Tools, setup and prompt method (C.R.E.A.T.E.)
12:15 – 13:15
Excellence (live drafting)
→ Build your first section
14:15 – 15:15
Implementation (live drafting)
→ Structure your project
15:15 – 16:15
Impact (live drafting)
→ Define outcomes and value
16:15 – 16:30
Wrap-up & next steps
Day 2 — Caldera Sailing (Oia ⇄ Thyrassia)
20 June 2026 • 11:00–17:00
• Boat departs from Oia
• Swimming stops in the volcano bay
Informal discussions
1-to-1 time with the trainer
Refinement of your draft
Networking with participants
Trainer
Dr. Nikolaos Floratos
25+ years in EU R&I funding
20+ years EC evaluator
50,000+ researchers trained
Experience across 45+ countries
Creator of the Funding Expert Transformation Process
and the OpenCosmos platform
Who this is for
Researchers (PIs, postdocs, PhDs)
Research managers / grant offices
Research infrastructures
SMEs and innovators
NGOs preparing Horizon proposals
Key takeaway
You leave with:
- a real draft on your own call
- and a method you can reuse immediately
