Proposal Management and Grant Preparation

• The Seal of Excellence (SoE) process has been updated and is now creating a task for the Coordinator, in the Grant Management Services application, to approve or not its publication. However, the conditions for generating the Seal of Excellence for the rejected low-funding proposals and the proposals from the reserve list which will not be funded remain the same.
• For CEF projects in GAP & Amendments processes only: a new SyGMa screen "Cross-Border renewable energy projects (CBRES)" has been configured and it has similar functionalities to those in the Projects of Common Interest (PCI) screen.

Amendments

• An additional check on Amendments (AT56) has been implemented, for the case when the initial prefinancing (with MIM) has been already paid. Then, the following rules apply:
  • MIM cannot be decreased
  • if the initial MIM is increased then the initial prefinancing should also be increased by an amount higher than the increased MIM amount.

For more information about how to prepare an amendment, click here.

• For Horizon Europe Equity projects: amendments are not supported for any of the following amendment types: Consortium Requested (CR), Commission Initiated (CI) and Information Procedure (IP). For more information about how to prepare an amendment, click here.

Continuous Reporting

• For MFF 2014-2020 projects: in the Milestones tab, in the Continuous and Periodic Report, the following columns have been added to the table:
  • 'Work Package No.' between the 'Name' and 'Lead Beneficiary' columns.
  • 'Means of Verification' between the 'Lead Beneficiary' and 'Due Date' columns.

• For Lump Sum projects: in the Continuous and Periodic Report, updating the status of a deliverable included in a completed and accepted Work Package is no longer possible. For more information, see Completing the Deliverables.

Periodic Reporting

• From now on, a new naming convention will be used in the filename of an Affiliated Entity's Financial Statement(s) generated .pdf documents: the PIC of the beneficiary to which the entity is affiliated will be also mentioned in the filename.
• For MSCA-COFUND: if the beneficiaries declare, in the Financial Statement, that they have operating grants for the reporting period in case, the following warning text will be displayed on the screen: “Please note that the COFUND allowance cannot be used to cover any expenses covered by the OG”.