After the submission of your proposal, the European Commission will evaluate your proposal. The coordinators of successful proposals for which funding is available, are invited to start preparations for the grant. If this invitation is issued before the Commission ranked list has been finalised, the invitation will explain that preparations may have to be terminated or changed once the final ranking is decided on.
The invitation to start the Grant Agreement Preparation, contains a link to the Grant Management Services Tool.
The Coordinator clicks on "Grant Agreement Data preparation" to edit and complete the necessary forms.
Once the Coordinator has clicked the "Grant Agreement Data preparation" task, he can complete the necessary forms.
The Grant Management Services tool opens with the Project Summary screen.
Once all forms have been completed, the Coordinator clicks the "Submit to EU" button.
The Grant Agreement signature happens in several steps:
Note: A Grant Agreement is in force when it has been signed by both the EC and the beneficiary. A Declaration Form is in force when it has been signed by the beneficiary. In general, a document will become in force as soon as all necessary parties have signed (even if other parties also sign the document later).
For example: the Coordinator has to sign the Grant Agreement:
The Coordinator clicks on the tasks "Grant Agreement signature". He can verify all relevant documents in the documents section.
Once he's ready to sign, he clicks the "Sign" button.
Once he has clicked the "Sign" button, he's asked to login to ECAS and click the "Sign" button again.
Once the Coordinator has clicked the "Sign" button, the task "Grant Agreement signature" has disappeared because the task has been completed.
A green banner appears in the Grant Management Services screen, indicating that the document is being processed. After a while the signed document will be available in the documents section.