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Questions and Answers on Horizon Europe: General, Personnel Costs, MSCA, and ERC

05/04/2024

In March 2024, Czech legal and financial National Contact Points updated three documents with questions and answers from the European Commission on the financial and legal aspects of the Horizon Europe program.

The updates include:

  • In the general Q&As, a new chapter has been added that addresses the specifics of grants funded by lump sums and programmes aimed at widening participation and spreading excellence.
  • The Q&As dedicated to personnel costs contain new information related to, for example, the mandatory paid holiday for agreements (DPP/DPČ) in the context of changes to the labor code.
  • In the MSCA and ERC sections, the update reflects the new interpretation by the REA regarding the possibility of employing contracts exceeding a 1.0 full-time equivalent.

Newly added questions in the individual documents after March 2023 are marked with a special symbol exclamation.png

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European Court of Auditors Publishes Opinions on Horizon Europe and the European Competitiveness Fund

13/01/2026

The European Court of Auditors has published two closely linked Opinions on the proposed EU budget framework for 2028–2034: Opinion 02/2026 on the future Horizon Europe programme and Opinion 01/2026 on the new European Competitiveness Fund (ECF). While both documents follow...

Update of the guidance on participation in EU calls with ownership and control restrictions

05/01/2026

The European Commission has updated the guidance on participation in EU calls with ownership and control restrictions. The updated guidance is published under the following link. The update aligns the guidance with the new Financial Regulation 2024/2509 and extends...

Switzerland becomes an associated country to the Horizon Europe programme

11/11/2025

On 10 November 2025, the EU Programmes Agreement (EUPA) was signed in Bern by Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin and European Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva. The agreement applies with immediate effect, meaning that Switzerland is associated to Horizon Europe, the Euratom...
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