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  09 September 2024

Project proposals made to the calls opened by the European Commission with the lump sum funding model between 2018 and 2024 and the projects carried out with the lump sum method in this period were examined. 

Between 2018 and 2024/January, 6 000 eligible lump sum proposals submitted in the scope of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe Programmes. 1.300 lump sum grants were evaluated as successful and more than 500 of these have been completed.

Grants with lum sum funding model, 90% of lump sum budgets were funded as requested in the proposal, while 10% experienced a cut of more than EUR 100 after the evaluation. In the 10% of cases that were subject to a cut, the cuts ranged from EUR 178 to EUR 290.000, with a median of EUR 24.414.

Finally, there are studies in the report regarding the partial payment to be made at the end of the project for uncompleted work packages. All 520 lump sum grants that were closed by 23 May 2024 (445 grants under Horizon 2020 and 75 grants under Horizon Europe) were examined. Out of these 520 closed grants, 21 grants were not paid in full at the final payment. For 13 grants, the partial payments were paid as declared, while for the other 8 grants, the project officer decided a lower percentage (median is 11%) of work package completion than what was declared by the consortium at the final reporting period.

Apart from the issues mentioned above, you can access the results of the surveys, recommendations and suggestions and other evaluations from the link.