Glossary
Key concepts in grant work – from basic terms to the specialised vocabulary of the EU, USAID and the World Bank
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- Call for Proposals (CfP) A call for proposals is a package of topics with a shared deadline and budget, published by the European Commission o… Horizon Europe
- Co-financing (co-financing / matching funds) The principle whereby an EU grant covers only part of the project cost, while the beneficiary funds the rest from its…
- Consortium (consortium) A consortium is a group of legal entities that submit a proposal together and sign the grant agreement. Horizon Europ… Horizon Europe
- Coordinator / Project Coordinator The coordinator is the beneficiary chosen by the consortium to manage the project and represent it before the Commiss… Horizon Europe
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- Deliverable A deliverable is an output that has to be produced at a defined point in the project and submitted to the Commission:… Horizon Europe
- Dissemination & Exploitation Dissemination is making the results of a project public so that others can use them; exploitation is putting those re… Horizon Europe
- Donor (donor / funding body) A donor is an organisation that provides non-repayable funding for public-benefit purposes and sets the rules for usi…
- Due diligence (beneficiary vetting) Due diligence is the check a donor carries out on an organisation before awarding funds: whether it legally exists, w…
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- ESR (Evaluation Summary Report) The Evaluation Summary Report is the final report on the evaluation of your proposal, with the experts' scores and co… Horizon Europe
- Ethics Review Ethics review is a mandatory check that every Horizon Europe proposal above the evaluation threshold goes through. It… Horizon Europe
- Evaluation (application review) Evaluation in Horizon Europe means scoring a proposal from 0 to 5 against three criteria: Excellence, Impact and qual… Horizon Europe
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- GDPR compliance The GDPR is the EU's general regulation on personal data protection, and it applies to a project regardless of the pa…
- Grant A grant is non-repayable, earmarked financial support for a specific project, awarded by a donor through a competitiv…
- Grant application (proposal / application) A Horizon Europe proposal has two parts: Part A is filled in directly in the portal system and holds the administrati…
- Grantwriting Grantwriting is preparing a project proposal so that it complies with the donor's rules and convinces the evaluator.…
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- Logical Framework Matrix (LSM / Logframe) The logical framework matrix describes a project as a verifiable chain: activities lead to outputs, outputs to an out…
- Lump Sum Funding A funding model in which the grant is paid as fixed amounts for completed work packages rather than against actual co… Horizon Europe
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- NICRA (Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement) A NICRA is an agreement between an organisation and a US federal agency on the indirect cost rate that may be charged… USAID
- NOFO (Notice of Funding Opportunity) A NOFO is the official announcement of a US federal grant opportunity, setting out the programme, who may apply, how… USAID
- NRFU (National Research Foundation of Ukraine) The National Research Foundation of Ukraine is a state institution that has funded research projects competitively si… NRFU
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- OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) OFAC is the US Treasury unit that maintains the sanctions lists, above all the SDN list. The general federal grant ru… USAID
- Open Access / Open Science Open science is the practice of making research results accessible: open access publications, FAIR data, transparent… Horizon Europe
- Outputs vs Outcomes vs Impact Three levels of project results: outputs are what you produce directly; outcomes are the changes in behaviour or capa…
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- PIC (Participant Identification Code) A unique 9-digit identifier for an organisation in the European Commission's systems, required to submit proposals fo… Horizon EuropeErasmus+
- Pre-financing / First payment Pre-financing is the advance a consortium receives once the grant agreement is signed, so that work can start. In Hor… Horizon Europe
- Project Officer (PO) A Project Officer is a member of staff at the Commission or an executive agency assigned to your project after select… Horizon Europe
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- Seal of Excellence The Seal of Excellence is a quality label for proposals that passed the evaluation threshold but received no funding… Horizon Europe
- Subgrant / Subaward A subaward is the part of a US federal grant that the main recipient passes on to another organisation so that it car… USAID
- Submission deadline (call deadline / cut-off date) The submission deadline is the point after which the system stops accepting proposals and closes automatically. In EU…
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- UEI (Unique Entity Identifier) The UEI is a twelve-character identifier for an organisation in the US federal grants system, issued free of charge t… USAID
- Ukrainian Cultural Foundation (UCF) The Ukrainian Cultural Foundation is a state institution funding cultural and artistic projects competitively since 2… UCF
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- Work Programme The work programme is a European Commission decision setting out which calls will run in a given period, with what bu… Horizon Europe
- WP (Work Package) A work package is a self-contained part of the project work plan with its own tasks, lead partner, budget and deliver… Horizon Europe
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