Developing and writing a competitive proposal for Horizon Europe is no mean feat. Done right, proposal writing in Horizon Europe takes hundreds of hours of work by experienced professionals.
If you are new to writing such proposals, your chance of success unaided is extremely slim. Even if you are already experienced with writing similar proposals and confident in your abilities, writing a 50-page-document of dense content still requires a substantial amount of your valuable time. Familiar with the workings of academia ourselves, MODUS knows first-hand that most academics already have a jam-packed schedule and won’t be able to fit in another major task. There are also various tips and tricks that dedicated professionals like us have acquired through years of experience in European funding framework, helping to increase your odds of success.
Horizon Europe is an extremely competitive program, and the stats of recent years have only shown that it is getting more competitive every year as submitted proposals are at an all-time high. It has a success rate of ~15% overall, with some topics below 5%, and millions of Euros are on the line. This means you should do everything you can to increase your own odds of success. You need dedicated proposal writing experts who can fully dedicate themselves to writing your Horizon Europe proposal. You need MODUS.
We nurture a tight retinue of highly trained Innovation Managers (IM) who have operated in European framework programs for over 20 years. Every proposal is precious to us, and an IM will be dedicated to your proposal from start to finish. Your dedicated IM will fully immerse themselves in your proposal, your concept, and your team. We will be taking responsibility and a sense of ownership or your proposal that you will find nowhere else. Whether you come to us with a fully fleshed consortium and research plan, or only an idea and a dream, we will be there every step of the way and give you your best shot at success. We don’t just tell you what could be better. We work with you to actively make it better. The list to the right gives you an overview of the different tasks we perform, but this will be individually tailored to every proposal depending on call topic, concept and partners. There is no one-size-fits-all solution!
MODUS is a small, yet robust not-for-profit organisation. This distinguishes us from other large and better-known service providers with expansive pools of staff and huge throughputs of proposals. With margins on the mind, these services offer minimal time dedication possible, for maximal profits. They rely on high client turnovers to compensate for unhappy clients.
Many of our clients utilised such providers before discovering how little value they truly offered and turning to us in the hopes of better. Since the start of Horizon Europe, over 80% of our client base are return customers, and a whopping 100% of our clients would highly recommend us to their colleagues after submission. As a small not-for-profit organisation, we depend on referrals and return customers. This demands the provision of superior services, which we are unquestionably achieving.
Our superior quality service does not come at a higher price tag. In fact, it tends to costs less. Initial consultation to discuss your concept is completely free. Should you then wish to employ our services, we operate a two-stage fee model: An upfront submission fee and a success fee. This risk-based model allows us to keep the proposal development fees as low as we can, while showing that we have confidence in every proposal we write. The exact fees depend on the funding programme, proposal length, and consortium size.
Unlike many competitors which charge a percentage of your awarded sum as their success fee, adding up to eye-watering amounts, our success fees are modest flat rates amounting to less than 5% of your overheads. As a not-for-profit organisation, MODUS has no shareholders to satisfy, no large facilities to maintain, and no costly advertisement campaigns. All of this results in extraordinary value for money for you!
