Legal and financial questions about Horizon 2020
Your contacts
From application to final accounting: legal and financial questions arise throughout an EU project. Familiarising yourself with the relevant regulations is essential for the smooth running of a research project.
Latest FAQs on Covid-19
Please find the most frequent FAQs (short-time work, covid-tests, cancellation costs) as well as further answers from the European Commission in the context of the coronavirus on our special thematic page "Latest FAQs on Covid-19 in Horizon 2020 projects".
Consultation
For specific legal and financial questions, please contact the legal & financial team of the FFG’s European and Internationale Programmes (see at the bottom). We will show you the way through the maze of rules and regulations, by phone, email or in a personal or virtual meeting.
Project Phases
By using the four buttons below, you will be forwarded to thematic pages dealing with the legal and financial aspects of the respective project phase:
Lump Sum
Our services
concerning legal and financial topics in Horizon 2020:
- Events and webinars on legal and financial aspects in Horizon 2020
- Quarterly news on legal and financial topics
- FAQ collection by FFG of questions on legal and financial issues in Horizon 2020 asked by Austrian programme participants
- Advice on Open Access and Open Data in Horizon 2020
- Reports of Legal NCP Meetings
- Legal and financial information on the 7th Framework Programme
The essentials in brief
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Digitalisation & Broadband, Energy Transition, Europe & International, Further research areas, Life Sciences & Health, Mobility Transition, People, Qualification & Gender, Production & Materials, Society & Security, Space & Aviation
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Target group |
(Non-profit) Associations, Authorities, Competence centres, Large companies, Research facilities, Single researchers, Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Start Up, Universities, Universities of applied sciences
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Advice, Service
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Financing |
International
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