Building on the foundations laid during the first REMORA training session in March, the second online training of the REMORA Online Training Program 2026 has been successfully completed. Participants from the three REMORA beneficiary institutions – CITEB, OKEANOS, and OOM – returned to put that strategic grounding into practice, this time diving into the craft of writing a full Horizon Europe Pillar 2 proposal from start to finish.
From framework to writing
Where Training #1 gave participants the strategic mindset and a broad understanding of the Horizon Europe ecosystem, Training #2 shifted the focus to the page itself. Delivered once again by Dr. Nikolaos Floratos – whose interactive style and deep command of European funding mechanisms were already well appreciated in March – the two-day session guided participants through the three sections that make or break a proposal: Excellence, Impact, and Implementation.
Rather than treating these sections in isolation, the training emphasised their internal logic and interdependence. Participants learned how a well-framed problem statement in the Excellence section must echo through the impact pathways, and how the work plan in the Implementation section needs to credibly deliver on every promise made earlier in the proposal.
The four modules covered:
The overall proposal architecture and how each section contributes to a coherent, evaluator-friendly narrative.
- The Excellence section step by step: problem definition, project objectives, relation to the call, and methodological soundness.
- The Impact section in practice: expected outcomes, pathways to impact, target groups, and dissemination and exploitation strategies.
- The Implementation section in detail: work packages, tasks, resources, milestones, deliverables, and risk management.
Throughout both days, participants worked through concrete examples drawn from real Pillar 2 proposals, with particular attention to the recurring mistakes that cost proposals points at evaluation
What’s next
With two training sessions now completed, the REMORA Online Training Program 2026 is well underway. The series continues with:
Research Ethics & Research Data Management on 27&28 April 2026
And soon = Knowledge Transfer, Scientific Communication, Science-Policy Dialogue, Leadership, Gender in Marine Sciences – dates to be announced
Contact point : evelyne.tarnus (a) cellule-europe.re
