For 27 years Dr. Nikolaos Floratos has planned, managed and evaluated European funded projects. Thousands of researchers and organisations have learned one thing from him: anyone can become a great proposal writer with the right guidance, training and tools.
Platforms, academies and AI tools designed for one outcome: your proposal gets funded, your project gets delivered.
The Horizon Europe Guru platform. A complete capacity-building ecosystem that takes universities, research offices and companies from first idea to signed grant agreement, across every Horizon Europe pillar.
Home of the Funding Expert Transformation Process™. Structured courses and live cohorts that turn researchers, project managers and consultants into confident proposal writers and project leaders.
A growing suite of AI tools built on 20+ years of evaluator experience: call scouting, proposal coaching, evaluator-style scoring for ERC, MSCA, EIC and Pillar II, partner mapping and more. The same logic the panel uses, before you submit.
A free online platform that guides researchers to a successful ERC grant, built with a multidisciplinary team including ERC grant holders. Breakthrough ideas, ground-breaking objectives, high-risk / high-gain — finally explained simply.
Complex concepts, decomposed into easy-to-apply, step-by-step recipes. This is how thousands of people went from "I don't understand the Work Programme" to "we got funded".
Every call, every template, every evaluation criterion is broken down into a clear sequence. No jargon survives. You always know what to write next, and why.
Over two decades inside Commission evaluation panels. We teach you what happens in the panel room, what scores, what gets rejected, and how to write for the people who decide.
Checklists, templates, scoring grids and worked examples from funded proposals. Everything is designed to be used the next morning, not admired in a slide deck.
Our AI tools encode the evaluator's logic. Scout the right call, stress-test your excellence section, score your impact pathway, map partners: faster, sharper, before submission.
From a single training day to multi-year institutional programmes on behalf of national agencies: we stay with you from first idea to project delivery and reporting.
🇫🇷 France · Professor
🇮🇹 Italy · Associate Professor
🇱🇹 Lithuania · National Contact Point
🇹🇷 Türkiye · Project Coordinator
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Associate Professor
🇸🇮 Slovenia · Researcher
🇱🇹 Lithuania · Innovation Centre
🇹🇷 Türkiye · Dean of Research
🇱🇹 Lithuania · CEO
🇱🇹 Lithuania · Principal Investigator
🇱🇹 Lithuania · National Contact Point
Nikolaos has dedicated the last 27 years to European Research and Innovation: planning, managing and evaluating EU-funded projects in research, education, ICT, social inclusion, entrepreneurship, standardisation and consumer issues.
As a funding expert, trainer and coach he has supported thousands of individuals and organisations across Europe and the world. He is an expert evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission since 2003, and for the last five years has delivered comprehensive training series on every Horizon Europe sub-programme on behalf of three European countries.
His unique asset: taking complex concepts and decomposing them into easy-to-understand, step-by-step recipes. Google lists him among the top three results for "funding expert".
Universities, research institutes, national agencies, NCPs and companies whose researchers and staff Nikolaos has trained, coached and supported in European Research and Innovation.
Dr. Nikolaos Floratos is a Horizon Europe funding expert, trainer and coach with 27 years in European Research and Innovation. He has been an expert evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission since 2003, has trained more than 40,000 researchers and innovators, and is the creator of OpenCosmos and the founder of the Funding Expert Academy.
Yes. We support proposal writing, participate as partners in consortia, and run pre-submission evaluations that score your draft exactly as a Commission evaluator would. Book a 30-minute call to discuss your call, deadline and consortium.
OpenCosmos is a capacity-building platform for Horizon Europe: on-demand training on every sub-programme, coaching, institutional licences for universities and agencies, proposal-writing support and a Community of Champions.
The Funding Expert Academy trains research managers, consultants and National Contact Points to become funding experts, with the Funding Expert Transformation Process, in-house trainings, one-to-one sessions and live Q&As.
Our AI tools encode the evaluator's logic: call-expertise matching, proposal scoring and stress-testing, talent identification across the globe and inside your own institution, and an ERC applicant scout. See AI in Horizon Europe.
Evaluators score Excellence, Impact and Quality & Efficiency of Implementation against the criteria in the call, using the Work Programme and the evaluation guide. Our training teaches what happens in the panel room, what separates a 4 from a 5, and how to write for the reader who has 30 minutes per proposal.
Yes. We deliver institutional programmes and multi-year national training series on behalf of national agencies and National Contact Points, and have worked with more than 100 universities, research centres, companies and public bodies across 27 countries.
Book a 30-minute call with our Business Development Manager via Calendly, or email info@keyinnovations.eu.
Book a 30-minute call with our Business Development Manager. Tell us your funding goal, and we'll show you the fastest path to it: training, coaching, platform access or AI tools.