Know if your Horizon Europe proposal is competitive — before you write it.
CriteriaI evaluates your research proposal against 55,000+ funded projects representing €121 billion in EU research funding. Novelty score, strategic fit, consortium gaps, and similar funded projects — all in one report.
No credit card required · 3 free evaluations
Horizon Europe and H2020 data, updated monthly
THE REALITY
Success rates are falling.
The competition is not.
12%
Overall success rate in 2025
↓ from 17%
80% jump
in proposals on some calls
vs last year
6–12 months
of work per proposal
for the team
A failed Horizon Europe proposal doesn't just mean no funding. It means 6–12 months of consortium effort, travel, meetings, and writing — for nothing.
Most proposals fail not because the science is bad, but because the positioning is wrong: the idea overlaps with something already funded, the consortium misses a required partner type, or the TRL doesn't match what the call actually asks for.
These are things you can find out in 30 seconds.
If you have the right data.
GROUNDED IN REAL DATA
Not AI guesses. Actual funded projects.
Every similar project we surface is a real EU-funded project with a CORDIS identifier, a funded consortium, and a public link.
We update our database every month from the official CORDIS bulk data feed. 55,000+ projects across Horizon Europe and H2020. 56,000+ participating organisations. 530,000+ peer-reviewed publications from those projects.
When CriteriaI says “12 similar projects were funded in this area,” you can click on all 12.
55,000+
funded projects
in database
56,000+
organisations
mapped
530,000+
publications
indexed
€121B+
EU funding
tracked
194
countries
represented
Monthly
updated
from CORDIS
HOW IT WORKS
Four inputs. One expert-level report.
Paste your call
Copy the call topic text from the EU Funding & Tenders portal, or just enter the call code — we fetch it automatically.
HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-41Describe your proposal
Add your title and objectives. Early draft or polished text — both work. The more detail you give, the sharper the analysis.
Add your consortium (optional)
Name your coordinator and partners. We match them against EU project history to show their track record on similar calls. Leave blank for a general evaluation.
Get your report
In under 30 seconds, you have a structured evaluation: novelty score, strategic fit analysis, consortium gaps, and the 10 most similar projects ever funded by the EU — with links to every project on the official EU database, not AI hallucinations.
FEATURES
Find out if your idea has already been funded.
We search 55,000+ Horizon Europe and H2020 projects using semantic similarity — not keyword matching.
If 15 projects already explored your idea and 3 were just funded last year, you need to know that before submitting. Not after.
Know the competition before you start writing.
Enter a call code and we fetch everything from the EU Funding & Tenders portal automatically — budget range, deadline, action type, eligibility conditions, and direct links to the portal.
For calls that have been evaluated before, we show you exactly how many proposals were submitted, how many got funded, the success rate, and the full score distribution. You see the odds before you invest months of work.
Score your proposal against what the call actually asks for.
Every Horizon Europe call has explicit expected outcomes, TRL requirements, and thematic priorities. Most proposals get rejected not for bad science, but for misalignment with these.
CriteriaI reads your proposal and the call side by side and tells you exactly where the gaps are — before an evaluator does.
Build the right consortium, not just any consortium.
We match your named partners against EU project organisation history. See their track record: how many times they've participated, which funding schemes they've won, whether they've coordinated before.
Then we suggest additional partners — real institutions from similar winning consortia — filtered by activity type, country, and SME status.
See which scientific domains your proposal covers — and which it misses.
Every funded project is mapped to the EU's EuroSciVoc taxonomy. We show you which scientific fields your proposal addresses, which are well-covered by existing funded projects, and which represent genuine white space for a competitive edge.
A quick check, or a full pre-submission audit.
Standard evaluation (1 credit): one AI agent, all four dimensions, results in 15 seconds. Use it when you're brainstorming topics, comparing multiple ideas, or want a quick sanity check before investing more time.
Deep evaluation (4 credits): four specialist agents run in parallel — novelty, call fit, consortium, synthesis — then a fifth combines them into a calibrated report with an improvement checklist, risk register, and mock reviewer critique. Run it after every major revision. Your first report might flag twelve items — your third, two. The strongest proposals are submitted with a clean sheet.
HOW TEAMS USE CRITERIAI
Illustrative scenarios — not real user testimonials.
BUILT FOR
For researchers who can't afford to submit blind.
You're submitting to a call with a 12% success rate. The evaluators reviewing your proposal have read hundreds of funded projects in your domain.
You should have too.
CriteriaI gives you the same overview in 30 seconds. Identify overlapping funded projects. Understand what winning proposals in your domain look like. Find partner institutions that have won in your area before.
Ideal for: ERC applicants · MSCA fellows · RIA coordinators
PRICING
Pay for what you use.
No hidden costs.
Cancel any time. All plans include Standard and Deep evaluations.
All plans start with 3 free evaluations. No credit card required.
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FAQ
Questions
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