A subdivision of a Horizon Europe work package, representing a specific activity with defined objectives, contributing partners, person-month allocation, and link to particular deliverables or milestones.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
T3.2 'Hyperparameter tuning' contributes to deliverable D3.1 and milestone MS3, with partners P1 (8 PM) and P2 (4 PM).
Is an instance
A consortium reviews progress on each task at the bi-monthly executive board meeting.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A whole work package is not a task.
Not an instance
A single literature-review citation is not a task in the project-management sense.

Editorial commentary

Tasks (e.g., T3.1, T3.2 within WP3) provide the operational granularity below work packages. Each task has a short narrative, contributing partners with effort allocations, and time-window within the WP. Tasks may be further broken down into subtasks for internal planning, though only WP-level effort is normally reported to the Commission. Task assignment is critical to consortium internal management and is reviewed at periodic reports.

References

European Commission Horizon Europe Application Form Part B template; Annotated Grant Agreement.

Also known as

Project task · Sub-activity

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Task (Horizon Europe)"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/task-horizon-europe" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/task-horizon-europe",
  "name": "Task (Horizon Europe)",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/task-horizon-europe",
  "description": "A subdivision of a Horizon Europe work package, representing a specific activity with defined objectives, contributing partners, person-month allocation, and link to particular deliverables or milestones.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/research-lifecycle#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/task-horizon-europe",
  "sameAs": [
    "Project task",
    "Sub-activity"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-05-21T02:23:00",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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