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Task (Horizon Europe)

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

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Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)
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