Published 16 June 2026 - 6 min read - by the KanriFlow Team
An average Horizon Europe consortium spans six to fifteen countries, three or four time zones and as many calendar tools as there are partners. Coordinating a single steering committee call across that mix is, in practice, half a working day - lost not to the meeting itself but to the synchronisation around it. The KanriFlow calendar exists to make that cost close to zero.
Every event is stored and rendered in Europe/Berlin time - the working time of the European Commission and of Funding & Tenders calls. Partners in Lisbon, Helsinki or Athens see the same CET timestamp inside the workspace; the conversion to local time happens in their personal Google or Outlook calendar after export. The single shared reference removes the most common source of meeting failures.
Events are typed (SC Meeting, WP Meeting, Training, Dissemination, Review, Deliverable due, Milestone) which drives colour, icon and where the event surfaces - deliverables on the tracker, milestones on the Gantt, SC meetings on the dashboard. A per-user Work Package filter collapses a 10-WP calendar into only the strands each partner actually leads or contributes to, while row-level security keeps WP-internal events hidden from partners who are not on that WP.
One iCal subscription URL plugs the project calendar into Google Calendar, Outlook (Microsoft 365 and Exchange) and Apple Calendar. Every exported event title is prepended with the project acronym in square brackets - [WIDERA-CAPACITY] SC Meeting · Brussels · 14:00 CET - so a coordinator running three parallel projects, and external invitees such as a Commission project officer or a reviewer, can tell at a glance which consortium a meeting belongs to.
External attendees receive a standard calendar invitation (.ics) and accept it once in whichever tool they use - no account, no login. Video-conferencing links live on the event itself, so updates propagate through the same flow and no one ends up on an old Zoom URL.
For a four-year project with quarterly SC meetings, monthly WP meetings, periodic reviews and ~30 deliverables, conservative estimates put the saving at several days of coordinator time per year - time that goes back into the science, the dissemination and the periodic report rather than into calendar tetris.
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