PROGRAMME

Day 1
  • The EU Budget and Funding Opportunities: Structural Funds Vs EU Funding Programmes
  • The EU Institutions: structure and role in EU Funding Programmes
  • EU Procurement: commercial and business opportunities through EU Tenders
  • EU Funding Programmes: overview and general rules
  • The 2021-2027 Programming Cycle
  • Documentation: Call for Proposals, Work Programme and Form
  • Official Sources of Information
Day 2
  • The Lifecycle of EU Funded Projects: the various stages from idea to project
  • Project Life-Cycle: identification and appraisal
  • Project Life-Cycle: proposal drafting, analysis of the Application Form
  • Project Life-Cycle: submission, evaluation and negotiation.  The Grant Agreement
  • Project Life-Cycle: managing the approved project and the closing stage
  • Zoom-in on Horizon Europe, the Research & Innovation Programme: a practitioner’s perspective since FP5
  • Case studies: reference to real-life case scenarios of proposals, projects and consortia
Day 3
  • How to Write a Sound Proposal: methodologies and tools
  • Context and Objectives
  • Results, Deliverables and International Consortium
  • Planning: Work Breakdown Structure and Work Packages
  • Resources and Budgeting
  • Impact and Sustainability: crafting a long-term vision
  • The Evaluation: the perspective of the proposer.  Analysis of Evaluation Summary Reports
Day 4
  • Workshop: Participants are grouped into Teams and will simulate the development of a proposal.  The Workshop is based on a real Call for Proposal and Work Programme.  Teams will use a simplified Form developed specifically for this workshop.  Teams will work under the supervision and guidance of the trainers.
Day 5
  • The Evaluation 2: the perspective of the evaluator.  How is the evaluation stage structured, who are the evaluators and how they “think”?
  • Shock Therapy: participants present their work and simulate the evaluation phase.  Teams assess proposals using the tools of the evaluators.
  • Wrap-up and Conclusions