Techniques and Instruments for Eu Funded Projects

The course is organized around five training events, delivered by a professional consultant and expert trainer on the subject addressed. Euro-project-management is treated starting with an overview of the main EU funds available, taking into due account related documents and introducing the various techniques to be used in order to draft a project proposal, manage a project, monitor and evaluate it as well as reporting back to the EC. More specifically, the first class deals with direct funding from Brussels, that are the main focus of the lessons. Some reference to indirect funds is also made. A few calls for proposal are analyzed in the second class together with the related guidelines and the draft of a project proposal is introduced. The third class is focused on the management of a project, flagging strong and weak elements related to project cycle management, the importance of a successful partnership and providing some useful instruments. The fourth class aims at training on how to monitor and evaluate the project (various typologies are indicated) as well as to report back to the EC all the costs and implemented activities. In the fifth class, the students undertake a general rehearsal, an interactive workshop with simulations of evaluations of short project proposals they elaborated in groups, and a final test with the use of some didactic materials provided by the trainer.