The European Union will invest almost €16 billion in research and innovation in the next two years under Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation funding scheme, following a new Work Programme for 2016-17 adopted in October 2015. The Horizon 2020 programme target is to remain Europe lading in strategic science, to master societal challenges (e.g. environment, health) and to sustain industrial leadership (e.g. eco-mobility infrastructure, factory of the future). The involvement of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) is given a key attention to carry out innovation and through this creating and sustain employment.
Getting up to speed with the latest developments and the previous results and funding priorities for new H2020 calls will improve your chances tremendously to be included in projects running for the whole period till 2020.
You will be trained, advised and coached on how to participate in the open upcoming calls based on the new Work Programmes and intensive consultations with the relevant officials. This challenging two-day programme is designed for professionals seeking excellence in the EU project development and proposal writing. Furthermore, it will offer effective strategies and tools to those who wish to take part as partners in H2020 projects.
The program develops competencies and skills for initiating and implementing projects satisfying the highest quality criteria and understanding stakeholder issues that enable high impact and sustainability. We shall be building the capacity of project leaders to put in practice the most advanced methodologies for EU project management and leadership from project idea to follow-up.
Experiential learning environment encourages active interplay between conceptual frameworks and their implementation in complex real-world settings. Focusing on new EU funding opportunities we shall examine full project development process identifying key variables for success at each stage and providing irreplaceable insights into best practices;
Due to new political realities, migrants and energy crises, policy changes for the Balkans, Russia and Mediterranean countries, participants will be provided with the exerts guidance for the newly emerging funding and intervention opportunities.
You will benefit from analysis of specific calls for proposals performed by the leading EU authorities, the best partners to establish an international consortium, consensus-driven discussions to define project outline, proposal writing by experienced experts or insight to the EC evaluation criteria from experienced evaluators. As an added value training is based on practical work on participants concrete project proposals under supervision of leading EU experts, interconnecting initiatives that may reinforce each-other.