Course 3: Step-by-step guidance for managing, evaluating and assuring the production of strong impact and of high quality outcomes from your EU funded project. (EU Manage-101)
A crash course on how to impress the stakeholders of your EU funded projects with its high impact and quality of its project outcomes with the lean way.
Duration
The course duration is min 3 hours face-to-face including interactions. It does not include any break time as well as any presentations to be made by other speakers that should be added if applicable. The structure of the course has been optimized consistently in order to achieve the highest effect at the least possible duration and ensuring the largest participation, especially of individuals with a busy schedule.
The above structure doesn't include any hands on practice. Therefore, in addition, as extra optional module, we can add a 0.5, 1 or 1.5 day that involves practical assignments, group work and customised support on the specific needs that each participant has. The ultimate aim of this module is for participants not only to understand the full recipe with detailed steps on how to manage, evaluate and assure the production of strong impact and of high quality outcomes from your EU funded project develop but also to build them with confidence, energy and joy for achieving breakthroughs in their EU funded projects.
The above structure doesn't include any hands on practice. Therefore, in addition, as extra optional module, we can add a 0.5, 1 or 1.5 day that involves practical assignments, group work and customised support on the specific needs that each participant has. The ultimate aim of this module is for participants not only to understand the full recipe with detailed steps on how to manage, evaluate and assure the production of strong impact and of high quality outcomes from your EU funded project develop but also to build them with confidence, energy and joy for achieving breakthroughs in their EU funded projects.
Number of participants
There is no limitation on the number of participants. They can be from 6 to 600+ as long as they can listen to the instructor (Mr. Nikolaos Floratos) with a lavaliere microphone and can see his projections on screen wall and what he writes on the flipchart).
For the Hands on Module it is better to limit the participants up to 50.
For the Hands on Module it is better to limit the participants up to 50.
Learning Objectives
- To think and act like a leader in (EU) funded projects
- To understand the full project development cycle of an (EU) funded project
- To understand why the common practices in implementing an ambitious (EU) funded project of min duration 2 years up to 5-6 years fail
- To apply the best implementation methodology for skyrocketing the impact and the quality of your (EU) funded project based on the most widely accepted and most cost-effective implementation practices such as SCRUM, Lean and Six Sigma.
- To introduce different types evaluation and quality assessment practices for breakthroughs in your project
- Familiarisation with free online tools and provided templates for easy and effective (not efficient!) project management and implementation methodology for your (EU) funded project.
- To impress your stakeholders with high impact and quality of the project outcomes
Course Structure and Approach
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Specialisation Certificate
All participants after attending the whole course can receive a specialisation certificate on "Funding and Implementing European Projects" issued by Institute of Leadership and Management, part of City and Guilds group.
Important Note
The above structure is of high value for organisations and individuals irrespectively to their experience on project management, implementation, evaluation and quality assurance of (EU) funded projects. All participants will get the full recipe on how to develop step-by-step breakthroughs in their (EU) funded project.
Available Unique Resources
In addition, we will make available to all participants the following powerful tools and templates that are based on best practices from more than two hundred funded projects:
- The Full-Module Training Handbook™ with the training slides for each one of the modules above
- The EU Champion compass™ that is a two page* workbook template for making each participant to think and act as a leader in (EU funded projects)
- The EU Managers toolkit™ that is a∗ snapshot with key resources, templates and examples for developing breakthroughs in an (EU) funded project
Training fee
We offer the best training experience at the most economical price. Please contact us at [email protected] to provide you more details on the training fee for delivering this distinct course at your premises. Please indicate to us
- the exact course you are interested in,
- the provisional dates that are more convenient for you,
- the expected location,
- the estimated number of participants as well as
- whether you are interested in your participants receiving the ILM/City & Guilds Specialisation Certificate.
Training logistics
A lavaliere microphone, projector to be connected to trainer’s laptop or to a PC, a screen wall, a flipchart and markers, wifi.
100% Satisfaction Guarantee
We are the only training organization in that our approach is based on results and not on effort. We are so confident of the high value of our training that we personally guarantee on its quality, effectiveness and distinct value. In case, you are not satisfied with our training, then we will not get paid anything. Even if some of the participants have already participated in another related training session, we are committed to deliver an eye-opening session for all participants from novices to senior experts.
About the Trainer - Nikolaos Floratos
Nikolaos is ranked by Google and Linkedin in the top three positions as funding expert. His passion is education and training and his mission is to transform the life of individuals and make them better persons with his training. He is also a Phd researcher in student engagement and eLearning. He is a lifelong learner with B.Eng and M.Sc in Electrical Engineering and Communications from Imperial College, London, an MBA from National Technical University & Athens University of Economics and Business and recently completed his Bachelor of Arts in history of civilizations as a hobby. The last 10 years, he has transformed thousands of individuals from more than forty countries into successful grant application developers and project managers through outstanding training and coaching practices. . He is an expert on behalf of the European Commission on evaluating and reviewing projects and proposals since 2003 and currently, through his research, he focuses on student engagement and he has proved that anyone can master even complicated subjects very fast by receiving training and support in an engaging way and with the proper instruction strategy. He delivers all his courses and seminars based on continuous interactions with his audience and based on “recipes” and practical steps that allow them to absorb easily what they should master and achieve extraordinary results very quickly.
Nikolaos has been contracted as project manager or External Evaluator on more than forty European Projects in areas as Horizon 2020, DG Justice, Erasmus+, FP7, FP6, LLP, Active Citizenship, Progress, JLS, etc. As senior project manager and external quality evaluator, he has developed and applied profound quality assurance, monitoring and risk prevention projects. My moto –guide that I teach also to my seminar participants (see below) is “Be proactive and not reactive” and the 5Ps “Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance”.
One of his unique skills is the expertise in both the area of administrative and technical management of European Projects but also in the area of external evaluation audits. Indicatively, he has acted as external evaluator in the following large collaborative european funded educational projects that further info and references can be provided per request: REBIKE, CREMOLE, NETSOUNDS, e-VIWO, MERLIN, RADAR, Job Tradi, ETHICSBOARD, MAPEC.
His external evaluation focuses not only on his evaluated projects to deliver and fulfil their contractual obligations but also to provide suggestions on the sustainability of the expected project results after the funding period as well as create the expected impact on the project stakeholders (Partners, end-users, beneficiaries). All his evaluations as an external expert are based on a) fruitful collaboration with the partners (by considering also intercultural differences among the partnership), b) effective (powerful but not bureaucratic) evaluation procedures, c) quantitative and qualitative methodologies based on state of the art tools (e.g. online questionnaires, statistical analysis tools, etc), d) presenting the necessary evaluation information in simple words for full comprehension and engagement by all partners, e) excellent communication skills that is the key factor for successful external evaluations and breakthroughs in funded projects.
Nikolaos has been contracted as project manager or External Evaluator on more than forty European Projects in areas as Horizon 2020, DG Justice, Erasmus+, FP7, FP6, LLP, Active Citizenship, Progress, JLS, etc. As senior project manager and external quality evaluator, he has developed and applied profound quality assurance, monitoring and risk prevention projects. My moto –guide that I teach also to my seminar participants (see below) is “Be proactive and not reactive” and the 5Ps “Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance”.
One of his unique skills is the expertise in both the area of administrative and technical management of European Projects but also in the area of external evaluation audits. Indicatively, he has acted as external evaluator in the following large collaborative european funded educational projects that further info and references can be provided per request: REBIKE, CREMOLE, NETSOUNDS, e-VIWO, MERLIN, RADAR, Job Tradi, ETHICSBOARD, MAPEC.
His external evaluation focuses not only on his evaluated projects to deliver and fulfil their contractual obligations but also to provide suggestions on the sustainability of the expected project results after the funding period as well as create the expected impact on the project stakeholders (Partners, end-users, beneficiaries). All his evaluations as an external expert are based on a) fruitful collaboration with the partners (by considering also intercultural differences among the partnership), b) effective (powerful but not bureaucratic) evaluation procedures, c) quantitative and qualitative methodologies based on state of the art tools (e.g. online questionnaires, statistical analysis tools, etc), d) presenting the necessary evaluation information in simple words for full comprehension and engagement by all partners, e) excellent communication skills that is the key factor for successful external evaluations and breakthroughs in funded projects.