Course 3: How to build the Excelence and Implementation sections in a collaborative Horizon 2020 proposal (H2020-103)
Master the techniques and tools for developing a great Excellence and Implementation section.
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 develop great Excellent and Implementation sections in an Horizon 2020 proposal but also to build them with confidence, energy and joy for achieving breakthroughs in Horizon 2020 era.
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 develop great Excellent and Implementation sections in an Horizon 2020 proposal but also to build them with confidence, energy and joy for achieving breakthroughs in Horizon 2020 era.
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
- Build a structure with specific headings and subheadings for your sections in order to facilitate the processing and the evaluation by EC experts
- Understand how to begin the first part of the Excellence section for attracting the attention of the evaluators and influencing them positively towards your proposal
- Master techniques and written phrases for highlighting the value of your proposed project
- Understand techniques for emphasising the quality of the proposed partnership
- Understand how to identify EU/Global Challenges and opportunities as well as to describe convincingly how your project will address them
- Master techniques on how to describe the expected research and development innovation, its components and how it is expected to function (if applicable)
- Realise the extremely high value and how to exploit the participation of stakeholders outside the funded beneficiaries
- Master techniques for coming up with the most suitable approach and methodology for your project
- Exploit the value of milestones and use them for impressing the evaluators
- Exploit resources for dealing with the gender issues in your project
- Master techniques for showing the high ambition of your project and its innovation potential
- Master to build highly informative but also impressive Gantt and Pert charts
- Propose an effective project organisational structure and decision-making process fully aligned with the complexity of the project
- Introduce powerful innovation management principles within your project
- Master techniques for showing the best cost benefit ratio of the suggested resources to be committed in the project
- Build a distinct risk-action plan that its quality and approach stands-out
Course Structure and Approach
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Important Note - Why you should attend this course
Excellence section requires to convince the EC evaluators with facts why you are proposing this project and how you are going to implement them successfully. It is true that these two sections and especially Excellence section require significant expertise on the proposed project domain. Therefore, this training focuses to support you on how to elaborate and justify in the most convincing way the high innovation and research challenges of your project as well as how you will implement successfully such an ambitious project. It is fully applicable for beginners but also advanced users and experts in Horizon 2020 programme. Most of the principles are applicable for collaborative projects such as RIA, IA, FTI, FET, SMEi, etc but also many principles can be used in ERC and MSCA type of actions.
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 one hundred successful applications in Horizon 2020:
- The Full-Module Training Handbook™ with the training slides for each one of the modules above
- The Horizon 2020 Excellence and Implementation toolkit™ that contains key examples and editable templates related to Excellence and Implementation sections.
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.
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 on Horizon 2020 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 Horizon 2020 training session, we are committed to deliver an eye-opening session for all participants from novices to senior experts in Horizon 2020.
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 through outstanding training and coaching practices. He is the author also of the ebook "Who are the champions in Horizon 2020 and what you can learn from them" and he is also the host and organiser of the Horizon 2020 Virtual Summit (www.horizon2020summit.eu) the largest annual virtual training event with more than 35 top experts in Horizon 2020 as trainers and more than 2500 participants. 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. He has trained hundreds of organisations, universities and research institutions from all over Europe on how to exploit successfully Horizon 2020 and has received more than 100 recommendations at his linkedin profile as a funding expert, coach and trainer. Recently, he has founded the Funding Expert Academy for transforming individuals into great grant application developers. A list of indicative universities and other european or international organisations that Nikolaos has supported researchers and individuals on Horizon 2020 follow below:
- Open University of Catalonia (Spain)
- Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain)
- Sabanci University (Turkey),
- University of Bergen (Norway),
- Seinajoki University (Finland)
- Satakunta Univesity (Finland)
- Cergy Pontoise University (France)
- European Academy (Ireland)
- Center for Research and Technology (Greece)
- National Center for Scientific Research "DEMOKRITOS" (Greece)
- Technical University of Cyprus (Cyprus)
- University of Malta (Malta)
- KU Leuven (Belgium)
- Louvain University (Belgium)
- University of Perugia (Italy)
- Hogeschool van Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands)
- European Academy for Education and Social Research (Ireland)
- Olympic Committee of Serbia (Serbia)
- European Regions Research and Innovation Network (European)
- European Platform for Rehabilitation (European)
- South Africa Research and Innovation Management Association (South Africa)
- Western Africa Research and Innovation Management Association.