Tuesday, May 8, 2018

A Sample Checklist For Project Funding Europe

By Joshua Barnes


At this moment in time you may be looking for funding for your project. You are very excited about it and have just finished the proposal and feasibility study attached to it, and all you need is project funding Europe. If you are thinking of getting some funding for your research form a European funding agency then do read on.

Do wait for the call for proposals and project s on the internet, which will appear on government and fund agency websites. Sometimes, though rarely, they will come out in newspapers also. A majority of the time the proposals they seek will be multidisciplinary in nature and if they do need something more specific they will indicate this. Expect such searches or proposal calls to happen in the first six months of the year.

It may be a good idea for your proposal to be looked over by a grant application expert before you submit. Many experts for grant proposal writing exist out there and they may charge a modest fee to help spruce up your application. Some do not charge fees however, but expect to be made part of the project team once it is approved.

One factor in getting funds from Europe is that you must have a European based partner. This partner can be non governmental or governmental in nature, as long as you do have a European entity as part of the entire project execution. Thus it may be a good idea to get some Memoranda of Agreements and Letters of Intent ready for these European bodies just in case.

When your application has been properly organized and beautified so to speak, then the next step will be to submit it. Once you submit it then it will be just a matter of waiting. Some of these applications can take up to fourteen weeks to be processed and looked at before you are notified of anything. Thus while you wait, it is a good idea to get busy with other things as well.

Your proposal will be vetted by experts, and as such many questions will be raised by them which will be collated and drafted. You will not be given these questions or queries for clarification but will instead be asked from you at an interview for a specified date. If you are contacted for an interview then you know that your foot is in the door and you are almost there.

At the interview panel itself, there will be a few experts present to ask you questions, at most about five. Thus you and your team should also be present to answer the queries that they will throw at you. Though quite scary, you can prepared for this interview beforehand by preparing your key ideas on the viability of your proposal, the way that it will be monitored and evaluated, and also how it will it pave the way for a future impact analysis or study once it ends. These key ideas usually carry the heaviest weight in terms of points in these interviews.

Grants will be awarded usually within a month if you passed the panel interviews. But they do not just hand the money to you outright. They will of course require additional documents from you like project planning worksheets and man hour computations as well as the terms of reference for each member of the project team and also for any future members that you may want on board.




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