Sunday 13 May 2018

Some Information For Project Funding Europe

By Joshua Barnes


Currently you are reading this article right ow because you have a proposal for funding in the wings. You are excited to get some money to get your project going and looking for some project funding Europe. If this is such the case, then do read on in this article for some information regarding the acquisition of these funds.

Look out for Call for Proposals for funding on the internet, usually on the fund agencies sites. Usually these are general calls for proposals covering multi disciplinary fields while some calls for very specific projects for funding. See where yours will fit in and submit accordingly by the guidelines once you have polished it up. Project proposal calls for funds usually occur in the first six months of every year.

Prior to your submission, it may not hurt to get a grant expert to look over your proposal. Many experts dealing with grants do exist out there and they will work for a modest fee. However, some want to be paid by making them part of the project team should the proposal be accepted by the funding agency.

A big factor in being approved is if the project will take into account partnership with a European based agency, whether it be a governmental or nongovernmental one. Thus to prepare for this requirement, you may need to start drafting some Memoranda of Agreements and Letters of Intent to qualify yourself for this requirement.

Once you have all the necessary modifications and polishing done on it, submit your proposal and hope for the best. Usually these proposal will take up to fourteen weeks to be scrutinized and looked over for viability. In the meantime while you wait you may also work on other things as well.

As such your proposal and application will be looked over and vetted by experts in the field. They will generate queries and such to be handed back to you for clarification but they will do this by setting up an interview panel with you. If you are scheduled for an interview panel to shed more light on what you are proposing then you are basically halfway 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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