A 2-day hands-on, participant centred training with ‘post-care’ offer on 16 & 17 November 2017 Ghent, Belgium (35 min. by train from Brussels Centre)

All Info & Registration: http://www.xlnce.eu/services/horizon-2020-training/

795 EUR (VAT Excluded). Early Bird 695 EUR (VAT Excluded) * Organisations that send more than one participant will get 20% fee reduction.

WHY THIS TRAINING?

The challenge-based Horizon 2020 is the largest programme of publicly funded Research & Innovation in the EU. Within, the newly published Work Programme of Societal Challenge ‘Clean, Secure and Efficient Energy’ 2018-2020 opens many excellent funding opportunities requiring excellent research and innovation collaborative actions across Europe devoted to building a low carbon, climate resilient future.

However, the Results of Horizon 2020 Interim Stakeholder Consultation and the “Report on the first results of H2020 projects on Energy Efficiency and System Integration” shows that the programme is:

• Very popular with high number of applicants competing for the limited resources

• Only the excellently prepared project proposals are selected, and

• Most project participants (over 70%) spent up to 40 days in grant preparation, with some even up to over 60 days!

With this in mind, the 2-day- training “Mastering the art of preparing an excellent proposal in the energy challenge (2018-2020)” by XLNCE Consultancy, was developed to give the participants the benefits of:

• Strengthening your knowledge on preparing a successful project

• Increasing your skills with efficiency of the overall grant preparation process, and

• Deepening your understanding on the H2020 Energy Challenge call

• Networking opportunity to meet fellow applicants from various countries, interested to apply in the same call

• ‘On-site’ project ideas outline review & recommendations from the XLNCE Consultancy Expert

• ‘After-care’ of project idea outline check by e-mail within 2 weeks after the training date

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?

This training is highly recommended for professionals from academia, researchers, research support services, SMEs, start-ups, large companies, public administration, professional associations, NGOs, consultancy companies, with some familiarity of the Horizon 2020 programme.

DETAILS OF THE EVENT

DAY 1 PROGRAM

08:30-09:00 Arrival & Registration

09:00-09:15 Welcome and event opening

09:15-09:30 Participants ‘Tour de Table’

09:30 – 10:00 Grand Tour of Horizon 2020

Programme Purpose; Structure of Pillars; Main Rules; Funding Rates; Types of Action; Partnership Requirements; Application Procedure; H2020 Interim Evaluation Key Results.

10:00 -10:30 Navigating through the Energy Challenge Work Programme 2018-2020

Aim, Policy Background and Challenge; Activities Focus Areas; Call for Proposals Overview; Call Topics Content

10:30-10:50 Refreshment break

10:50-11:30 Group Work 1 “How to develop a project idea matching a call topic”

Work in small groups to learn a technique to fast analyse a call topic, extract the most valuable information to be addressed in a project proposal, evaluate suitability of a call topic for different project ideas.

11:30-12:30 Group Work 2 “Developing a project idea outline” Work with project idea outline template, to exercise a way of quickly putting together ideas on paper for a concept that covers all the core elements as basis of further proposal development.

12:30-13:00 Discussion of Group Work results

13:00-14:00 Networking Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Preparing a winning project: Technical and Scientific Excellence, Impact, Implementation

Developing SMART Objectives, Addressing the Specific Challenge and Scope of a Call Topic, Defining Target Groups and Key Actors; Contribution to the Expected Impact, Measures to Maximise Impact; Effective Work Plan, composing a Pert Diagram, Gantt Chart, Defining Deliverables, Project Management.

15:00-15:20 Refreshment break

15:20-15:50 Building a Consortium roles, complementarity, management, decision making

15:50-16:10 Project Best Practices for: planning, milestones and risks

16:10-16:30 Effective Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation routes for outcomes

16:30-16:50 Good practice in estimating resources and preparing budget

16:50 – 17:00 Q&A

DAY 2 PROGRAM

08:30-09:00 Arrival

09:00-09:30 Learning from examples of successfully funded projects from H2020 – Energy (2016-2017)

Presentation with highlights from recent H2020- Energy projects having overall excellence to be selected for funding.

09:30-12:30 Group Work 3 “Crafting a successful project step by step” using the H2020 project development canvas.

Trainer: Erwin Mlecnik, innovation specialist

Hands-on exercise where participants work in small groups around the H2020 project development canvas. The canvas is purpose-adapted for an H2020-Energy project. excellent proposal. Emphasis is given to achieving overall excellence and tackling innovation.

(10:30-10:50 Refreshment break)

12:30-13:00 Discussion of Group Work results

13:00-14:00 Networking Lunch

14:00-14:30 Understanding the Evaluation Process & Award Criteria

Presentation from an experienced H2020 Evaluator.

14:30 – 15:00 From an Evaluator’s perspective: Advice ‘How to increase chances for success!’

Presentation from an experienced H2020 Evaluator with typical mishaps in proposals leading to lower score; advice for b results in each evaluation criteria.

15:00-15:20 Refreshment break

15:20-16:30 Group Work 4 “Ask the Expert”: project ideas review & recommendations

XLNCE Consultancy Expert provides ‘on-site’ review with recommendations.

Post-Care Offer for the Participants included in the training fee: project idea outline check by e-mail within 2 weeks after the training date.

16:30-17:00 Final Q&A, Training Certificates and closure of event

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