Thursday, May 10, 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 announcements for calls for proposals on the internet or even in standard paper dailies. On the internet they are usually placed in government websites and fund agency sites. In general the proposals cover multi discipline studies, but sometimes they will specify if they need a specific discipline or field only. Determine where your proposal will fit and study the submission guidelines and also deadlines for it. These call for proposals usually occur during the first half of any given year.

Get a proposal or grant expert to look over your proposal before your submission. Many experts who are familiar with such things are out there can help you out for a fee, or sometimes they will ask you to make them part of the project team as well. Usually the latter is the more common form of payment and so you should expect another person on your team should the proposal push through.

Get local European partners for your proposal, as this probably one of the main requirements for it to be funded. It is best that you have already identified a potential nongovernmental or even governmental organization on your proposal and have gotten their nod also. Thus it might be a good idea to have a Memorandum of Agreement or Letter of Intent handy with your prospective partner prior to your s submission.

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.

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.

Funding panel interviews will usually have three to five experts present who will query you or your team on the proposal that you have submitted. They can ask some very interesting questions but you can prepare for these beforehand. Main points on the proposal will focus on viability, monitoring and evaluation, and an impact analysis study provision at the end of the project cycle. If you are able to focus on these or at least strengthen these components then you have a good chance of passing.

If you passed the interview and given the grant, expect this to start usually within a month's time. Do not of course expect the money to be just handed over to you right away. This is usually still contingent on your submission of a project timeline with man hour computations, as well as terms of references of team members at present as well as for those that will be joining you later on.




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