Pages

Thursday 10 May 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.

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 polished up your application then the next step will be to submit this on time and hope for the best. Your application will take at most fourteen months to reviewed and scrutinized before you get any, so while you are waiting it is best to get busy doing something else.

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.

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.




About the Author:



No comments:

Post a Comment