Coaching of EU-funded projects
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Free Resources to help you write an application and manage your project:
Below you find a short description of tools that we either developed ourselves or adapted from EU provided templates and found helpful for either preparing an EU research application or managing an EU funded project.
Project Card
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The “Project Card” allows to develop a short introduction on your project idea, it covers the following points:
- Existing partners
- Call Reference
- Project idea
- Background & Approach
- Project Objectives
- Expected Outcome
- Work Packages
- Innovation
- Impact
- Benefits
- Main products
- Dissemination
- Project Duration
- Deadline for the application
- Expected Funding
- Author/Reviser
The idea is to always have only very short sentences for each bullet point and the whole Project Card ideally covers just 2 pages DIN A4.
During the proposal writing phase, the Project Card could be used to address additional partners to join the consortium or win interested parties to sign a Letter of Intent to cooperate with the proposed project as pilot user once the solution has been developed.
Once the project has been funded, the Project Card can easily be adjusted to serve an initial dissemination paper.
Resource Matrix Template
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A set of interlinked XLS based tables that allow you to plan you labour resources in detail, calculate your costs and develop the Project GANTT.
With some small changes, each partner can transform the labour planning table to map their own resource spending against the original task allocation. This will facilitate the financial reporting to the programme office.
Potential Risks Table
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The Potential Risks Table will be asked for in most application forms to evaluate how the consortium is prepared consider and address future challenges to the project’s performance. Our template table already offers some “standard” risks and answer on how to react on them, such as e.g. loss of productivity due to communication breaks or lack of pilot user cooperation due to their status of not being bound by a contract to the funding programme.
Dissemination Table
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Our Dissemination Table is based on tables requested by some of the current programmes and gives a few examples of what can be reported and how.
Business Matrix Canvas - example for HEI
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Many programmes expect the project to develop a post-project dissemination and exploitation plan. This is especially hard for non-profit organisation or pure research institutions, since they normally do not develop any business plans.
Our template gives an example of how Business Matrix Canvas could look like for a university.