eCourse based on live recordings on guidance and how to pre-evaluate a collaborative grant application in Horizon Europe  

 Learning Objectives and structure 

Learning Objectives

• How to pre-screen RIA and IA proposals, including a step by step guide and checklist for pre-screening proposals
• How to decipher the bigger picture when addressing a project, in relation to the strategic plan;
• Must Dos and Must Don’ts for a wining proposal
• How to evaluate a great idea for a specific call in Horizon Europe Pillar 2
• How to decipher intelligently a specific call topic and provide proper guidance to potential applicants
• How to evaluate a proposal summary and set strong foundations for a highly competitive proposal
• How to evaluate the consortium and suggest the top partners for a high value consortium
• How to evaluate the full proposal as EC evaluator or NCP
• How to provide guidance for building top-notch grant application section per section

Structure

Our training consist of one full day training that can be splitted in two half sessions of ~ 3.5 hours each without breaks.

Module 1 – Evaluation Essentials:

• How to think and act like an evaluator
• How evaluators are impressed in general from an Horizon Europe Proposal

Module 2 – How to evaluate the Excellence Section

• How the Excellence sections should be evaluated
• How evaluators are impressed by the Excellence section

Module 3- How to evaluate the Implementation Section

• How the Implementation section should be evaluated
• How evaluators are impressed by the Implementation section

Module 4- How to evaluate the Impact Section

• How the Impact section should be evaluated
• How evaluators are impressed by the Impact section

The above session is based on hands-on practice based on extracts from actual proposals in Horizon Europe.

UNIQUE BONUS

Bonus 1: Lifetime access to the video recordings and the training content

About the instructor: Dr. Nikolaos FLORATOS 

Nikolaos Floratos has a multidisciplinary education with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from City University London, a Bachelor of Humanities in Greek Civilisation from Open Hellenic University, a master of science in Telecommunications and Signal Processing from Imperial College, London and he is recently awarded his  PhD in Humanities on student engagement in massive open online courses from Open University of Catalonia. After his undergraduate and postgraduate studies with distinction as engineer in London (Imperial College, City University), UK, has been working for a number of consultancy and Information Technology companies as consultant and project manager across Europe. He has also an MBA (Master in Business Administration from National Technical University of Athens and Athens University of Economics and Business) and the last 24 years he is involved in planning, managing and evaluating large and small projects in the area of research, education, ICT (Information Communication Technologies), social inclusion, entrepreneurship, standardization and consumer issues.  As a funding expert, personal trainer and coach, he has supported thousands of researchers/individuals and research organisations mainly from Europe but also from all over the world on managing public funding including support from MSCA different grant schemas and receive support for fullfiling their mission and vision in research.  He is an expert on behalf of the European Commission on evaluating and reviewing projects and proposals since 2003 and  recently, he has received his PhD on how you can increase students' engagement and motivation in eLearning courses. He is the creator of the Funding Expert Transfomation Process™ system that can transform anyone to a great proposal writer and project manager of european funded projects. He has received more than 2000 recommendations and endorsements at his linkedin profile (www.linkedin.com/in/floratos) as a funding expert, coach and trainer. He is also listed in the top first three search results by google as "Funding expert”. He recently created the Open Cosmos platform that scales up in auto-pilot the success of an organization in Horizon Europe via an unlimited number of external evaluations, unlimited access to all our top-notch trainings and live interactions with other experts and think alike researchers.