Date
22 Sep 2020
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30 Sep 2020
Location
Online
Target Group
Young Scientists (including PhD students), Scientists, Staff in International Offices/Grants Offices
Host
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany (LMU) in cooperation with the European Research and Project Office GmbH
Aiming to foster excellent research, tackle societal challenges and boost innovation in Europe, the European Union (EU) provides multiple funding opportunities for various target groups: be it individual scientists – at different stages of their career – or large-scale collaborative research teams.
The so called “Framework Programme for Research and Innovation” sets the financial, political and legal frame for the different individual funding schemes, which cover a wide array of thematic fields. With the current Framework Programme “Horizon 2020” still running until the end of this year, the EU has invested nearly €80 billion of funding into research and innovation activities over the past seven years. And the next, presumably even bigger programme “Horizon Europe” is already casting a shadow.
Subject & Speakers
This webinar series seeks to give an introduction to relevant EU programmes for educational and research project funding (e.g. individual grants, mobility grants, collaborative projects), while also providing practical tips on how to turn an idea into a successful project proposal and looking into strategies to maximise the impact of your research.
The series consists of four individual online modules taking place as lunch-time webinars during a two-weeks period starting on Tuesday, 22 September 2020, and ending on Wednesday, 30 September 2020 - further information on the focus of each session can be found below under "Programme". We recommend you join us for all four of our “lunchtime learning” sessions, but you are also free to sign up for individual courses.
For this online training series LMU has teamed up with experts from the European Research and Project Office GmbH (EURICE), one of Germany’s largest project management and technology consultancy offices for R&I projects. Bringing together more than 50 experts from various scientific and professional fields, the team has an extensive track record in providing support services to researchers and innovative companies through the entire life cycle of a project – from the first idea to successful communication and impactful exploitation of project outcomes.
Participants will receive a certificate of participation.
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Programme
TUESDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER 2020, 12-1 PM (CEST)
Module 1: Introduction to EU Funding Programmes
Brief introduction to relevant programmes for educational and research project funding
- Speaker
Jakob Haardt, Senior Research & Innovation Manager (EURICE)
- Target Group
Young Scientists; Staff in International Offices/Grants Offices
- Learning Objectives
- Overview of existing EU grant schemes
- Common aspects and differences of major EU funding programmes
- Addressing EU grant schemes within the academic career development
THURSDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2020, 12-1 PM (CEST)
Module 2: From idea to proposal
How to transfer excellent research ideas into competitive funding proposals
- Speaker
Jörg Scherer, Managing Director (EURICE)
- Target Group
Scientists; Staff in International Offices/Grants Offices
- Learning Objectives
- Aligning research concepts to specific programme requirements
- Transforming unstructured ideas into concrete funding proposals
- „From telling to selling“
TUESDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 2020, 12-1 PM (CEST)
Module 3: Horizon 2020: How to write a winning proposal
Introduction to successful strategies and best practices
- Speaker
Dr Vera Schneider, Senior Research & Innovation Manager (EURICE)
- Target Group
Scientists; Staff in International Offices/Grants Offices
- Learning Objectives
- Organising proposal writing
- Defining scope, objectives, key outputs
- Dos and Don’ts
- Addressing evaluation criteria
- Learnings from failures
WEDNESDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2020, 12-1 PM (CEST)
Module 4: Horizon 2020: Maximising Impact
Effective outreach strategies to increase the impact of research and innovation projects
- Speakers
Jörg Scherer, Managing Director & Stephanie Weber, Head of Communications & Marketing
- Target Groups
Scientists; Staff in International Offices/Grants Offices
- Learning Objectives
- The role of communication, dissemination and exploitation in maximising the impact of Horizon 2020 projects
- Central aspects of IP and innovation-related activities
- Main elements of convincing communication, dissemination and exploitation strategies
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Registration
We are very sorry, but the webinars are already fully booked.
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Report
From 22-30 September, the webinar series on EU Funding Programmes was implemented at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) in the form of four individual online modules taking place as lunch-time webinars. With the aim of giving an introduction to relevant EU programmes for educational and research project funding as well as providing practical tips on writing successful project proposal , experts from the European Research and Project Office GmbH (EURICE), shared their extensive knowledge of EU funding programmes with students and researches from the five EUGLOH partner universities. About 150 students and researches participated in one or more lunchtime webinar with over 100 participants in each session. They received an introduction on Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programme structures and rules as well as an overview on individual and collaborative funding opportunities. They also learning how to transfer their research ideas into competitive funding proposals and how to structure the different sections of their proposal. Furthermore, they got an idea of effective outreach strategies and communication tools in order to maximise the impact of their research and innovation projects. Overall, the webinar series generated a lot of interest and informal feedback and satisfaction surveys showed that participants were very satisfied with the learning outcomes. On a scale from 1-10 (being the lowest number and 10 being the highest), they rated the event with an average of 7.8 points and 90% of the participants in the course evaluation would recommend the event to others. One participant from University of Porto stated: “It was a pleasure to participate in the webinar because it was a great opportunity to learn a little more about EU Funding Programmes. We must congratulate LMU Munich for the excellent organisation, I believe that all colleagues enjoyed participating in this course marked by the quality of the speakers and contents.”