Tips & tricks for your project applications

Tips & tricks for your project applications

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  Tips & Tricksfor your project application Ildiko Mazar, Deputy Secretary General, EDEN Bratislava, 1 June 2016
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  The largest activeand developing professional community of open, distance and e-learning in Europe  The most comprehensive European not-for-profit non- governmental association of its kind, established in 1991  Platform for professional co-operation and information exchange  Open for all levels and sectors of education and training  Open for institutions, individuals and networks  Registered in the UK, Secretariat in Hungary since 1997 2 /14
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   EDEN AnnualConferences since 1992 Budapest, 14-17 Jun 2016  Open Classroom Conferences Since 1995  Research Workshops Oldenburg, 4-7 Oct 2016  Synergy Workshops Specific strands since 2013 The EDEN Conferences 3 /14
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  EDEN’s EU projects TALOE  ARMAZEG  Carer+  EMPORT  E-SOLVE  STAY-IN  EduWorks  Revive-VET  POERUP  eLene2learn  NEST  MOVE-ON  SEVAQ+  EquNet  HEXTLEARN  Learnovation  eTTCampus  Rural Wings  OpenPROF  D-Transform  eLene4work  OBN  DigiSkills  T-MAIL  LACE  LeHo  ODS 4 /14
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  What to keepin mind  How to identify the right call?  How to assemble a solid partnership?  What makes an application a winner?  How to define key performance indicators?  What is dissemination and exploitation anyway?  Managing time  Human resources  Financial planning 5 /14
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  Find the rightcall 6 /14
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  Project partnership 7 /14 Diversity of skills and competences  Vested interest and commitment  Wide geographical representation  Know 75% of your partnership  Seek new collaborators  Find new partners by personal recommendations  Establish a second line of supporters (Associate Partners, Board of Experts)
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  Application writing 8 /14 Are you eligible to apply?  Are you registered on the Participant Portal? Get a PIC No .  Make a time plan and check list (DoWs, LoMs, DoHs, etc.)  Address key objectives and priorities  Lead but collaborate
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  What will youachieve?  Determine qualitative and quantitative indicators We’ll print 5000 leaflets We’ll engage 500 teachers  Set attainable goals 10000 web page views 10 newsletters reach X readers  Assign reasonable deadlines Web portal ready by M2 Regular revision of Dissem. Plan  Thought experimentation: What’s your main message? How many stakeholders can you potentially reach? How many can you engage? How many can you ‘convert’? 9 /14
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  Dissemination, sustainability  Havea clear vision and mission statement  Have it agreed within the partnership – work together  Identify your key primary and secondary target audiences  Identify key messages and services of benefit (SHA)  Push information, pull contribution from target audiences  Use social media wisely and effectively  Be genuine, human, try to suppo rt instead of pro m o te  Find incentives to increase participation, reward support  Record your achievements as you go  Start planning your project’s afterlife at the start 10 /14
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  Time and HRmanagement 11 /14  Make a time plan  Coordinate the work by 1 person  Start with the big picture  Identify the building blocks, proceed stage by stage  Assign sections to partners  Work together in a transparent way  Leave time for streamlining and proofreading
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  Financial planning  Becreative and flexible, but always precise  Identify compulsory and optional cost items  Separate intellectual work (staff cost, IOs) from operation  Have suggestions first, then discuss them with partners  Use real rates (salaries, production, room/tech hire, etc.)  Have low cost alternatives (e-newsletters and downloadable publications instead of print, combine PM & public events) 12 /14
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  Final steps 13 /14 Ask a knowledgeable colleague to play external evaluator  Check your boxes and save back-ups  Sleep on it and still aim to submit days in advance  Make sure your submission was successful – have you received a confirmation?  Thank your partners for the collaboration and send them a copy of the final application and submission confirmation  Read the evaluation report and discuss it with your partners  Appreciate and learn from evaluator feedback
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  www.eden-online.org Thank you foryour attention Good luck with your applications More information on EDEN, its services and projects: 14 /14