Some Information For Project Funding Europe

By Joshua Barnes


Probably as you are reading this right now you are searching for funds so that your project can push through. In fact you are quite excited about the viability of your proposal and the feasibility study attached to it, and all you will need for the final push for it to be realized is project funding Europe. Thus if you are looking for funds to get your project off the ground do read on for some information about European based funds.

Look out for Call for Proposals for funding on the internet, usually on the fund agencies sites. Usually these are general calls for proposals covering multi disciplinary fields while some calls for very specific projects for funding. See where yours will fit in and submit accordingly by the guidelines once you have polished it up. Project proposal calls for funds usually occur in the first six months of every year.

It may be a good idea for your proposal to be looked over by a grant application expert before you submit. Many experts for grant proposal writing exist out there and they may charge a modest fee to help spruce up your application. Some do not charge fees however, but expect to be made part of the project team once it is approved.

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.

At the interview panel, there will usually be five experts to ask you questions. Thus you should be there with a select few members of your team as well should they ask very specific questions. You an prepare in general for this interview by brushing up on your ideas about viability, how the parameters will be monitored and evaluated, and if there will be an impact analysis done as a follow up once the project ends. These parts of the interview are usually given heavy weight in terms of points.

Grants will be awarded usually within a month if you passed the panel interviews. But they do not just hand the money to you outright. They will of course require additional documents from you like project planning worksheets and man hour computations as well as the terms of reference for each member of the project team and also for any future members that you may want on board.




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