How to Develop a Convincing Project Strategy for EU Funding: Dos and Donts for Local and Regional Ac

This seminar will address many issues and provide participants with practical advice and techniques, as well as allowing them to exchange experiences. The seminar will consequently enable them to produce a convincing proposal, to establish sustainable local and regional partnerships and strategies and align them to the Lisbon targets, to build capacities and communicate results, and hence to develop added value projects for their territory. Thus it will allow local and regional participants to quickly grasp the most relevant guiding principles and rules when it comes to preparing a bid for EU funding and to increasing its absorption capacity. A specific glossary of the main EU financing instruments screened from the local and regional actors’ perspective will be provided to each participant (seminar kit) and their web-links provided. In addition, participants will be equipped with a sample of “project proposals” devised from previous seminars to illustrate how such dossiers may look like (Do’s) and where possible obstacles are encountered (Don’ts). Finally, this seminar will offer the participants a unique opportunity to network with peers with the same interest and from various nationalities and give them the potential to identify new partners for future projects.