Course 4292

How to Write a Competitive Proposal for Horizon 2020

This course is organized in cooperation with

EuroCenter, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation

Copenhagen

Thursday

12th June 2014

9:30 to 13:00

Workshop Presenter: Dr. Sean McCarthy Hyperion Ltd, Ireland

Venue of course: Venue will be sent in Booking Confirmation

To book a place simply send an email to mary.mccarthy@hyperion.ie

Course Fee: This includes tuition, documentation, morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea. Participants are responsible for their own accommodation.

	400 euro per participant
	3000 DKKR per participant

Overview of the Course

The aim of this half-day course is to train researchers, research managers and research support services in writing professional and competitive proposals for the Horizon 2020. The course describes the relevance of Horizon 2020 to EU policies, the common problems in proposal writing and the success criteria for proposals. The course provides tips on how to collect information, how to select strategic partners and how to avoid duplication in proposal writing. The final section describes a strategy for proposal writing.

Course Presenter: Sean McCarthy www.hyperion.ie/seanmccarthy.htm

Module 1: Political Background to Horizon 2020

	Who decided the Structure of Horizon 2020
	Who prepared the workprogrammes for the Research Priorities
	Who's Who in the Technology Platforms
	Background to the Evaluation Criteria
	Key websites on the Who's Who in Horizon 2020

Module 2: Structure and Terminology used in Horizon 2020

	Sources of Information on Horizon 2020
	The Structure of Horizon 2020
	Terminology used in Horizon 2020

Module 3: How Proposal are Evaluated

	Evaluation Criteria for Horizon 2020 Proposals
	The Evaluation Process
	The Evaluation Manual and the Forms used by Evaluators
	The role of the ‘Expert Evaluator’ + how to become an 'Expert'
	Key websites and documents on the Evaluation of H2020 Proposals

Module 3: The One Page Proposal

	Structure of a One-Page-Proposal
	The 5 Key Questions (Background to the proposal)
	Sources of information for the one page proposal
	Sample One Page Proposal

Module 5 How to Streamline Proposal Writing

	Step by Step guide to preparing a proposal
	How ideas for research proposals are identified
	How to kill ‘bad’ ideas
	Templates for managing the writing of the proposal

Module 6: How to Write the ‘Potential Impact’ of the Proposal

	Background to ‘Potential Impact’
	Template for writing the ‘Impact’
	Example of ‘Potential Impact’
	Ten Routes for Exploiting Research Results
	Websites to write the ‘Potential Impact’

Module 7: How to Find the Best Partners

	Which countries can participate ?
	The different roles in the consortium
	The role of the coordinator
	How to find best partners.
	Key websites to select the ‘Strategic Partners’

Programme Designer and Presenter

The programme will be presented by Dr. Sean McCarthy of Hyperion Ltd (www.hyperion.ie). Sean has been active in the Framework programmes since 1980. He has been involved in over 150 research proposals to the Framework programmes and has participated in over 60 Framework projects. In 16 of these projects he was the coordinator. Four of Hyperion contracts has been audited by the European Commission. Today he does not participate in the Framework programmes but concentrates on designing and delivering training courses for organizations who participate in the programmes. Since 1998 over 30,000 participants have attended his courses in 27 countries. He has presented training courses on the Framework programmes in over 210 research centres throughout Europe (www.hyperion.ie/clients.htm). More details can be found on www.hyperion.ie/seanmccarthy.htm