I have recently returned from Madagascar and Reunion after giving a 5-day training to Research Support Office members and to the University researchers. One of the key points that was raised from my audience was specific actions, tips and practices on how to identify competent and promising consortia to join […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
Horizon Europe or FP9 (its ugly name) the largest ever European Research and Innovation Programme has started to make its presence quite strong with the proposal suggested by EC and the discussions now going on about it between the Council and the European Parliament. Its structure is clear, its priorities […]
Horizon Europe or FP9 (the ugly name) Quality Evaluation Criteria ...

Introduction This topic will show how much budget is approximately spent in the development of failed proposals by the European research, i.e. for proposals that do not receive any funding from Horizon 2020. There are at the beginning some simple calculations (subtraction, division and multiplications) that will show to the […]
Why you must not fail in Horizon 2020 and how ...
I have just come back from EARMA conference that I have participated along with around 750 other participants. The event took place in Brusses mainly from 17th till 18th April 2018. This year, I was actually one of the presenters, giving a training on how to develop successful communication as well as […]
What I learned from the 24th EARMA conference

Most of us consider New Year as a new window of opportunity to change our way of own thoughts and actions and we have our resolution during the first days of New Year. For most of the people, it works as follows: We think what we want to change and […]
How to achieve your New Year’s Resolution as funding expert ...

This is a different training moment since I deal with an essential element that although is not directly linked with the development of successful grant applications, it is of paramount importance for mastering this. More specifically, for either evolving into great funding experts or for continuing being so, we need […]