LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, the student is able to: - know the main European direct and indirect financing programs; - understand the contents of European funding calls, knowing how to grasp the main elements necessary for submitting an application; - know the essential know-how to manage a European project

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide skills with a technical-practical content aimed at generating the project idea and at the first assessment of consistency with the call for proposals. Attention will also be paid to skills:

1. of project management for the coordination of activities, objectives, and results expected from the project;
2. basic accounting and finance, useful for budgeting and administrative management;
3. of management, communication, and networking for the coordination of partnerships and for the management of relations with stakeholders.

PREREQUISITES

Desire to get involved and, if possible, own a laptop.

Basic knowledge of one of the EU working languages: English, French, German.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures and training will alternate constantly. The lectures will provide the necessary theoretical-technical tools of the European designer; the exercitations will be aimed both at putting knowledge into practice and at finding and resolving doubts and problems, so to be also aimed to constitute a moment of self-assessment. The exercitations will be based on the compilation of parts of application forms and on the group discussion of individual students’ proposals. The constant alternation of lectures and exercitations requires a certain diligence in attendance.

The course timetible will be available ath the beginning of September.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

• The European Union: fundamental principles and evolution (outlines).
• EU founding Programmes: ratio, elements and subdivision.
• European Structural Funds and directly managed programmes: main peculiarities.
• EU founding Programmes 2021-2027.
• Access to European Programmes: criteria and methods.
• The life cycle of the European project: the design phases from the identification to the development of the proposal.
• Elements of the application form: European added value, eligibility criteria, activities, outcomes, outputs, monitoring, quality, dissemination, etc.
• Realization and reporting of the project (outlines).

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Slides and materials of the lectures will be available on Aulaweb.

For those wishing to deepen the theoretical aspects, the following volumes are suggested:

• Guida alla formulazione e gestione dei progetti europei: il modello eU-maps, a cura di Marco Amici e Federico Porcedda, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2020 (disponibile anche in e-book);
• Luciano Monti, I fondi europei: Guida al Next GenerationEU e al QFP – Quadro finanziario pluriennale 2021-2027, Roma, Luiss University Press, 2021.