Project Management

By listening to this fast track webinar, draw up an effective Consortium Agreement for your H2020 project.

We will guide you through the different sections of the DESCA 2020 model and explain what and how to include it. Our speakers will introduce real-life scenarios with problematic and challenging situations in H2020 projects where the specific clauses of the Consortium Agreement had to be used.

This online course is not only for lawyers. This course is also for project managers or coordinators like You, who want to understand how an effective Consortium Agreement can help you in solving issues during the implementation. Because there will be issues, for sure…! 

Discussion topics: 

• Proposal phase: preparing the Consortium Agreement; 
• Grant Agreement vs. Consortium Agreement;
• Model Consortium Agreements: DESCA 2020, EUCAR and MCARD-2020 as well as other support structures;
• DESCA 2020 model: how to address decision-making procedures and management structures, financial and budgetary issues, risk management and conflict resolution mechanisms, IPR and exploitation issues and the Background of the partners in the Consortium Agreements.

The webinar is accessible for 90 days after the purchase under "My Account".

This presentation will discuss key tasks, tools, and procedures that you need to know before you start implementing the project – on an organisational level (formulate the work and roles internally) and on a consortium level (what would make you a good coordinator).

Setting up the project management tools – what to use:

-A web platform or a package of Word and Excel templates?

-Is it better to use web-based communication, telcos or f2f events?

-How many, how often?

The presentation will also introduce  basic templates for monitoring the performance of your consortium and will guide you through every step of the kick-off meeting.

The webinar is accessible for 90 days after the purchase under "My Account".
 

The kick-off meeting is the inaugural event for starting your project activities. As such, you need to be fully prepared to guide and prepare your partners for it. We show you how.

If you are the coordinator, you need to make sure two things:

1) the project implementation system and procedures are set up and everyone knows what they have to do

2) you build up a collaboration between your partners that makes the implementation smooth. If you are a partner, attending the kick-off meeting will be a chance for you to present your stance on the project activities and offer your view and expertise on how those can be implemented. We will show you how to achieve this.

Topics to discuss:  

• Preparing for the kick-off meeting - who to invite, how to develop the agenda, things to address.
• The day of the kick-off meeting - how to maximise the outcome of your meeting, what are the steps after you need to take.  
• Look at some examples from our projects and useful templates for your kick-off meeting.

Explore how to efficiently organise your kick-off meeting and understand which topics you need to consider. 

The webinar is accessible for 90 days after the purchase under "My Account".

A few basic issues to understand when it comes to preparing yourself to coordinate research and innovation projects. The templates we refer to are not linked in the document. Check our Templates section below.

What are the official tasks of a coordinator? Is there anything else based on reality? Check the details.

A folder of project management tools, which you, as a coordinator, prepare for your partners to support their everyday administration of work progress, financial and technical reporting, archiving, etc.

Good and smooth management asks for some practical tools and templates to keep track of your project implementation and deliver your project results on time and in quality.

Based on our experience, we selected a set of tools to help you out at different stages of your project implementation. Discover tips and tricks and a few “weapons”, at each step, for smoother management and coordination of your ongoing or future EU projects.

The webinar is accessible for 90 days after the purchase under "My Account".

Are you dreading your upcoming project review meeting? This webinar will cover all the stages in preparation for your review meeting.

Explore what happens in the period before the review, how to prepare yourself and your partners, how the review process goes and what to do when you find out the outcome of your review.

Our speaker will share with you some practical examples from previous reviews and also provide you with the best tips and tricks on how to get prepared. This webinar is not only for coordinators, work package leaders, and project partners can join to learn how the review meeting is structured and how to get prepared more easily.  

Discussion topics:

• Prepare for your review- description of EC procedure, how to prepare your presentations, agenda, how to do a ‘test run’ with your consortium.
• Learn what happens during the review- protocol, what to expect from the reviewers and Project officer.
• The day after- Expert review report, how to handle the changes required in the report, best tips and tricks from our experience.

Gain information on how the review process is managed from the EC, what to expect and how to prepare yourself to deliver an effective presentation and how to handle the outcome of the review meeting.

The webinar is accessible for 90 days after the purchase under "My Account".