I slowly build up information and content on different funding schemes. I started out with Horizon Europe Pillar II and have moved into European Defence Fund, ERC and Erasmus+. More is to come. The next two weeks I will be looking into proposal preparation within the Erasmus+ funding scheme.

As regular listeners will know I have developed The Timeline Series that goes through the proposal preparation process step-by-step. That is for Horizon Europe Pillar II proposals, but has a lot of generic elements that also apply to funding schemes in general. However, there are important specificities for each funding scheme and how to prepare the proposals.

To provide guidance on how to prepare a proposal for the Erasmus+ programme I have invited three strong capacities on Erasmus+ into the virtual podcast studio. Daiana Huber, Chief Operations Officer, CPIP, Christina Achilleos, Founder and EU Funding Expert, InnoEUspere and Ulla-Alexandra Mattl, Director & Consultant, Eurakom have all years of practical experience developing proposals for the Erasmus+ programme.

This first half of the double episode we dig into all the preparatory steps you need to do before the writing phase sets in, in order to have as smooth a proposal developing work as possible incl. idea development, developing the project concept, consortium building and how to best involve the partners in the developing phase.

In the second half the three panelists take the bull by its horns and share how they put their pen to paper. They give their recommendations on how to attack the different sections. And the budget, of course. In the end we shortly touch on the actual submission itself.

This is a must-listen for all Erasmus+ proposal developers – no matter the experience!

Time codes (part 1):

00:02:31 Introduction

00:09:56 Fly in on Erasmus+

00:15:07 Preparation for writing phase

00:23:33 Working with the partners

00:37:15 Concept note

00:46:14 Internal tools

00:53:30 Flow of work in-between the partners

Time codes (part 2):

00:02:32 Pen to paper - overall fly in

00:18:16 Key sections

00:33:25 Impact and sustainability of results

00:40:16 Submission

00:54:04 The toughest challenge