In this first episode of the ENCO Series I have Antonietta Pizza, Head of EU Project Units at ENCO, in the virtual podcast studio for a talk about the craft of turning ideas into proposals. Antonietta has years of experience as proposal writer and she will guide you through the role of the organisation in transforming promising ideas into strong and competitive European project proposals. You will hear how ENCO supports companies in interpreting EU funding priorities, aligning innovative concepts with call objectives, expected impacts, and evaluation criteria, and balancing ambition with feasibility from the very beginning.

The episode will walk you through the proposal development process, showing how ENCO contributes to idea refinement and writing process. Finally, through a success case, you will discover a concrete success story in which ENCO, acting as external proposal consultants, supported the writing and structuring of the proposal and helped turn it into a winning project.

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01:56 Guest introduction and fly in

05:10 The consultant perspective

08:56 Translating ideas into EU projects

12:56 Designing a strong proposal

22:28 Common proposal pitfalls

28:32 Success Story – LIGNOFUN