Navigating an EU Research Project

C.-Andreas Dalluege is the founder and managing partner of IBK Group in Wiesbaden, Germany, the Chairman of EuroBEN - European Business Excellence Network e.V., and a national council member of the Irish Work-Study Institute. Over the last 20 years, he has worked as an assessor for the European Excellence Award (now the EFQM Global Award) and is a certified advisor and trainer of EFQM. Since 2014, he has been an operating partner and trainer of the Initiative Ludwig-Erhard-Preis (ILEP).Andreas is a recognized expert on Business Excellence and, since 2010, has given regular yearly lectures on this and related topics at various colleges and universities across Europe, including Aschaffenburg, Barcelona, Karlsruhe, and Pristina. Additionally, he is a lecturer at TH Aschaffenburg, where he teaches how to write EU proposals and manage resulting projects based on his experiences with around 35 EU projects since 1990. He also supports similar workshops and classes at several European universities.Professor John Wells, PhD, FAAN, FNMFRCSI (Ad Eundem), is the Dean of the School of Health Sciences at the South East Technological University. He is a member of the National Research Ethics Committee for Clinical Trials in Ireland and a board member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and Safety Management Systems, advising the Institute on employee well-being. Professor Wells is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a Fellow Ad Eundem of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Senior International Fellow. He holds visiting professorships at University College Dublin, Ireland, King’s College London, UK, and Maribor University, Slovenia. An active and successful researcher, he is the principal investigator for an EU4Health-funded project on enhancing the digital skills of the pan-European healthcare workforce.

• Introduction: What this book is about and why we wrote it.- Preparing to make an EU application.- Writing Your Application and navigating the EU submission process.- Notification of Outcome and Contracts.- Starting the project.- Implementing the project.- Managing the unforeseen Risk – the COVID-19 ‘Lockdown’ and the SSTeMM Project.- Reporting and promoting the outcomes of your project to stakeholders and evaluators and drafting the final report.- Reflections on the SSTeMM Project Experience.- Concluding Messages.