Olsztyn Department
TBF SC Department I
1 Westerplatte Street
10-446 Olsztyn
phone/fax 089 535 89 38
mobile 0 507 054 712
e-mail: olsztyn@tbf.com.pl

TBF SC
12 Lecha Street
03-610 Warszawa
phone/fax 022 679 66 22
phone/fax 022 678 34 13
phone/fax 022 678 34 23
phone/fax 022 678 58 76
mobile 0 602 329 808
e-mail: biuro@tbf.com.pl

Katowice Department:
TBF SC Department II
26 Kopernika Street
40-064 Katowice
phone 032 77 60 140
fax 032 77 66 144
mobile 0 502 423 780
e-mail: katowice@tbf.com.pl

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European Union Funds

We invite you to participate in training related to grants for investment projects from EU funds. We invite representatives of small and medium-sized companies who are looking for opportunities to co-finance investment projects. New UE programs are targeted to entrepreneurs who plan to purchase new machinery and equipment, invest in innovative products and intend to modernize and expand the plant. Training will be conducted by practitioners who are experienced in the preparation of projects and policies. The aim of training is to prepare participants to prepare application to EU.

HOW TO GET THE GRANT?
FINANCING FROM THE EU structural funds FROM THE Practitioner’s POINT OF VIEW

Workshops Schedule

I. Structural Funds of the European Union - introduction:

1. What are the Structural Funds?

2. The objectives and priorities of the Community Policy (Strategic Guidelines, the Lisbon Strategy and the National Strategic Reference Framework)

3. The National Development Plan for 2007 - 2013 and operational programs (national and regional) in the new programming period - characteristic of selected issues

II. Applying for grants - introduction

1. How to search for information about funding?

2. How to choose the appropriate program?

Analysis of programming guidelines and instructions how to prepare the application:

2.1 Who can apply for funding?

2.2 What can be financed? The eligibility of expenditures

2.3 What things to focus on while planning application for the grant?

III. Applying for grants - the practical preparation of the project:

1. Project and the application

2. Creating a project using the active design method and logical matrix of a project:

2.1 Language of a project, the basic concept

2.2 Case analysis (problems tree)

2.3 Analysis of aims (aims tree)

- justification of the need for the implementation of the project - how and what we do?

- justification for the type of planned actions

2.4 Outcomes

- "Hard" and "soft",

- Measuring outcomes - indicators of outcomes, impact

- added value

2.5 Logical Matrix of the project

2.6 Schedule of actions

2.7 planning expenses and financial engineering – what things requires your special attention?

2.8 Monitoring and evaluation

IV. Applying for grants – preparation of application and a business plan:

1. Generator of applications and SIMIK system

2. Filling in the application

3. Validate the application and its own assessment of opportunities

4. preparation of a business plan

5. preparation of annexes

6. apply

V. Steps of application evaluation

1. Formal evaluation

2. technical and economic evaluation

3. Merits

VI. Grant agreement, chance of making changes to the project

VII. Elements of project management

1. Project team

2. Partners and subcontractors

3. Financial management

4. Promotion of the project

5. Documents flow

6. Reporting and Monitoring

7. Settlement

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