2° Meeting Bad Urach (Germany)

Date: Monday, 22nd of May 2017 until Friday, 26th of May 2017
Participants: European partners of Starkmacher e.V.
Location: Haus auf der Alb Hanner Steige 1 72574 Bad Urach
Responsible: Mathias Kaps, Starkmacher e.V. Angelika Barth, Trainer from LpB
Trainers: Ermanno Perotti, Starkmacher e.V. Giovanni Zambon, Starkmacher e.V.
Organizer: Starkmacher e.V. Seckenheimer Haupstraße 72 68239 Mannheim
info@starkmacher.eu www.starkmacher.eu

Meeting program

Monday May 22th 2017
How the European Union works.

  • Introducing the European union
  • The European Parlament
  • The European Council
  • The European Commission
  • The National Parlaments
  • Future of the European Union
  • Leisure Activities

Tuesday May 23rd 2017
Project Design and its complexity

  • Fundamentals of Project Cycle Management – PCM
  • Human being at the center of programming
  • Ideas beyond the Project
  • Goals Oriented Project Plan Methodology – GOPP
  • Analysis Phase
  • Intervention Definition
  • Logical Framework Analysis
  • I won! Managing the Project
  • Activities Begin
  • Consortium Agreement
  • Project Manager’s duties
  • Group Work

Wednesday May 24th 2017
Project Design Simulation – Europe for Citizens

  • Project Design Simulation
  • How to write clearly
  • Think before you write
  • Focus on the reader
  • Get your documents into shape
  • KISS: Keep It Short and Simple
  • Make sense
  • Cut of excess nouns
  • Be concrete, not abstract
  • Prefer active verbs to passive
  • Beware of false friends, jargon and abbreviations
  • Revise and check
  • Group works

Thursday May 25th 2017
Europe 2020 a. Europe 2020 Strategy and Budget b. European Programs

  • Erasmus +
  • Horizon2020
  • Life2020
  • Creative Europe
  • EUAid
  • EU project management
  • Project Design Simulation

Friday May 26th 2017
Presentation of Group Works and Evaluation of the Simulation
Feedback and future cooperation