A notorious pioneer in social innovation, Lisbon was the first European Capital in implementing the participatory budgeting. Up to an amount equivalent to 5% of the investment budget (which until this issue has been of five million euros) the Lisbon Participatory Budget (PB) runs along a cycle with several phases. As it is completely based …
Tag: assesment criteria
Checklist for a project website
Many calls for funding include already a website as a criterion. If not, the most part of communication plans are based in a website as the central point. Even if for small and short projects, other social media may be privileged, a website can give an enormous boost when trying to mobilize opinion and resources …
Kickstart your International Project
When working at an international level, “I have a project” is a recurring statement. However, many times the speaker has only “an idea for a project” or “a goal to be achieved by a project”. Therefore, setting the stage of what a project is comes as a natural step. In simple terms, an international project …
Project Management in under 8 minutes
Chris Croft is one of the UK’s leading trainers and provides a wide variety of courses designed to involve, inspire and motivate people of all levels. To date Chris has trained some 30 000 people. In this video, he defines how to define a project, in 12 steps: – define the project – list …
The i-logical framework
Both nightmare and best friend of any project manager, the logical framework (LFA) is one of the best known and more used tools in international Project management. At this point someone always says that “only in cooperation for development” and s/he is right and wrong at the same time. Right, because it is true that …
The only EU Project vocabulary you will ever need (II)
Last week I was in my cloud, trying to convey the same messages I give to my students when explaining the beauty (and the beast) of European projects. Half of the cloud is still to be decrypted: – Cross-cutting: the project proposal has to focus, but it can’t be self-centered. It has to demonstrate impact …
The only EU Project vocabulary you will ever need (I)
When I started writing EU projects, reading a call and the criteria that project proposals should fulfill, I felt like all those years of English Grammar were worth nothing. Digging in the internet, even before the times of Google, I found some guides and guidelines that I completed with seminars and consultations with the concerned …