How can we design projects and activities that support our organisations’ challenges in a forward-looking and sustainable perspective? How can we ensure that the innovative methods that we pilot in projects are, on one hand, responding to the main priorities identified at the European and national levels, while also resulting in long-term improvements in our services and communities?

In this training, we will tackle the core processes that support designing successful, sustainable and impactful initiatives in the field of adult education, to tackle our long-term goals while also aligning with the main requirements of broader priorities and funding programmes. We will explore together effective techniques to analyse contextual needs, on the one hand, and existing funding schema, on the other, and to define project requirements to build a bridge into meaningful actions. We also work together, in small groups, to develop challenge-based demo proposals, from concept to work plan, based on existing funding schema, also looking at good practices on more technical aspects, such as budgeting, tasks design and dissemination.

The training will target staff developing EU project applications in the area of adult learning and education. While the main focus of the training will be on Erasmus+ KA2 project applications, the exercises used can also support participants in preparing applications for projects with other funding sources.