Download Project News June 2010 >>The new Survival Kit is ready! Getting

Project News
June 2010
>>The
new Survival Kit is ready!
Getting involved in a Multilateral Project financed by the European Union’ s Lifelong
Learning Programme or another type of European co-operation is not a perilous
adventure better to be avoided, as, at first glance, the title Survival Kit may suggest.
But many project actors will agree that the management of such projects poses multiple
challenges:
 The project must be soundly planned and constantly re-planned
 A special project organisation must be established
 Comprehensive administrative and reporting regulations of the EU funding
programme must be complied with
 Intercultural differences and pitfalls have to be dealt with
 An effective project team has to be formed out of a diverse group of people
 Virtual communication and collaboration through ICT tools have to be facilitated to
bridge the distance between project partners
 Project activities have to be thoroughly evaluated to ensure high quality
 And project results need to be effectively disseminated and exploited to create a
lasting impact on the field concerned.
The Survival Kit provides support in meeting these challenges.
The Survival Kit consists of two parts:
 Guidance publication
 Collection of project management
tools: templates, examples and
resources like partner agreements,
planning forms, reporting sheets,
checklists, or tools for evaluation and
dissemination
Both parts can now be downloaded from the
project website:
www.european-project-management.eu.
At present, the English version is ready.
German, French, Italian and Romanian
language versions will also be available soon.
>>The
old and the new Survival Kit
The present Survival Kit publication is the second of its kind.
In 1999/2000 A Survival Kit for European Project Management was produced. It
provided for the first time tailor-made project management advice to coordinators and
partners of centralised Socrates projects. Although the project at the time had rather
limited scope and resources the Survival Kit has been received very favourably by many
stakeholders and is still in use.
Despite the fact the Survival Kit became a valuable reference document and well-known
brand in the European lifelong learning community, much of its content is now quite
outdated after almost ten years since its production. Therefore a new guidance
publication on project management was developed for the new programme period 20072013 by a project funded under Grundtvig Accompanying Measures.
To this end, the Socrates Survival Kit was revised, substantially expanded, and in many
parts completely re-written.
>>Other
tools supporting European cooperation
Acting in professional and inter-institutional networks at local, national and European
level is an inevitable necessity in order to meet complex educational and organisational
challenges. Two publications, developed in projects funded by the Lifelong Learning
Programme, provide guidance and practical learning materials for networking and
network management. The Art of Networking and the Resource Pack for
Networkers can be downloaded or ordered on the website:
www.networks-in-education.eu
>>Project
partners
die Berater
Vienna, Austria
www.dieberater.com
University of Hull
Hull, United Kingdom
www.hull.ac.uk
Humap Ltd
Jyvaskyla, Finland
www.humap.com
CIMO
Helsinki, Finland
www.cimo.fi
Institutul Intercultural
Timisoara, Romania
www.intercultural.ro
>>Contact
Holger Bienzle
die Berater®
Wipplingerstrasse 32 / 23-26
A-1010 Vienna
Tel.: +43 1 532 45 45-0
Fax: +43 1 532 45 45-1145
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.dieberater.com
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This newsletter reflects the views of the authors only, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
If at any time, you do not wish to receive further information about this project, please
send an e-mail message to [email protected] with Re: Unsubscribe Survival Kit.