“Tour de ERA workshops” were going on

On 29^th – 30^th April 2019 Centre for Scientific and Technical Information (CVTI) of the Slovak Republic organised two-day workshop in the frame of Tour de ERA events which was initiated by the national project SK4ERA.

Tour de ERA event consisted of 5 two-day events in 5 Slovak cities – Žilina, Banská Bystrica, Košice, Nitra, Bratislava in which the Horizon 2020 themes were presented according to the long-term thematic profile of each city.

The first day of workshop in Bratislava was dedicated to the introduction of the European Research Area (ERA) programs such as Erasmus+, Interreg (European Regional Development Fund), Visegrad funds, COST followed by Horizon 2020 areas: safe, clean and efficient energy, innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises, climate action, the environment, resource efficiency and raw materials.

The second day was devoted to a practical part – an interactive workshop “How to prepare and get a quality project in the EU Horizon 2020” program. The workshop was aimed at gaining practical skills in preparing H2020 project application (planning, consortium, partner – coordinator, excellence – impact – implementation, budget) and addressing specific problems and failures in writing H2020 projects.

For the FunGlass Centre, assoc. prof. R. Klement, Dr. M. Hujová, Dr. A. Chrastinová and M. Šandrejová, MBA participated in workshop.