Application for Funds and Assessment There are numerous funding streams available around the world that you can tap into. Without going into details of the specific funding streams, this session presents the various things you need to do, no matter what funding you are applying for You will learn to:

• Develop the records and company information you need to have to hand to be able to respond quickly to funding opportunities
• Demonstrate due diligence
• Ensure your funding application meets the needs of the funding body
• How to ensure value for money
• How to cover all your costs
• How to make you stand out from your competitiors

Course Overview:

Even small or medium-sized companies can benefit from funding through grants (direct funding), structural funds or through financial instruments (indirect types of funding.) Funding through grants is mostly thematic with specific objectives; environment, education, training designed by various departments of the European Commission, World Bank, International Development Bank or executive agencies. Each policy area is linked with a site which provides all the necessary information about deadlines, the amounts available and requirements needed.

What is covered:

• Where to go to register interest for funding
• What sort of business is best suited to what sort of funding?
• How to read the specifications of the funding body and how to hone your response to meet the requirements
• Where funding meets procurement
• What is preferential procurement and how can you benefit?
• Example of a Project Plan
• Procurement Strategy Template
• Reference Check Forms
• Site Visit Check Forms
• Pre Qualification Questionnaires – how to maximise your visibility
• PQQ Guidance Notes – what to ask and what not to ask
• Invitation to Tender (ITT)
• ITT Low Value Purchases
• Instructions to Tenderers
• Technical Proposals
• Tender Marking & Justification Forms