6. BBS Strengths
6 established research centres
Over 70 full-time academic
30 full-time academic members of staff
already active in research with a track
record of acquired grants
Over 30 prestigious grants acquired
Cooperation with over 16 funding
agencies / donors
9. The process (I)
Generate a database of funding bodies
Subscribe alert services related to
funding opportunities
Periodically interact with available
contacts in the funding bodies to explore
potential opportunities
Provide advice and support to funding
bodies strategy definition
10. The process (II)
Create, update and share a listing of
opportunities for BBS internal
consumption
Map current research activities and
interests at individual level so as to
address suitable opportunities to the
individual researcher
Provide support in the scoping and
structuring of proposals
11. The process (III)
Provide support in the development of
the proposal in terms of:
liaison with the funding body officers
quality assurance
partners/collaborators identification
preparation of the budget
liaison with RSDO and UKRO
12. The process (IV)
Organise networking events with funding
bodies representatives
Organise seminars on proposal / bid
writing
Provide support for the:
reshape and resubmission of previous
proposals
analysis of the proposal evaluation
Identification of previously undetected weak
points and potential remedy
14. Recommendations (I)
Create a database of contacts for the
identification of potential Partners
classified per:
Nature (NGO, Universities, PA, Industry,
SMEs, etc.)
Domain of expertise
Kind of contact
Person & role (decisional, operative, etc.)
Responsiveness
15. Recommendations (II)
Create a DB of prior projects holding:
Description of the concept
Proposal & DoW
Deliverables
Partnership
Results & achievements
Lessons learned
Performances (HR, financial, etc.)
16. Recommendations (III)
Create a DB of prior proposals holding:
Description of the concept
Partnership
Evaluation results
Analysis of strong/weak points
Reference material (SotA, literature, etc.)
Proposal text & annexes
17. What I can offer
A track-record in project management
Over 20 years of RTD expertise
A network of over 140 industrial
partners, 70 universities/research
centres and 20 cultural institutions
Consolidated experience as Project
Expert Evaluator/Reviewer in over 12
Research Programmes
(EU, EUREKA!, EIT, TSB, etc.)