European Union and International Project Management
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Course code
RIJ7027.YK
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Course title in Estonian
Euroopa Liit ja rahvusvaheline projektijuhtimine
Course title in English
European Union and International Project Management
ECTS credits
6.0
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lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
The course is aimed at students acquiring knowledge about the EU funding system and grants and developing skills to create EU and other international projects, write funding applications, evaluate projects and organize reporting.
Brief description of the course
During the course students acquire knowledge about the European Union regional policy and funding principles, types of EU and international grant programmes, rules and traditions. Students learn acquire information about projects’ structures, possibilities of finding project partners, concluding partnership agreements, budgeting, eligibility of costs, evaluation procedures, reporting and project monitoring.
Students will get an overview of typical mistakes of project applications and practical guidelines.
Rules and norms of EU’s international funded programmes. 2007-2013 EU funding period: finances, programmes, funding mechanisms. The 7th Frame Programme. Structural funds and solidarity: functioning mechanisms and ways of applying. Decentralised implementing system: strategic source documents and implementing documents, implementing agencies and units and their responsibilities. Project evaluation procedure: technical evaluation, content and funding evaluation; evaluation experts. Entering into a financing agreement. Structure of project application. Project partners. Detailed and aggregate budget. Typical mistakes of project applications. Report to the funder.
Independent work: to draw up an application for financing an international project from structural funds.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- knows EU regional policy;
- knows EU and other international cooperation programmes;
- is able to find suitable funding sources and project partners for own projects;
- is able to prepare, write applications, implement, evaluate and organize reporting of international and EU funded projects.

Teacher
Katri-Liis Reimann, PhD
Prerequisite course 1
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