Presentations: DEAR Inception Seminar 2018

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At the DEAR Inception Seminar we shared tips, experience and guidance on setting up and managing your DEAR project. All the presentations from that Seminar, which took place in March 2018 in Brussels with the CfP2016 new DEAR projects, are available for download from this page.

You can access the final report from the Inception Seminar, here or through the attachment below. The full list of participants can be downloaded here or from the list below.

 


Group shots, DEAR Projects

You can also access photographs from the event and all group photographs of the Task Managers with their respective project representatives by following this link.

 

 

 

 

Day 1:     10.00 to 19.30 hrs, 13 March

9.00 onwards

Registration

Coffee, tea and other refreshments available

10.00

Welcome and opening by Ms Fabienne Van den Eede, Acting Head of Unit, DEVCO.B.1 - Gender Equality, Human Rights and Democratic Governance

 

Who is who and the Programme of the Inception Seminar

 

Project implementation and reporting: challenges and opportunities

 

Projects and their Task Managers: Introductions

11.30

Break

12.00

Learning from past DEAR projects: the importance of Monitoring and Evaluation, experience from Tereza Cajkova 'Eat Responsbily' and Mirjam Hagele 'Make Fruit Fair'

12.45

Lunch

Informal networking

14.15

Communication: capacity4dev.eu/dear, visibility guidelines and the EC perspective on communications from Richard Hands, communications planning - perspective from Challenging the Crisis and Make Fruit Fair

 

Break

15.30
  1. Parallel Group Work sessions:
    1. Setting up and using internal information systems (break out room A)
    2. Managing sub-granting, now known as "FINANCIAL SUPPORT" (break out room B) with Sofia Caiolo from LADDER
    3. Developing and working with change agents/multipliers (plenary room)

16.45

Plenary report back from the Parallel Group Work sessions (above), summarising issues covered on day 1 and the programme for day 2

17.30 to 19.00

Informal networking and exchanges with refreshments provided

Day 2:     9.30 to 16.00 hrs, 14 March

9.00 onwards

Registration

Coffee, tea and other refreshments available

9.30

Welcome to day 2 and programme reminder

9.40

Implementing your DEAR project: procedures, eligibility, changing activities, budgets, results or amending contracts, addressing such questions as:

1. Looking up information in contractual documents, presentation by Markus Pirchner

2. When is a budget or contract amendment required?..And when not?

3. What is covered by "25% budget change"?

4. How unforeseen activities and related costs can be dealt with.

Plenary introductions by DEVCO Unit B6 staff and former Project Coordinators, followed by group work with projects’ Task Managers addressing particular issues.

You can download the FAQ based on this session here

11.00

Break

11.30

Plenary report back and discussion on issues addressed in the group work

12.00

Lunch

13.15

Parallel group work sessions:

1.Working in large partnerships (break out room A): Mirjam Hagele 'Make Fruit Fair', Tereza Cajkova 'Eat Responsbily'

2.Making the project finances work (break out room B): Sofia Caiolo, 'LADDER', Elaine Mahon, 'Challenging the Crisis'

14.20

Plenary report back from the parallel group work sessions

 

14. Projects and their Task Managers 2: further opportunity to exchange and discuss information and issues

 

15. Summarising the issues discussed during the two days and identifying remaining key questions

 

16. Conclusions and next steps

16.00

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