Club Orizont is a service offered by CCG that aims at supporting partner universities who are keen to improve their success in accessing EU (and other) funded projects.

Assisted by EU funding experts in the grant writing field, the members of Club Orizont receive support in the process of identifying relevant opportunities, developing and submitting the applications in a more comprehensive, innovative, and effective way. The CCG experts that are assisting the club members are Roger Horam and Elena Bozdog. 

Membership

Any university and research institute that want to enhance the level of funds attracted can become a member of Club Orizont. The membership is based on an institutional level, but different members of the institution can participate to the Club Orizont activities. Based on the responsibilities held by the team members there will be several opportunities for them to enhance their level of expertise and to take part in the networking activities where all the members will be engaged.

Advantages

The advantages of being part of Club Orizont:

  • Weekly newsletter highlighting relevant calls and focusing on different EU and other funding options.

  • Access to an experienced team of experts who can support across the key areas of EU funding.

  • Access to high-quality, live, interactive training courses, aimed at different levels of experience.

  • Support the development of relevant skills of staff.

  • Creates a platform that allows universities and faculties to meet peers from other universities that are interested in submitting European funded projects.

  • Mechanism for Sharing of technical and laboratory resources.

Benefits

The benefits of being part of Club Orizont:

  • Grow research in terms of productivity, internationalisation, citation impact and ability to attract funding.

  • Grow the visibility of the instruction.

  • Increase income generation.

  • Support the development of relevant skills of staff.

  • Develop the portfolio and scale of international partnerships.

  • Improve the institutions capacity to attract new EU funding.

  • Attracting new researchers and students.

Beneficiaries

Beneficiaries of university membership include:

  1. International office staff and research support officers can take part in Club Orizont activities and training, enabling them to gain a greater understanding and more experience of EU funding and how it works.

  2. Researchers can learn how to develop more comprehensive, innovative sustainable and effective applications.

  3. Early career researchers can receive high quality initial and ongoing training on how to find partners and build project proposals and applications.  This will improve their ability to achieve funding for their projects and support their senior researcher colleagues.

  4. Faculty Heads, Deans and Rectors will benefit from the knowledge sharing, decision making and consortia building, as well as the increased funding attracted to the faculty or institution.

 For more information, please contact Elena Bozdog: elena@consultcormack.com