Western Balkans Alumni Association
(WBAA)
The Magic of Creating Successful Project Proposals
Renata Petrevska Nechkoska - happy & proud WBAA-nian
PhD in Business Economics (UGent BE) PhD in Management (UKLO MKD)
PostDoctoral researcher (UGent BE) Assistant Professor (Docent) (UKLO MKD)
European Commission Horizon 2020 Evaluation Expert Ghent University Western Balkans Alumni Ambassador Western Balkans Alumni Association Head of Research
Former banking manager (ProCredit Bank, ProCredit Holding AG, Frankfurt, Germany) Elsevier Netherlands Advisory Panel Member
Springer Nature Author - Monograph: Tactical Management in Complexity: Managerial and Informational Aspects - PhD dissertation as exceptional thesis ;)
About WBAA PM
Project 2019-B1-002
The Magic of Creating Successful Project Proposals
CORE CAPABILITY: Project proposal funding excellence in training > Aleksandar Bogojevski, MSc, Head of unit for higher education, National Agency of Republic of North Macedonia
DIFFERENTIAL COMPETENCES: Project experience, academic, governmental and non-governmental experience, project evaluation expertise, banking and business practitioners - Prof. dr. Mimoza Bogdanovska Jovanoska and myself
DIVERSE WBAA-nians backgrounds, languages, career stages, employers, ambitions, expectations, ideas, plans - UNIFIED through the precious REGIONAL component of WBAA.
MAIN IDEA: Generic components of diverse funding lines to be complemented with call-specific & context-specific elements, through the prism of STRATEGY, TACTICS & OPERATIONS, instructional gamification
THE MAGICAL INGREDIENTS: Purpose, outcomes, consortium/network, the true North-priorities, dynamic reconfiguration, honesty, integrity, novelty/innovation in context, …
The Concept
The Workshop & …
The Magic of Creating Successful Project Proposals
Project proposal excellenceProject experience
Academic Governmental
Non-governmental Evaluation expertise
Banking & Business practitioners
Diverse backgrounds Regional tendency
Unified goals
Generic components
Training Coaching
Call- Specific Context- Specific
Strategy Tactics
Operations
Gamification Novel Instruction
Magical elements
The training The networking
The coaching The scout game
The webinar The video tutorials
The scientific publication The promotional video
… REAL SUCCESSFUL PROJECT APPLICATIONS
THE INPUTSTHE MECHANISMS
THE EFFECTS
Deliverable 4 - scientific publication
Deliverable 5 - Video tutorials .
Video team made video footage of all event
Video tutorials - in progress …
Why bother? - WBAA does numerous diverse trainings, workshops, … - the virtual exchange has to be functional for multiple audience!
Deliverable 6 - Webinar
Impressions, feedback, evaluation, …
Deliverable 2 - Scouts game for project management
Video https://www.facebook.com/WesternBalkansAlumniAssociation/videos/pcb.2177902108982561/1100364453493607/?type=3&theater
WBAA
For years EC & WB intellectuals built WBAA to activate each other’s potentials and engagement following true compass.
Nowadays, network effects have emerged with increasing power.
We invest all our intellectual capabilities and use given free/granted resources - however, to sustain significant improvement, the mechanisms in place need many
more partners, collaborators and friends acting in the same direction.
Motivating, helping and inspiring each other!
Thank you!