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!