«The secret of success in preparing grant applications» webinar with the participation of the NCP of the EU and Ukraine took place at NULES of Ukraine

In order to successfully prepare competitive grant applications in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe and other international and Ukrainian calls, the National Contact Point of the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation "Horizon 2020": Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy at the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (https://nubip.edu.ua/horizon2020) organized "The secret of success in preparing grant applications" webinar with the participation of European and Ukrainian NCP on October 16, 2020.

Oleksandr Labenko, Director of the Center for International Activities of NULES of Ukraine, addressed Wellcome and concluding remarks to the participants of the webinar on behalf of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine. The webinar was moderated by Lilia Kalachnyuk, Head of NCP Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy on the basis of NULES of Ukraine.

The first speaker of the webinar – Bożena Podlaska, head of NCP Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy, Republic of Poland (http://www.kpk.gov.pl/ http: //en. kpk.gov.pl/), made a report on "The calls and tips on how to prepare a good proposal", in which she focused on the general review of Horizon 2020 calls, especially "The European Green DEAL" and the most important elements of preparing a successful project application.
Tetiana Kotenko – Head of NCP Innovation in SMEs on the basis of the Central Ukrainian National Technical University (Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), pointed the actual calls of the below programs in her report on the topic: "Opportunities for participation and attraction of financing by small and medium enterprises (Horizon 2020, USAID, EURECA, Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, Erasmus for young entrepreneurs and others".

Lilia Kalachnyuk – Head of NCP Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy on the basis of NULES of Ukraine, presented the last report of the webinar on the topic: "Progress and prospects". The speaker demonstrated the progress, expansion of interests, and activity of Ukrainian institutions in the participation of international calls and projects over the past two years on the example of the participation of NULES of Ukraine and guests of the NCP Info Events. Emphasis was once again placed on improving the representation of information on international calls for proposals, both in the national and European web net.

In addition, important information was provided on the possibility of joining as partners in consortia (submitting competitive project applications) on the example of participation in brokerage activities, in particular the Brokerage Event on October 14-15, 2020 "Horizon 2020 Green Deal".
Webinar participants actively used the "chat" to clarify the relevant information.
We thank the leadership of NULES of Ukraine for providing the opportunity to hold a webinar on the WEBEX platform.

Lilia Kalachniuk,
Head of NCP "Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry,
marine and maritime and inland water research
and the bioeconomy" on the basis of NULES of Ukraine