WS4: Elevating your Facilitation Skills: a 3-hour crash course

Trainers: Melanie Büscher and Lisbeth Breinholt

Date: Tuesday 23^rd April 2023 (09:00-12:00)

Location: University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

Target audience: This session is for all RMAs who would like to support focused consortium meetings that lead to coherent proposals and consortium plans without having any formal facilitation skills. No previous knowledge is needed.

Learning outcomes: After this session, you will have ten proven hacks to facilitate meetings that reach their goals and create specific outcomes, as well as a template showing the coherence of a Horizon Europe Proposal that can be used for any of your proposal writing support services • Maximum number of attendees possible (minimum of 20 attendees): Minimum 12-15. Max 40 attendees. Please let me know if there are more – I might be able to adjust.

Profile of the Trainers
The trainers are Melanie Büscher and Lisbeth Breinholt from the IT-University of Copenhagen. As certified facilitator and trainer, and team leader for the Research Support team at ITU, Melanie has extensive experience and expertise in workshop facilitation and a relevant background as RMA. Melanie has organized proposal writing trainings since 2007, as well as train-the-trainer seminars for National Contact Points and RMAs since 2017.

Lisbeth has recently started using graphic facilitation during kick-off meetings and consortium meetings. She is a very experienced pre-awarder, but new to facilitating interactive workshops. She will share the shortcuts and supporting tools that she uses to create overviews and show interdependencies, thus providing RMAs without facilitation training with very concrete inspiration