Eurotraining online course 2025

Eurotraining online Course 2025

Once again this year, the Eurotraining online course will be held and aims at providing training for businesses, local authorities and professionals operating in the Veneto region. The same partners are involved in this training opportunity: Unioncamere of the Veneto Region - Eurosportello, Europe Direct Venezia Veneto of the Municipality of Venice and the Veneto Region.

The course is structured over seven training days, which will take place this autumn from September to November online from 11:00 to 13:00. In addition to the classic introductory modules and key elements of design, this year's course will be enriched with a practical approach to the use of Artificial Intelligence and will feature two thematic focuses.

Modules of the online course: 

• Module 1 - Introduction to European funds and business support
• Module 2 -  European project design and a practical approach to the use of Artificial Intelligence
• Module 3 - Key elements of European project design: Planning, Management and Quality
• Module 4 -  Tools and opportunities for European project design: in-depth thematic analysis

Detailed online course programme: 

• Introductory remarks: Valentina Montesarchio - Secretary General of Unioncamere del Veneto and Francesca Vianello - Head of Europe Direct Venezia Veneto
• European funding: where it comes from and how it works - Alberto Valenzano - European Commission, Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
• Structure of European funds
• The Multiannual Framework Programme
• The Funds & Tender portal
• The Single Market
• The EEN network and the Friend Europe project - Eleonora Marton - Unioncamere del Veneto, Head of Institutions and Europe

• Fundamentals and evolution of European project design for businesses
• Introduction to the logic of European programmes, how a project is born, where to look for calls for proposals, how to structure a project idea and build an effective proposal.
• Focus on practical tools and information sources
• European Project Design 5.0

• Introduction to AI and applications in European project design
• Overview of the main Artificial Intelligence platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini, Notebook LM, Deepseek) and their use in searching for calls for proposals and generating project ideas.
• Guided approach to using AI to analyse calls, validate sources, and prepare useful content for SMEs in the pre-design phase.

• Writing European projects with the support of AI: methods and tools
• Practical techniques for using AI in drafting the main sections of a proposal: Excellence, Impact, Implementation
• Building customised prompts, defining partnerships, dissemination strategies and budget drafts. Step-by-step approach, with examples applicable to the main European programmes

• European programming and the role of the project manager: a framework for the proper technical and administrative management of projects.
• Practical examples and case studies in territorial cooperation (Interreg)

• From application to activity management: quality in projects with a focus on Erasmus+
• Selection criteria, consistency with the call for proposals and the project
• Monitoring and evaluation of processes and products

• The European Programme for the Environment and Climate Action (LIFE) - Federico Benvenuti - Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security - LIFE National Contact Point Team
• Opportunities for businesses through GLOBAL GATEWAY (focus on the Mattei Plan) - Marco Danieletto - National Expert on Secondment (Ministry of Defence) to the European Commission, Directorate-General for International Partnerships, and Alessandro Villa - European Commission Representative to the Mattei Plan Task Force at the Presidency of the Council

To supplement the topics related to Eurotraining and Europlanning, the publication ‘Guide to European Funding 2025’ is available online. You can also request a hard copy at the following link.

Go to the pages of previous editions where the slides and recordings of the meetings are still available:

• Eurotraining Course 2024
• Eurotraining Course 2023
• Eurotraining Course 2022
• Eurotraining Course 2021