WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS
Helping your organisation build skills, readiness and impact in innovation and EU funding
Boost your organisation’s innovation performance with our expert-led workshops and trainings tailored to your goals and topics such as strategy, EU funding, funding proposal preparation and project implementation.
What this service includes
Spinverse workshops and trainings provide your team with practical knowledge, tools and confidence to successfully operate in competitive EU and national funding environments. Every training is tailored and delivered by senior specialists with hands-on experience from hundreds of proposals, projects and evaluations. Depending on your needs, the service can include:
Fundamentals on Horizon Europe or other EU funding calls: Structure, pillars, partnerships, TRLs, types of actions (RIA/IA/CSA), funding rules and success factors - based on your training needs.
Strategic call and consortium selection: How to analyse call texts, align with institutional strengths, assess roles (partner/task lead/WP lead) and choose the right opportunities and focus your efforts on them.
Proposal preparation training: Excellence–impact–implementation logic, budgeting, timelines, internal effort planning, coordination requirements, and evaluator expectations.
Hands-on proposal clinics: Facilitated sessions to refine concepts, check compliance against call texts, shape work packages, identify risks and improve coherence.
Training for a new coordinator: What does it mean and require coordinating a Horizon Europe, or other multi-party consortium EU funding proposal and project? Practical advice, tools and tips how to be a successful coordinator.
How to become a preferred partner? How to increase your profile and visibility in the Horizon Europe community and to get to the point where the best partner candidates want to partner with you.
EU project management training:
Best practices for GAP, kick-off preparation, internal communication, reporting, financial management and risk management best practices.
Responsible use of AI in proposal preparation: EC guidelines, low risk applications, risks to avoid and best practices for disclosure and integrity.
Tailored institutional training:
Sessions for universities, companies and ecosystems on strategic positioning, portfolio thinking and internal “go/no go” processes.
We can deliver our trainings as in person workshops, online sessions or multi module programmes.
What’s in it for you?
Clear capability uplift across your organisation: Build a shared understanding of EU funding logic, expectations and success criteria.
Better strategic decision-making: Give your team tools to identify and focus on the right opportunities and avoid misaligned or low probability calls.
Greater proposal quality and competitiveness: Improve clarity, structure, consistency and budgeting and ensure stronger evaluation outcomes.
Reduced internal effort and fewer bottlenecks: Understand realistic timelines, roles, workloads and coordination needs, avoiding last‑minute challenges.
Who this service is for
- Companies preparing their first or next EU or national funding proposals
- Growth companies and large enterprises building multi year R&D&I portfolios
- Research organisations and universities seeking improved Horizon Europe performance
- Ecosystems and clusters coordinating complex funding pipelines
- Innovation leaders and project managers responsible for planning, proposals or project delivery
Get started
Whether your organisation wants to strengthen EU funding readiness, develop internal expertise, improve the quality of the funding proposal or project execution, our experts deliver tailored workshops and trainings that help your team succeed with confidence.
Contact us to book a free discussion and design a training programme that fits your needs.
Janne Kaukojärvi
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FAQs
We offer tailored programmes covering Horizon Europe fundamentals, strategic call selection, consortium building, proposal preparation, budgeting, evaluator expectations, responsible AI use, and EU project execution (GAP, kick-off, reporting and financial management). These can be delivered as standalone sessions or multimodule training paths.
Our trainings support companies, growth businesses, universities, universities of applied sciences, research organisations, ecosystems and innovation leaders who want to build internal skills in funding, funding proposal writing, strategic positioning or project management.
Yes. Each training is tailored to your thematic focus, project pipeline, maturity level and internal capability needs. We can adapt duration, depth, exercises and case examples to match your strategic goals.
Yes. Each training is tailored to your thematic focus, project pipeline, maturity level and internal capability needs. We can adapt duration, depth, exercises and case examples to match your strategic goals.
Yes. Based on European Commission guidance, we train your team to use AI responsibly: improving clarity, structure and efficiency while maintaining originality, accuracy and compliance with research integrity principles.
Formats range from 1–2-hour sessions to half day, full day or multiweek programmes. We run interactive workshops, hands-on clinics, executive briefings and deep-dive modules. We do onsite or online depending on your location.
Yes. Participants receive practical templates, checklists, guidance documents and summaries that can be reused internally for future proposals and project activities.
Contact us for a free discussion. We will recommend the right training setup based on your objectives, timelines and team needs.