[EDUC] UPN Staff Days 2025 - European Projects

Join the UPN Staff Days – European Projects, 17–19 November 2025 at University Paris Nanterre!

 

From 17 to 19 November 2025, University Paris Nanterre (UPN) will host the UPN Staff Days – European Projects, a professional event dedicated to European project officers within the EDUC alliance.

Who can participate?

• Non-academic staff involved in European project management across all EDUC partner universities (regardless of the programme).

Event goals:

• Build a network of European project officers within EDUC.
• Strengthen mutual knowledge of partner institutions and contact points.
• Exchange best practices on key stages of project implementation: identifying funding opportunities, project design, coordination, and working with EU fund officers.
• Encourage joint responses to European calls for proposals.
• Lay the foundations for a permanent EDUC network of project officers.

Registration

• Maximum capacity: 15 participants
• Pre-registration open via the following online form until 31 July 2025
• No participation fee.

Preliminary programme*

Monday, 17 November (Afternoon):

• Welcome session.
• Getting to know each other: discovering the working environments of European project managers across EDUC universities.

Tuesday, 18 November (Morning):

• Exchange of practices (1/2): workshops by European programmes - Erasmus+, Horizon Europe, others.
• Exchange of practices (2/2): world café by project cycle phases – from idea to implementation, from monitoring to reporting.

Tuesday, 18 November (Afternoon):

• Imagining projects together: project fair.
• Working together (1/2): why create an EDUC network of European project managers?

Wednesday, 19 November (Morning):

• Working together (2/2): how to set up an EDUC network of European project managers?
• Closing session.

*Subject to change.
For inquiries, please send an email to: staff-mobility@drim.parisnanterre.fr