Project Proposal Design

Organisations across Europe and the Global South are under increasing pressure to secure sustainable financing as national budgets tighten and donor priorities evolve. Access to international funding now requires more than technical proposal writing skills: it demands strategic insight into the global funding landscape, strong partnerships, and institutional readiness.

This Short Executive Programme equips professionals from the private sector, public institutions, semi-public bodies, and development organisations with consultancy-level skills and practical frameworks to identify funding opportunities, design competitive project proposals, and institutionalise long-term fundraising systems.

An important dimension of the participant organisations is their contribution to socio-economic development. In different sectors, from agriculture to health, they might play a leading role in skills development, entrepreneurship, policy advise, or innovation. All areas that are critical for inclusive economic growth at regional and national levels. By building project proposal writing skills, participants can access funding and directly contribute to facilitating this in their own relevant contexts.

Throughout the programme, a real-life proposal format is used as a practical case study.. This allows participants to work with authentic funding templates and assessment criteria, gaining insight into how major international funders structure, evaluate, and prioritise project proposals.

In addition, the programme explores how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can be effectively integrated into the proposal design process to enhance creativity, analytical depth, and overall proposal quality, while maintaining strategic coherence and donor alignment.