Basic requirements to access the lessons are:
- B2 level in English (comprehension, spoken language, written language);
- Knowledge of the European institutional, social and economic context;
- Knowledge of the role of the development policies at European level;
- Knowledge of the role of EU cooperation policies;
- Competencies in team working and public speaking.
The participation will be easier for the students having experienced multilingual and
multicultural contexts thanks to university exchange programmes or other personal
opportunities. The exercises will demonstrate the necessity to cooperate, in order to
achieve a common result, with people who are different in terms of language and
culture.

The objective of the course is to provide the students with a general vision of the
Project Cycle Management, with particular regard to the ‘Identification’,
‘Programming’, and ‘Monitoring and Evaluation” phases.

The course highlights the relationships between public policies, programmes for
international development cooperation, co-funded projects. From a general point of
view, all international donors are concerned. More specifically, examples on the
European commission territorial policies and programmes are given (IPA, Alpine
Space, Central Europe, Alcotra).
Evaluation is considered as a key to interpret the whole Project Cycle Management.
The concepts of ex-ante, in itinere and ex-post evaluation are introduced and
deepened with reference to the evaluation of several cooperation programmes.
The programme of the lessons follows:
- Presentation of the course: summary of the issues, bibliography
- Link between policies and programmes: Programming phase
- Link between programmes and projects: Identification phase
- The logical framework approach: stakeholder analysis and problem analysis
- Evaluation of the project and programme (qualitative and quantitative approach)
- Monitoring and indicators

• 1.  (A) European Commission Project Cycle Management Guidelines European Commission, Bruxelles, 2004
• 2.  (A) European Commission Monitoring and Evaluation of European Cohesion Policy - European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund – concepts and recommendations European Commission, Bruxelles, 2011

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