10 July 2008 - From 18-20 June 2008 ECORYS organised another successful, fully booked INTERREG Project Development Training course. The training is part of the ECORYS Academy offer and focusses on all who want to write a successful project proposal for the European INTERREG¹ Funding programmes.

Participants were from regional and local organisations and NGO’s throughout Europe. During 2.5 days the participants were able to work and learn at the same time because they could implement the modules immediately into their own projectideas. During the practical training they received many tips and hints on writing clear objectives, activities, indicators, budget and what makes your project an INTERREG project.

The trainers were: Javier Fernandez from ECOTEC Madrid and Marie-José Zondag from ECORYS Netherlands (RSE).

The training course was rated very good. Some quotes:

• "Thank you for 3 very interesting and valuable days!"
• "Doing coached training gives a good opportunity to transfer your knowledge, please keep this in the training."
• "Will certainly be recommended!!"
• "Very good, relaxed style, approachable tutors"
• "Interesting to see how much can be done in little time if you have the right tools."
• "Very well informed trainers, very logical step by step programme, very useful models to use to plan projects"
• "Good variety of learning, working, role play, affable presenters, clear concise easy to understand."
• "Potentially tricky subject very well explained"
• "Very complete training course", "exhaustive and relevant information"
• "Marie-Jose & Javier are very fine and nice persons who's presentations are good to hear."
• "Enthousiastic and competent trainers", "Very fluent, clear and accurate trainers"

The INTERREG Project Development training course is an open training, part of the ECORYS Academy. The next INTERREG training course will be from 15-17 October 2008 in Brussels. Information and registration is possible through This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or +322 743 8949. It is also possible to organise this training locally for your own organisation.

For more information, please contact: 

Marie-José Zondag
Region, Strategy and Entrepreneurship
T +31 10 453 87 70
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^{1: INTERREG provides up to 85% EU funding to cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation between mostly public organisations in the fields of regional development, innovation, nature, environment, water, accessibility and sustainable communities. Type of activities vary from exchange of knowledge to developing joint approaches or products.}