Giving Directors and key professionals in your Organisations the opportunity to learn about european programmes and prepare their applications
In a time where funding is a common challenge for most Jewish Organisations, it is essential for leaders to learn both the programmes their organisations are eligible to apply for and the right way to do so. In this spirit, we are happy to announce registration is open to the Training Seminar with professionals and consultants whose expertise will surely prove beneficial to all the participants. During the Seminar, participants will receive mentoring of the highest quality and have assistance in putting together grants for the different EU funds.
The residential seminar will be the right space to enable participants to network and share their needs in order to create the required partnerships to present their grants to the EU.
Participants will be counting with mentoring on the different programmes and also help preparing an accurate budget with all the respective elements required by the EU.
They will also count with help in writing their proposal with support of native English speakers available throughout the seminar, which will help improving the accuracy and description of each one of the projects presented to the different funds (Europe Creative, Erasmus +, Structural Funds, etc)
In a time where funding is a common challenge for most Jewish Organisations, it is essential for leaders to learn both the programmes their organisations are eligible to apply for and the right way to do so. In this spirit, the European Council of Jewish Communities, the European Association of Jewish Community Centers in partnership with Moishe House, the Jewish Community of Stockholm, Bejt, Paideia and the support of the European Jewish Fund are happy to announce they are organising a Training Seminar with professionals and consultants whose expertise will surely prove beneficial to all the participants. During the Seminar, participants will receive mentoring of the highest quality and have assistance in putting together grants for the different EU funds.
The residential seminar will be the right space to enable participants to network and share their needs in order to create the required partnerships to present their grants to the EU.
Participants will be counting with mentoring on the different programmes and also help preparing an accurate budget with all the respective elements required by the EU.
They will also count with help in writing their proposal with support of native English speakers available throughout the seminar, which will help improving the accuracy and description of each one of the projects presented to the different funds (Europe Creative, Erasmus +, Structural Funds, etc)
Geoffrey Brown is Director of Euclid, which he founded in 1993. Euclid provides a range of European and international services and activities, focusing on connections, knowledge and funding.
Geoffrey has unrivalled knowledge of EU funding for the arts and culture sector– Geoffrey was co-ordinator of the UK Cultural Contact Point (promoting the EU’s Culture programme) from
1999-2009, and was subsequently advisor to Visiting Arts, who took over as UK Cultural Contact Point from 2010. Euclid is well known by the arts & culture sector for its seminars and conferences in the UK and in Europe, and in particular on EU funding opportunities, and Geoffrey has been the lead presenter for its CulturEuro seminars since 2005, which are the UK’s leading seminars providing information on EU funding opportunities for the arts and cultural sector.
Geoffrey has direct practical experience of EU-funded projects – Euclid was a partner in a project funded by the Kaleidoscope programme, the fore-runner to the Culture programme, and more recently was a partner in a Grundtvig funded project (a Lifelong Learning programme). Geoffrey was also lead consultant for Euclid on a number of evaluation contracts for the European Commission, including for the Raphael and Ariane programmes, also predecessors to the Culture programme.
In addition to leading the UK CCP for 11 years, Geoffrey also led on EUCLID’s contracts as the UK National Co-ordinating Body for the European Year for Intercultural Dialogue 2008 and the UK Contact Point for the EU- Europe for Citizens funding programme.
Other EU related projects include consultancy services to Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008, and for the establishment of the Euro-Bulgarian Cultural Centre in Sofia. Geoffrey’s most recent publication is the overview for “Culture & Development: 20 years after the fall of Communism in Europe”, a conference co-sponsored by the Council of Europe.
Geoffrey continues to work on a range of European & international information, research & consultancy services. Work in this area includes an international audit for Creative Scotland (2010-11) as well as work for European networks, the British Council and UK arts funding bodies and local authorities. From 2007-10, Geoffrey led on EUCLID’s contract with Arts Council England to provide international information services to the arts sector in England.
For EUCLID, Geoffrey has also undertaken consultancy and advisory work in the creative and cultural industries, including research and training on behalf of the Council of Europe in several regions of Russia, in Ukraine and Bulgaria, as well as projects in the UK.
Geoffrey has developed and now oversees the Culture. Info and Connexus services which provide arts, cultural and creative industries information from Europe and across the world – news, events calendars, mobility information, funding database, and updates on research and publications.
Prior to founding Euclid, Geoffrey was Senior Partner in the Positive Solutions consultancy (now based in Australia), Deputy Director of Merseyside Arts Council, Assistant Director at Darlington Arts Centre, and Executive Director of the Australian Youth Performing Arts Association. He has also served on a number of boards of arts and cultural organizations including the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT) and the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts.
Ian is a consultant, facilitator and trainer working with the public, NGO and private sectors, specialising in policy relating to local government, health, social care and community leadership. Working for a diverse range of clients in the UK; Ian has been teaching and training for the last 13 years, winning a National Training Award in 2010 for his Community Leadership Course.
A core part of Ian’s work with NGOs is strategic and financial planning; income generation models, fundraising and sustainability in complex operating environments. He also works for
a range of foundations and trusts that support NGOs, building the capacity of their beneficiaries to reduce grant reliance and dependency.
Ian also lectures at Kingston University on the postgraduate programmes and in other establishments in London. Ian had 5 years of experience as CEO of a NGO Development Agency, 5 years of experience as Deputy CEO
of a NGO in the UK with European projects
in Italy, Spain and Ireland.
Keith Hackett has been a consultant who has worked as a sole trader since 1986. He specialises in employment-related research, strategic planning and project financing with cultural organisations and enterprises, higher education institutions, community organisations, governmental bodies and industry consortia, across Europe. His previous clients have included the European Commission, the Council of Europe, various UK Government departments, IBM, the accountants Pannell Kerr Forster, various UK local authorities and regional arts boards, the Moving Image Development Agency, the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, and Arts Council England.
He is known best for his detailed knowledge of utilising public and private finances in Europe to grow jobs and generate employment in the less traditional industrial sectors, and he authors and speaks regularly on these topics. In this role his responsibilities have required him to work directly to clients – usually through a senior staff member or CEO. His role has often combined a mix of strategic advice, policy development, finance and fundraising and change management – carried out in a manner where he both leads and enables the participants through the process. In the main he has worked by invitation, with smaller, community-based projects or in the development of specific policy initiatives.
He is also director of a number of commercial companies undertaking various innovative property developments in inner city Liverpool (and elsewhere) associated with creative industry cluster developments. These developments have been specifically structured and located in a manner that improves social cohesion, and develops sustainable employment growth in the creative industries. They have deliberately tested new models of enterprise and financing, and provided new models for adoption and adaptation elsewhere. As a result he has become a specialist in workspace development – particularly associated with new employment sectors and marginal locations. He works in these projects long-term, with a core of collaborators and co-investors. He is also a specialist on project financing – and he led the influential Banking On Culture project.
He is committed to making his civic contribution, and has undertaken considerable voluntary and political activity over the past 40 years. This has included being variously, elected representatives in his trades union (now UNITE), as a City Councillor in Liverpool between 1987 and 1995, and on various Boards and organisations. He is currently Vice-chair of the British Horse Society’s Merseyside Committee, and is leading an initiative to set up a “starter riding school” in central Liverpool.
Giles Agis is Director of Brouhaha International, an arts and cultural development agency that encompasses promotion, production and participation, and provides a range of services, including an international street festival, outreach and education programmes, information services, events packages and the production of new performance work. Giles is involved in:
- Planning and programming: he brings a fusion of global styles and artsforms from across Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East to the streets of Liverpool
- Fundraising: The majority of his time is spent trying to find creative ways of funding local and international arts and cultural projects from a cocktail of sources
- International Development: He develops international performance projects; collaborations and training opportunities between young artists and performers from across the world
- Arts in Regeneration: At a community level he is involved in developing the skills, knowledge and experience of local people, through Brouhaha’s educational and outreach programmes which produce large-scale community celebrations like Liverpool’s Carnival parade
Prior to Brouhaha, Giles worked for Hope Street Ltd (Liverpool) as Workshop Leaders Programme Co-ordinator: working with young artists in order that they reinvest newly acquired skills into their communities and develop themselves as arts practitioners. He has also worked with Oval House Theatre (London) with youth and community groups making theatre, music and dance projects; and has been a freelance youth arts worker, community arts worker, theatre director, and trainer.
- by Geoffrey Brown
An overview of the work of the EU and its current priorities, the way it works, and an overview of funding programmes relevant to the arts, culture and heritage. The session will include an explanation of the ESIF (European Structural & Investment Funds) and the Interreg programme.
The residential seminar will be the right space to enable participants to network and share their needs in order to create the required partnerships to present their grants to the EU.
Participants will be counting with mentoring on the different programmes and also help preparing an accurate budget with all the respective elements required by the EU.
They will also count with help in writing their proposal with support of native English speakers available throughout the seminar, which will help improving the accuracy and description of each one of the projects presented to the different funds (Europe Creative, Erasmus +, Structural Funds, etc)
