Project and Grant Activities

Course: Sociаl Technologies

Structural unit: Faculty of Sociology

Title
Project and Grant Activities
Code
ОК14
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
2 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
1.1. Knowledge about both the basics of project and grant organization of contemporary research, and technologies of project development and management, fundraising. 2.1. Skills of development and evaluation of project proposals 2.2. Skills of working with informational sources for project development and fundraising. 3.1. Communication skills for research team work, business with granters and stackholders. 4.1. Skills of keeping the professional ethic and social responsibility in professional area.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1) To know the basic of scientific methodology and organization of social research; 2) Skills of working with information and searching systems and data bases; 3) Skills of team work and presentation of research outcomes; 4) skills of working with academic texts and other sources in English.
Course content
Project and grant organization of scientific research activities. International and national donors, grant programs. Fundraising resources and principles. Grant programs of the European research Counsel and the Agency for European Innovation. Grant programs of the Ukraine National Foundation for Research and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Grant programs under the international collaboration and civil society. Preparation of a project proposal; ethics, evaluation criteria and fundraising. Project grant management; quality and risk management.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
AtKisson M. S. Handbook for Planning and Writing Successful Grant Proposals \ AtKisson Training Group, 2018. – 150 p. NERC Research Grants And Fellowships Handbook Grants Awarded On Full Economic Cost Basis. Edition 2021-1.0 February 2021: for research grant and fellowship proposals from 1 September 2005 \ Natural Environment Research Council, 2021. - https://www.ukri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/NERC-20072021-GrantsFellowshipsHandbook2021.pdf 2018 R&D Trends Forecast Results from the Innovation Research Interchange’s Annual Survey // Research-Technology Management. - January - February 2018. – Pp. 23-34. - Making project management indispensable for business results (2016). - Project Management Institute \ Global Operations Center. - https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/learning/ugcr-vol-one-and-vol-two.pdf?v=4f7f7946-5ce6-42ed-9277-3b8bb2bd3885
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, practice session, individual work, command mini-research, project review and evaluation.
Assessment methods and criteria
1.Express-survey–LO1.1, 2.1,2.2 2. Matrix of donor’s programs and organiztions - LO 2.2 3. Development of a project proposal (in a team) - LO 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1 4. Role game on organization of a project team work – LO 3.1, 4.1 5. Presentation and defense of project proposal before the stakeholders - LO 1.1, 3.1, 4.1 6. Project review and valuation – LO 2.1 final assessment - credit
Language of instruction
ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Olga Dmytrivna Kutsenko
Department Social Structures and Social Relations
Faculty of Sociology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department Social Structures and Social Relations
Faculty of Sociology