DU – Engineering of European projects in overseas territories

  • area: Cultures, territories and plural societies in the Indian Ocean
  • course: Not applicable
  • ECTS credits
    Not concerned
  • level of studies
    at the end of training

    Not concerned
  • Teaching locations
    Saint-Denis - University Technology Park Site
  • Type of training : University degree (DU)
  • Training regime: Continuing Education

Training summary

This training aims to train professionals and students (medical interns, Master 2 and doctoral students) from the medical-psychological, social, educational or legal fields in the modalities of the transcultural approach. The training integrates both theoretical teachings and practical perspectives. The foundations and theoretical models of transcultural clinical psychology are presented with a particular anchoring in the societies of the Indian Ocean.

Training objectives

Training in setting up European projects by mastering the rules for applying for funds

Training in the technical and financial management of European funds and projects

Professionalize socio-economic actors wishing to work within services responsible for the management of European funds

Providing regulatory and methodological knowledge to stakeholders involved in projects mobilizing European funds

Training in mastering the fundamental frameworks of European Union and Overseas law

Advantages of the training

This is a professional training course alternating academic teaching and professional teaching, focused on practice.

It brings together in partnership with the University of La Réunion the main players in the management of European funds and programs in La Réunion, in alphabetical order:

the Agency for the Management of Local Initiatives in European Matters (AGILE);

the Departmental Council of Reunion;

the Regional Council of Reunion;

the Department of Economy, Employment, Work and Solidarity (DEETS);

the General Secretariat for Regional Affairs (SGAR) of the Prefecture…

The teaching team is mixed. It includes not only academics (lecturer-researchers from the University specializing in European Union and Overseas law) but also practitioners (professionals specialized in the management of European funds and programs: AGILE, DEETS, Department, Region, etc.).

Professionalization is reinforced in particular with the help of Euroconferences on professions and testimonials, given by professionals and project leaders who benefit from European funds, as well as by personalized tutoring, consisting of an immersive internship within a European fund management authority or structure or a tutored project focusing on the assembly in a small group of a European project file or the writing of a thematic file.

The training is supported by the Ministry of the Interior and Overseas Territories as part of an agreement between the General Directorate of Overseas Territories (DGOM) and the University of La Réunion.

Training accessible to people with disabilities.

Targeted skills

This training provides both regulatory and practical knowledge as well as professionalizing tools:

  • Fundamental frameworks of European Union and Overseas law;
  • European Union policies and financing;
  • Project assembly and management;
  • Public procurement techniques;
  • Euroconferences on trades and networking.

At the end of the training, graduates will be able to:

  •  to identify relevant local, national and European actors;
  • to understand the logic of operation and allocation of European funding;
  • to respond to calls for projects mobilizing European funds;
  • to master the rules and tools for administrative, technical and financial management of European funds;
  • to be up to date with European requirements and regulations: legal framework for programs, communication tools, fund management techniques, controls, etc.

Summary of lessons by course

• EU 1 – Fundamental frameworks of the European Union and overseas territories (28 hours)
)How the European Union works:
Key institutions, Decision-making process, Acts, Effects of EU law
Legal status of overseas territories:
European and national law statuses: OR, PTOM, DROM, COM…

• EU 2 – Policies and financing of the European Union (23 H)
European funding for overseas projects:
Regional and cohesion policy, Overview of European funds and programmes
Sectoral policies:
Agriculture/rural development, Fisheries/maritime affairs, Environment/climate…

• EU 3 – Setting up and managing projects co-financed by European funds (34 hours)
European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF):
Principles of operation and implementation, actors…
Project assembly process and specificities of FESI:
FEDER, FSE+, FEADER…

• UE 4 – Setting up and managing sectoral programs (17 hours)
Presentation and operation of the main programs: Horizon Europe, LIFE, Erasmus+, Single Market, etc.
Project assembly process: Horizon Europe, Erasmus+…

• UE 5 – Accounting and financial management (21 hours)
Accounting rules and procedures, Financing plans
Control, Monitoring and Evaluation

• EU 6 – Public purchasing techniques (21 hours)
Preparation and award of public contracts
Execution of public contracts

• UE 7 – Professional tools (14 hours)
Euroconferences: professional/multilateral conferences, testimonials from project leaders, etc.
Communication: communication and network animation tools…
Internship (within the services of a Management Authority, etc.) or supervised project (thematic file or preparation of a European project file)

 

Expected opening of training: September

Provisional training schedule:

Duration of training: 158 hours from September to June N+1 (face-to-face teaching or e-learning)

Estimated hours: 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. / 13:00 p.m.–16:30 p.m. (7 hours per day max. – 35 hours of professional training)
23 days (or 46 half-days) of face-to-face training on the University Technology Park site or remotely

Assessment methods:
UE 1 to UE 6 are subject to continuous assessment (session 1) according to specific procedures which will be communicated by the teaching team at the start of the training: each continuous assessment will be designed under the responsibility of the speaker in charge of the teaching concerned and the educational manager of the training.
EU 7: writing an internship report or a thematic file or a European project file with oral defense.

Stage

One or two-month internship within an authority or management structure or supervised thematic file or European project file to be submitted as a group.

Specific devices

Not concerned

Conditions of access to training

Baccalaureate + 3 or equivalent

This training is aimed at holders of a national diploma or a qualification equivalent to bac+3 with the following profile:

• people interested in European project engineering (elected officials, civil servants, employees, association managers, etc.);
• people undergoing professional retraining in connection with European project engineering;
• professionals from the public and private sectors responsible for managing European projects;
• students wishing to complete their training with European project engineering;

 

Capacity: not concerned

 

Cost of training: 

  • Individual paying: €800
  • Employer agreement: €1800

Continuing Studies

Further studies possible in Master's degree (national diploma) according to the relevant conditions and access to civil service competitions.

 

Success rate : data not available

Career opportunities

European Project Officer
European Mission Officer
Research project manager
Project manager or project assistant
Independant consultant
Instructor
Responsible for European funds of a community, a decentralized service, a company, an association,

PONGERARD Helen

fc-diplomesuniversitaires@univ-reunion.fr
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