Business Trip to Trieste Focused on Horizon Europe Project Management and Knowledge Exchanges

Last week, our team participated in a productive and insightful business trip to Trieste as part of an ongoing Horizon Europe collaboration. The programme was designed to enhance professional capacity through a blend of job shadowing, expert seminars, and a cross-institutional roundtable discussion.

💼 Key Highlights:
🔹 Job Shadowing & Best Practice Exchange
We engaged closely with colleagues from the host institution, gaining first-hand insights into their project management systems, financial reporting tools, and internal workflows specific to Horizon Europe projects. The exchange of practices will directly support the efficiency and compliance of our own institutional processes.

🔹 Seminars on Implementation & Financial Strategy
The seminar series featured sessions on risk management in international consortia, large-scale research infrastructure governance, and science dissemination strategies. The combination of theory and actionable tools was especially beneficial for those managing complex, EU-funded research projects.

🔹 Roundtable: Challenges in Research Administration
The roundtable brought together project managers, finance officers, and research administrators to address key operational challenges in Horizon-funded initiatives. Topics such as staff cost calculation, eligibility of expenses, and audit preparedness sparked open, solution-oriented dialogue among peers.

🤝 Strategic Outcomes:
Strengthened international project management networks

Improved understanding of financial accountability in EU projects

Practical takeaways for streamlining internal processes

🔑 Keywords: Horizon Europe, EU project management, international collaboration, financial reporting, research infrastructure, audit readiness, science communication, best practices, research administration, capacity building.