EUknow.it offers clear content needed for those taking their first steps in European planning. Let’s find out how, with Basilio Scaffidi
Our fellow travelers: the experience of Basilio Scaffidi, a young social designer
European design is an exciting but often lonely journey, amid deadlines, forms to fill out, and partners to coordinate. We want to tell you how the new Guide can accompany you on your European design journey, and to do so we have chosen exceptional traveling companions from the world of European design, academia, local government and civil society, along with our partners.
In this fifth stage Basilio Scaffidi, a young social planner at the beginning of his professional journey, tells us how the Guide helped him gain clarity on his path to European design.
Basilio Scaffidi is a young professional active in the field of social design. He holds degrees in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Bologna and in Social Design for Innovation, Sustainability and Gender Inclusion from La Sapienza University. He recently started his professional activity working as a designer at Il Cenacolo, a Roman non-profit organization that deals with educational interventions and social inclusion initiatives. In parallel, he is active in the field of gastronomy, where he works as a cook at Villa Medici – French Academy in Rome. He also attends a professional cooking academy, through which he cultivates his passion for haute cuisine and ambition to combine it with social agriculture, integrating social interventions, rural practices and gastronomic innovation. In her spare time, she devotes herself to volunteer activities, holding Italian language classes for foreigners.
The Guide: resources to turn European projects into a challenge within one’s reach
EUknow.co.uk is a compass to help and guide those starting out in European design. If you reflect yourself in this profile, let’s try to go deeper: here are some reasons why the Guide is the tool for you.
- EUknow.it turns the complexity of European funds into a clear and accessible path. In a single platform, the Guide helps to navigate European funds with selected content explained in a simple and straightforward manner. The videopills provide an initial overview of the essentials of European projects, while the Handbook and Programs section help focus on the essentials of European funds, programs, and calls for proposals, defining what a European project is, how the European budget is structured, and how fund programming works.
- To answer common doubts about European design, EUknow.co.uk has developed a Question and Answer section, which includes sections on how to best use the Guide, understand European policies and institutions, work on projects, and better understand what it means to work as a European designer. The answers link to articles in the Guide to explore each topic in more depth.
- The Guide offers useful tools for overcoming obstacles in approaching European calls for proposals. The Handbook provides reading methods for identifying and analyzing call texts starting with the basic elements. The Glossary accompanies you with definitions of key terms, while the Guides and Tools section provides dedicated insights, such as on the language of European design.
- EUknow.it provides methodological support for writing and managing your first projects. The project working tools in the Handbook take you through the most difficult phase of the transition from project idea to call form, with design methodologies, such as the Logical Framework, and concrete examples. The Guides and Tools and Audio Video sections give access to an up-to-date selection of free design tools. Resources not only for writing, but also for project management, with articles on management and monitoring and reporting.
- And, to develop sustainable European projects with real social impact, EUknow.it offers insights dedicated to cross-cutting aspects in European projects, tools for developing and evaluating the social impact of projects, as well as concrete experiences of projects and organizations active in social innovation told in the Stories section.
These are just some of the resources you can find by browsing EUknow.co.uk. Subscribing to the Newsletter allows you to stay informed about new content being published. Keep following us in the next videopills to discover the sections and contents of the Guide, along with new fellow travelers.
