EUknow.it is a tool that supports and accompanies those who teach and experience European planning, in universities and in every field. Let’s find out how, with Vanni Resta
Our fellow travelers: the experience of Vanni Resta, EU project designer and funding lecturer
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 first stage, Vanni Resta, a European planner and university lecturer with 30 years of experience, explains why he considers the Guide to be a useful, and essential, tool for any professional in the field.
Vanni Resta is an EU project designer and lecturer at the master’s degree program “Social Design for Sustainability, Innovation and Gender Inclusion” and at the master’s program in “EU projects and funding and European professions” at La Sapienza University of Rome. He also teaches at other universities, particularly in the master’s degree program “Business management and digital technologies – Green economy and sustainable management” at Uninettuno University. Since 2021 he has been an Ambassador for the European Climate Pact on behalf of the European Commission’s DG Climate. In 2008 he created the Manlio Resta Foundation, of which he is currently the President. He began his work as a planner in the early 1990s after graduating with honors in economics and business. He works in the field of directly managed programs of the European Union, collaborating with numerous national and international institutions. He is a project evaluator at the European Commission. He is the author of the handbook “Europrojecting with Horizon and EU Direct Funding” and other texts and publications on the subject. He is a member of the scientific committee of several entities. In 2024 he was elected as a municipal councilor for a civic list at the Municipality of Collevecchio (RI).
The Guide: handy resources for teaching European design
EUknow.it is a valuable tool for those who work with European planning by developing projects and through teaching. 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 helps you develop a clear and straightforward learning path for your learners. In the Handbook section, it provides content on European planning from the ground up, with content ranging from why European projects and funds exist to how they are defined and allocated.
- The Guide provides practical tools for teaching European project writing by moving from theory to practice. Content for orientation and tools for working on the project, from project preparation and development to partnership management to monitoring and reporting. The Guide’s Glossary brings together concise explanations of key European project terms.
- EUknow.co.uk also supports you with content so you can easily explain the European Programs, with an overview of the programs as a whole for a first overview and easy-to-follow fact sheets for each program with links to EU reference documents, such as programming documents, calls for proposals, results, official sites, news and more.
- A wide range of guides and tools gives access to multimedia materials that can be used in educational settings, with content developed by European institutions (and beyond) and podcasts to keep up-to-date: the catalog is constantly being expanded and updated, and ranges from European Commission webinars, to guides prepared by individual organizations, to our podcasts, video-pills, training moments and Infodays collected in an Audio and Video section.
- To accompany the teaching with concrete examples and case studies, the Insights section features articles on European project trends and issues, common mistakes in writing a European project, and examples of good practice from local organisations. In the Stories section of the Guide, experiences, successes and difficulties of working on European projects are recounted, with insights referring to a wide range of sectors.
- And, if you want to accompany your teaching with examples of concrete calls for proposals, open funding opportunities for European, national, regional, and territorial cooperation programs can be found in the Guide’s Calls Portal. The portal is updated monthly and accompanied by an ad hoc article in the news section summarizing the most salient news.
These are just some of the resources you can find on our new platform, EUknow.it. Keep following us in the upcoming videopills to discover the sections and contents of the Guide together with new fellow travelers.
