Report on on-site Training courses

2 on-site training courses will be organized per year. The subjects of these trainings will be dedicated to both newcomers and more experienced NCPs ensuring that both have a role in the knowledge circulation. In the previous project, it proved to be enriching both for newcomers and more experienced NCPs to be attending the same courses as there is a reciprocal exchange, so there will not be a distinction in the participants that can attend a training course. Trainings are foreseen to last one day/one and a half days, and we foresee around 30 participants on average in each of them. According to our experience in the previous HNN project, we estimate that, in terms of sponsorship, about 25 will be needed, as funding for the remaining 5 seats may come from national funding, other projects, and synergies with another project activity, etc. The pool of trainers will be nurtured from the own SC1 NCP Network; external experts and NCPs from other networks (i.e. SME, SC2, ICT, National Coordinators, Legal and Financial) will also be invited as speakers when the subject treated is not an inherent/natural competence of the SC1 NCP community. Some of the training content will be on “soft skills”, e.g. Train the Trainer, how to moderate workshops, presentation skills, for which external trainers will be involved, as this type of training was already offered in the previous project and it was very well valued by the NCPs. On-site trainings may be connected to other project activities so as to reduce travelling and minimizing costs, e.g. consortium meetings or SC1 NCP Meetings organized by the EC. It is foreseen that 3 training courses take place at host organizations of NCPs who are not partners of the consortium, e.g. in some EU-13 countries One of the 8 courses will be organized by the horizontal “NCP Academy” project and will be dedicated to cross-cutting issues such as legal and financial aspects, IPR, innovation, international cooperation, social sciences and humanities, ethics or gender. The Yellowindow Gender Toolkit project will also provide specialized trainings on gender in H2020 and a training course on that subject may also be instructed by them.