Eu centers proposal submission guidelines

EU CENTERS 2011-14

Proposal Narrative Form

4.A.4. Activities: Working Papers, Newsletters, and Other Publications. Indicate all working papers, newsletters and any other publications not described under ‘Conferences and Workshops’ to be implemented during each academic year of the 2011-14 grant period. Be sure to include targeted audience(s), likely number of recipients, and planned means of dissemination. Please also specify how these activities will further the program policy objectives and produce the related outcomes set out in section II of the Call for Proposals, and provide measurable criteria for evaluating their implementation. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.
Newsletter
The Center’s monthly newsletter, which will be run and developed by our Communications Specialist, will do the following to disseminate information:

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  List the upcoming EU Center events, as well as European related events put on by other schools and departments both at UT and our partner educational institutions in the region,
  
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  Provide the upcoming deadlines for funding and grants from the EU Center, as well as funding opportunities from other schools and departments within UT,
  
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  List the upcoming deadlines for funding and grants from non-University of Texas entities (EU, US State Department, Council for European Studies, etc.), and
  
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  Provide links to the news sources about issues in the EU (such as the EU’s Press Room: http://europa.eu/press_room/index_en.htm).
  

To disseminate our newsletter, the Center will create an extensive email list compiled from participants to our events, interested students, and partners in professional schools and academic departments. We will also work closely with our partners in the Texas State government and local businesses to increase our email list and thus the readership of our newsletter. We will have a user-friendly portal for outreach access, with links to Hemispheres, the international outreach consortium at UT, of which CES is a vital member, along with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES).

We will also use our newsletter to advertise our fellow US and Canadian Centers of EU Excellence. We will have links to their websites embedded in the newsletter and will inform our readership of their upcoming events.
To assess the success of our newsletter we will primarily look at the statistics of our readership. We will also have an email link in our newsletter for suggestions on how we can improve it.

With the newsletter we aim to fulfill the expected outcomes of all the proposed Objectives. The newsletter will increase awareness of our educational events, it will constitute an important strategy in our public outreach, it will strengthen “people-to-people” links, it will consolidate and enhance the effectiveness of the network of EU Centers of excellence, and it will center our activities in ongoing UT programs through increased visibility and advertising.