This time I sit down with Paola D’Elia, an Erasmus+ evaluator and researcher in cognitive and educational psychology, to talk about something most people get wrong:
👉 Quality in EU projects isn’t about perfect proposals. It’s about making real change on the ground — for students, for teachers, for entire systems.
Paola shares why evaluation is more than a box-ticking exercise — it's a compass, guiding your project to stay true to its mission and adapt in real time.
“Evaluation isn’t just about reports and deadlines.
It’s listening, comparing, adjusting. It’s making sure we’re actually taking people with us.”
— Paola D’Elia
🚀 Plus: Inside my AWTY Index & a €30M opportunity
In this episode you’ll also get:
✅ A personal look behind the AWTY Green Transition Index —
I’ve spent most of the last year gathering over 40,000 data points to track how close countries really are to clean, circular, resilient growth.
(And the Green pillar is just the start. The next four transitions are coming in the weeks ahead.)
✅ An open Horizon Europe call that could fund your next big idea —
up to €30 million available for scaling strategic tech in digital, clean, and biotech.
I break down eligibility, expected outcomes, and why your innovation might fit perfectly.
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💡 If you’re drafting a proposal…
Try my SmartProposalAI. It’s like having an evaluator on your team, helping you instantly improve your proposal’s clarity, alignment, and impact.
👉 Check it out here
📬 Want more?
Subscribe to my newsletter Polis Doxa – The Transitions Letter where I release the full dataset, methodology, and country-by-country breakdown of the AWTY Green Transition Index (and all other parts of the AWTY Index).
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💬 Let’s connect
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Let’s make EU funding simpler, smarter, and more impactful — together.
🗳 Last week’s poll results:
We asked: “What’s Europe really missing?”
0% said More R&D, less PR
25% chose Real tech sovereignty
25% picked Startups with courage
0% think it’s Politicians with backbone
A whopping 50% said: All of the above (but faster)
Seems we agree — Europe needs everything… just with a serious speed boost.
We’ll dig deeper into this in the next issue.
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