The Edward de Bono Foundation


	This section is intended to provide applicants with an overview of Socrates National Agencies’ selection courses for the De Bono Thinking Methods for Comenius 2 in-service training grants. It should be noted that selection decisions and the issuing of grant agreements to successful candidates is dependent on National Agencies having received their contracts and funding from the European Commission. Instructions To Candidates for a Comenius 2 In-Service Traning Grant or a Grundtvig 3 Individual Traning Grant How should applicants for an in-service training grant proceed? 1. Contact your own National Agency to obtain a grant application form and to check the deadline for submitting your application. 2. Once you have selected a training event, contact the training organiser to check that places are still available. You may want to make a pre-registration, although this is not required for making an application for funding. If the organiser requires payment of pre-registration fee, you should be aware that you will have to cover this cost yourself if your National Agency does not award you a grant. 3. Send your application form to your National Agency.

4. Your National Agency will inform you if you have been awarded a grant.

5. You should then immediately contact the training provider to formally register for the course or to confirm your pre-registration. If you have not been awarded a grant but made a pre-registration, you need to cancel this.

6. From the moment your National Agency confirms that you have been awarded a grant, you have responsibilities towards the training provider. If you then cancel your attendance at the event, you will be responsible for paying any cancellation fees which the training provider may claim. Only in very exceptional cases of force majeure (e.g. illness or death of the grant applicant or a family member) may the National Agency pay cancellation fees using grant money.

7. At the end of the training event, the organisers must hold an evaluation session. Your opinion on the quality of the training is important; training which is considered to be of poor quality will be further investigated by the National Agency of the training provider and may be removed from the database.