Organisations Ready for Projects: Trainer Presentation Slides

Author: Michal Hladký

The slide deck used by Michal Hladký during ZMINA:Resilience Capacity Building Webinar #1: Organisations Ready for Projects.

The presentation covers the full arc of the session across five thematic blocks: the structural difference between organisations and projects (and the risk of losing strategic sovereignty when the two are conflated); the five-dimension project readiness framework — strategic, operational, financial, leadership, and network capacity — with a self-assessment tool participants can apply to their own organisation; a practical Go/No-Go decision framework for evaluating EU funding opportunities, including how to read calls top-down from policy logic rather than bottom-up from activities; the role of networks as accumulated trust and strategic capital rather than contact lists; and the concept of legacy design — the principle that a project should leave a permanent structural improvement behind, not just a final report.

The slides are the primary visual reference for the session and are best used alongside the video recording. Case studies from the trainer's practice — including Creative Industry Košice, Košice European Capital of Culture 2013, and the European Creative Business Network — are referenced in slide form and elaborated in the video.