Dear all, please help me with correcting of the letter bellow. I need to ask a foreign university to except me for a work stay. Thanks a lot! Zuzana

Dear Mrs. ...,

I would like to introduce myself. My name is .... Since 2009, I have been working as a Project Coordinator at the Office of International Affairs and Development of the University of ..., city, country.

I am writing to you to express my interest and motivation in completing a work stay at your office. As your institution has been very successful at obtaining funding from EU and other sources I would be grateful to gain some experience while working with you and your colleagues at the Fundraising and Project Management Office of ... University. On the other hand, we would be delighted to welcome some of your people at our university in future.

I am interested in :

Meeting your university and office structure, new people, becoming an active part of your office team (to help you with concrete task)

Comparing your way of work to ours (to shade someone)

Learning about your successful projects, resources, project application process

Please, see some more information about my person:

I am part of the university project team (mostly the area of education, reaseach and innovations), and i am fully responsible for both new project applications (1)and for managing of the succesfully accepted projects (2).

1. I am coordinating Developing projects of Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and EU projects

- methodological assistance to qualified investigators with the preparation and implementation of national and european projects under the scope of Operational Programme Education for Competitiveness and Development for Research and Innovation

- budget setting

- strategic points of new projects
- supervision of the project implementation, monitoring and ongoing evaluation
- preparation of interim and final project report
- preparation of initial and ongoing analysis, studies, researches
- active cooperation and communication with financial support managers, project partners and the various departments at the University of ...

2. I am co-managing 2 EU Project (Key Activity Manager, Educational Manager)


- organization, planning and coordination of the trainings, worshops, seminars

- communication with the target groups, service providers, the project team
- coordination of key activities
- preparation and completion of study materials for the target group
- supervision of the education, evaluation
- project promotion
- assisting in the procurement procedures

The visit would take place in March/ April 2011 from 1 up to 3 weeks (according to your capacity). Can you give me a feedback, if this is possible for you?

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

With best wishes from ...

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