This hands-on, practical and interactive online course has as an aim to provide its audience with a chart on the most useful and practical EU information resources, and demonstrate to them which tools to use to quickly obtain official documents, publications, statistics, open data and legal information about EU, how to intervene in EU consultations and express and voice interests in the making of EU legislation and how to find about funding opportunities provided by the EU and apply to projects and public contracts.

What will you learn?

Thanks to this online course, you will learn how to find quickly and efficiently:

• policy initiatives, legislative proposals and work programmes;
• legislation, case law and summaries of legislation;
• policy papers and press releases;
• public procurement notices, call for tenders, grants and loans;
• bibliographical, translation, linguistic and terminological information;
• contact information, ‘who’s who’ and ‘who’s doing what’ in the

This online course includes two supplementary modules, which are available on our online learning platform Moodle one week before the start of the ;

The EU’s ‘Who’s who’: 

• EU Institutions: InstitutionalOrganisation & Charts and Directories; 
• Expert Groups; and
• Transparency Register: Civil SocietyOrganisations operating at the European Union level, NGOs ;

Publications, bibliographical, translation, linguistic and terminological information 

• European Commission Library, EU Bookshop
• IATE, EU Glossary, EUROVOC, Acronyms and abbreviations

Moodle will also act as an electronic repository of the extensive training and pedagogical material (PP presentations, guideline documents, audio-visual material, etc.

) supporting the online course.