Advices and tools for writing a project proposal

The book is the third year progress of the Project "SoURCE Sustainable Urban Cells" a “Significant Bilateral Project” approved within the Executive Programme on Scientific and Technological Cooperation between Italian Republic and the Kingdom of Sweden, under the research area Energy and Environment: Sustainable Cities. The project, financed for the Italian side by the Ministry of Education, University and Research, is carried out by the CITERA (Centro Interdipartimentale Territorio Edilizia, Restauro, Ambiente - Interdepartmental Centre for Territory, Housing, Heritage and Environment) of the Sapienza University of Rome and the Department of Urban Planning & Environment of the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm. Starting from a project idea, this chapter briefly reports some useful advices to get funds for private companies and public authorities. Given the significant importance of the European funding, the chapter describes the design of a project proposal, highlighting the most frequent criticalities and some hints to give added values to it.