Project writing – Mariliis Maremäe

Your club has ideas. Who pays for them?

One of the seminars at the European Combat Sports Festival will be led by Mariliis Maremäe: a youth work specialist and certified adult trainer with long international experience, who has written, coordinated, and partnered in numerous Erasmus+ and other funded projects.

This seminar is a practical crash course in turning an idea – a camp, a tournament, an exchange, a new programme for your gym – into a fundable project. No theory, no bureaucracy for its own sake: what funders actually look for and how to give it to them.

During the seminar, you will learn:

• Where combat sports clubs and youth organisations can find funding, and which programmes fit which ideas.
• How to structure a project so that the goal, activities, and budget make sense to an evaluator.
• What separates applications that get funded from those that get rejected.
• How to get started with your first project without prior experience.

This seminar is designed for coaches, club leaders, youth workers, and anyone running a combat sports organisation who wants to bring outside funding into their work.