Despite the positive evaluation of the project idea, its scientific excellence and a potentially great impact funding often is not granted due to poor project planning or because applicants fail todemonstrate the effective exploitation of results to maximise the project impact. While poor project planning usually is the result of a lack of methodology and critical self-assessment during the projectplanning process, the inconclusive exploitation measures are down to insufficient inclusion of consortium members and important stakeholders.The PCM with its main tool, the Logical Framework Approach (LFA), is an approach designed for the planning and execution of complex projects with multiple stakeholders and today is used by mostmulti-lateral and bi-lateral funding bodies, including the European Commission who adopted the PCM in 1992 as its primary set of project design and management tools.This training will provide participants with the theoretical knowledge and hands-on practice necessary to apply the Logical Framework Approach to their individual project development process to thereby maximise their chances in various funding programmes, but above all in Horizon 2020.