The handbook introduces to the tools and techniques of European project management. The European Project Manager is a professional expert in European funding programmes and project design and management techniques. It aims to seek for funds at European and international level to trigger and manage local territorial development and cooperation. The European project manager has a high level profile, with a high operational autonomy, good public relations skills, competences in administrative, economic, sociologic and linguistic fields. It assumes a perfect knowledge of European funding programmes and management of funding resources. The opportunities offered by European funds are numerous as the sectors they can be applied to: environment, education and training, citizenship, public organization, youth, research and innovation, cooperation and development, entrepreneurship and competitiveness.