Our services

In general

As Europe’s leading full-service independent grants consultancy, with 500 experts in 13 countries (plus partners elsewhere), we cover the whole of Europe, offering a full range of services, including:

• identifying grant opportunities
• making grants proposals
• compliance services
• project design & project management
• lobbying
• consortium management
• advice on Public-Private Partnerships

Our highly experienced consultants first identify – out of more than 20,000 grant schemes – the most promising funding programmes which match your research strategies (the initiation phase). Then we help submit a high-quality grant application, taking into account all the requirements of the application, thus maximising your chances of approval (the application phase). To make certain that you finally receive payment, we ensure that complex administrative criteria are met and assist with project management (the compliance phase). We also regularly provide process management – monitoring and optimising the entire grant procurement process.

Whether you need professional input for a particular project at a single location or you a broad view on how to implement grants strategically in an extensive cross-border network, we provide the best grant consultancy.

1. Initiate

As grants are our core business, we identify your most promising grant opportunities early in the project cycle – matching your ambitions, objectives, and intended projects and investments with available funding programmes (there are more than 7,000 schemes in UK alone).

Our proactive approach, which involves identifying funding and matching projects to specific schemes leads to successful results. While ‘following the money’ – monitoring all available subsidy schemes – we also actively ‘follow our customers’, gaining clear insight into your strategic projects that might be fundable, even if you hadn't previously considered applying for grants. Over the years, this approach has benefited numerous clients.

2. Apply

In the application phase, we prepare and submit high-quality grant applications to the appropriate funding authority, optimising your chances of success. We do this by:

• gathering information and preparing applications
• drafting project business plans
• finding the right project partners
• providing advice on state aid rules, writing and filing grant applications, and providing assistance during proposal evaluation and contract negotiations.

3. Ensure compliance

Grants are public funding and therefore require administrative quality checks as to whether the funding has indeed led to the desired innovation or more sustainable production method.

However, these administrative requirements are numerous and time consuming. In this part of the grant consultancy process, we help you organise your entire administration, ensuring that you fully comply with all requirements, right up to the moment when the final grant payment is received.

4. Manage the whole process

The objective of our process management service is to ensure effective efficient execution of the total grant procurement process. We do this by providing up-to-date management information and management control, surveying all the options and monitoring progress. We control quality and guarantee high performance.

Process management is an integral part of our service. We’ve learned that thorough management of the overall grant procurement process is essential to obtaining optimal benefits from public funding.

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