Our business lines
Guiding you through the innovation-to-impact journey.
Whether you are a research institution, business or public organisation, our consultancy services help you secure funding, strengthen communication and stakeholder engagement, develop better solutions or bring an innovation to market.
We work with you to understand your priorities and combine the expertise across our business lines best suited to your priorities. Whether you need support across the full innovation journey or on a single stage of it, we focus on practical input that advances your objectives.
Proposal Consulting
We help you turn ideas into competitive funding proposals.
We identify European funding opportunities aligned with your objectives and help you decide which ones to pursue.
From shaping the project and building the consortia and partnerships that make proposals credible to designing impact- driven application, we help you build a strong and compelling proposals.
Our services:
- Funding opportunity monitoring and assessment
- Project concept and impact strategy development
- Partner identification and consortium building
- Proposal development and writing
Communication and Engagement
Connect with your audiences and turn visibility into measurable engagement and impact.
We help you design and implement impact-driven communication strategies by creating communication content that help organisations reach their audiences, explain complex ideas clearly, and engage stakeholders. We tailor formats, messages and channels to your objectives and audience needs, supporting targeted communication and dissemination activities.
Our services:
- Communication strategy and storytelling
- Visual identity and graphic design
- Content production and distribution: newsroom services, podcasts, videos, publications
- Online communication channels setup and management
- Event design, organisation and facilitation
Communication and engagement analytics
Understand your audiences. Make informed communication decisions.
We analyse your communication data to help you understand how audiences engage and where to focus your efforts. We support research teams, consortia and communication leads, as well as organisations seeking to improve their communication performance.
Our proprietary Community Engagement Index (CEI) brings together outreach and engagement indicators to inform practical recommendations for your communication strategy and activities.
Our services:
- Communication data management
- Audience and engagement analysis
- Communication performance measurement
- Reporting, visualisation and recommendations
Social Contextualisation, Participatory Design and Evaluation
Shape innovation around people’s needs and the conditions for adoption.
Drawing on our expertise in social sciences and humanities (SSH), we help research teams, businesses and public organisations understand the needs of users and communities, involve them in designing solutions, and assess potential social and economic effects, as well as barriers to acceptance. Through research, consultation and co-design, we support decisions that make innovations relevant, inclusive and workable in practice.
Our services:
- Societal research and needs assessment
- Participatory processes and user-centred design
- Socio-economic impact and technology acceptance assessment
- Policy analysis and anticipatory governance
Innovation and commercialisation strategy
Build a credible route from innovation to market.
We work alongside research teams, start-ups and established businesses to assess the commercial potential of their innovations and identify market opportunities. Together, we examine client needs, competition and potential partners, develop viable business models, assess scalability and shape go-to-market strategies. As your innovation develops, we help you translate evidence into decisions, set priorities and adapt the next steps towards market entry and growth.
Our services:
- Innovation potential assessment
- Market and ecosystem analysis
- Cost-benefits analysis
- Business model development
- Business planning and go-to-market strategy
Project Management and Programme Delivery
We help you turn plans into results, on time and on budget.
We coordinate, plan and monitor every phase of your project, and manage technical and financial reporting and compliance We support day-to-day operations, by applying the PM² methodology to structure responsibilities, guide delivery and enable timely decisions.
Our services:
- Project planning and progress monitoring
- Project coordination and operational management
- Technical and financial reporting
Training and capacity building
We design and deliver tailored training across our areas of expertise, helping researchers, businesses and communities develop knowledge and skills.
From content development to delivery, we manage the full training programme or provide targeted support where you need it. Our offer also includes cultural programmes that combine learning with community engagement.
Our services:
- Programme design and content development
- Training delivery and workshop facilitation
- Organisation, participant coordination and technical support
- Cultural programme development for learning and community engagement
Examples of training topics:
- European funding and proposal preparation
- Science communication and storytelling
- Circular economy for cities and public administrations
- Business modelling and value proposition design
Discuss your training needs with us
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Relying on a strong know-how in multidisciplinary research and innovation fields, we transfer results and leading-edge innovation to society, through an integrated process that leverages on effective and focussed strategies developed in three areas