Setting up a project and project management

It is not generally known that the European institutions subsidise projects in many areas (research in new technologies, public health, telecommunications and transport etc.). These projects are proposed and carried out by economic stakeholders in order to realise political or technical objectives of specific programmes. Considerable financial means are often earmarked for this purpose.

In order to set up a European project, merely an innovating idea alone is not sufficient. Feasible financing and the involvement of solid partners are essential. In setting-up a project precisely these two elements have to be provided for. This is all the more important when it concerns a project on a European or international scale.

Strict organisation of work and methodological planning are required to complete the project successfully and in accordance with the rules on financial modalities. Professional project management is particularly important to deal with the different mentalities of various national partners.

What Squaris can do for you

Advice on assembling the elements required for setting up the project:

• Project: Analysis of objectives, resources, innovative character, timing and planning, the sought for added value at a Community level
• Financing: Search for a relevant budget line, evaluation of eligibility conditions according to the Community programme, terms of participation or financial commitment of own resources, setting up the budget and/or the financing plan
• Partnership-network: Search for partners according to a clearly defined profile, setting up consortia
• Setting up the offer: Project presentation, application for subsidy and submission to the services of the contracting authority

Project management :

• Organisation of work: Prepare meetings and working documents, ensure information flow and continuously monitor the website, possibly search for appropriate experts
• Administrative and financial management: Preparation of budget, control of expenses, collection of expense vouchers, drafting of progress reports, preparation of audits
• Logistical support: Reservation of meeting rooms, hotels...

Our trump cards

• Identification of and fast access to sources of information
• A large network of contacts to find partners
• A thorough knowledge of administrative procedures and financial rules to support financing applications, in particular for projects with a European and international dimension
• A vast experience in project management

Your strategic lead

European funding may enable you to start and sustain a project that otherwise you would not have considered for lack of resources.
Thanks to cooperation with new partners you will be able to develop new synergies. Last but not least: The opening-up of new international markets only because of European aid.