EU research project management companies
Yes, there are some project management companies out there in Europe specialised on managing Horizon2020 projects. Please find below a list of some very active companies. We will update the list in future. Should you miss any specific company just let us know.
Link: http://www.accelopment.com
Founder: Jeanette Müller
Offices: Switzerland
Employees: circa 14
Accelopment is based in Zurich and it is specialised in different research areas, industries and funding programmes.
1. Accelopment
Link: http://www.sciprom.ch
Founder: Kirsten Leufgen
Offices: Switzerland
Employees: circa 5
SCIPROM's is a project management company with a strong background in the science area. They develop their services with focus in innovation and good communication.
2. Sciprom
Link: https://concentris.de/en
Founder: Ameli Schwalber
Offices: Germany
Employees: circa 11
Concentris provides support for funded research projects and consultancy services. As they have personell for event management you can say that this is one of their key areas.
Link: https://www.collaborate.eu
Founder: Carl Steinbeisser
Offices: Germany
Employees: 3
Collaborate is a young project management company. Their proposal service makes use of Sharepoint as a document sharing platform. In the area of project management of running projects they are quite involved in public-private partnerships.
3. Collaborate
4. Concentris
5. LINQ
Link: https://www.eurice.eu
Founder: Jörg Scherer
Offices: France, Germany, Belgium, England, Israel
Employees: circa 41
EURICE was funded as a spin-off form a German University. Involved asa partner in the well known IT-Helpdesk. It has now offices in 5 European countries.
6. EURICE
7. LGI Consulting
Link: http://lgi-consulting.com
Founder: Vincent Chauvet
Offices: France
Employees: circa 22
LGI Consulting was founded in 2005. They work with multinational companies, small and medium enterprises, research centres, universities and public institutions from across Europe.
Link: http://www.arttic.eu/pages/en/home.php
Founder: Christian Baumhauer
Offices: France, Germany, Belgium, England, Israel
Employees: circa 85
Founded in 1987, ARTTIC is one of the biggest consultancy companies in the area of research projects, having offices in 5 countries. ARTTIC was acquired by PNO Consultants in 2019.
8. ARTTIC
Link: https://www.ayming.co.uk
Founder: Martin Hook
Offices: France, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Employees: circa 38
Ayming is a business specialised in innovation, finance, operation and people. This company has 15 offices around the world.
9. Ayming
Link: https://innovayt.eu
Founder: Kenneth Glarbo
Offices: Denmark, Portugal, Norway
Employees: 37
10. Innovayt
Link: https://www.lygature.org
Founder: Andre Broekmans
Offices: Netherlands
Employees: 43
Lygature is a not-for-profit organization that works managing partnerships involving academia, industry and society to develop new medical solutions for patients.
11. Lygature
Link: https://www.ttopstart.com
Founder: Patrick de Boer
Offices: Netherlands
Employees: 17
ttopstart is fast growing company in the field of life science, medical technology and healthcare. With the majority of their employees working as consultants, it focuses more on proposals than on project management. Like ARTTIC, ttopstart was acquired by the PNO group.
12. ttopstart
Link: https://www.catalyze-group.com
Founder: Theodoor Rutgers
Offices: Netherlands:
Employees: 72
13. Catalyze
Link: https://synapse-managers.com
Founder: Carlos Díaz
Offices: Spain
Employees: 21
Synapse is fast growing company involved in many EC funded projects.
Link: https://www.biosciconsulting.com
Founder: Scott Wagers
Offices: Belgium
Employees: 3
Scott Wagers, the founder runs an interesting blog and frequently publishes his thoughts on
working in different research consortia: www.biosciconsulting.com/assembled-chaos