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AI and EU Funding – Is the System Reaching Breaking Point? With Annika Jaansoo Check out the €500 EU project campaign Check out the episode website AI has made proposal writing faster and more accessible. But what happens when thousands of applicants discover the same thing? In episode #249, I’m joined by Annika Jaansoo , an EU funding professional with more than three decades of experience in cro...

From Newcomer to Strategic EU Partner – The BLOXHUB Journey An in-person conversation with CEO Torben Klitgaard Check out the €500 campaign for EU projects Check out the episode website with more information For episode #248, I visit BLOXHUB in Copenhagen to meet CEO Torben Klitgaard and follow an unusually complete EU funding journey: from entering the field as a newcomer to making EU projects a...

Supporting Startups and SMEs into EU Funding With Lise Pape and Rasmus Mørk Check out how you can collaborate with The Grant Check out the episode website In my earlier field recording with Lise Pape from Walk With Path , we touched on the support she had received from Greater Copenhagen EU Office . This time, I bring Lise together with Rasmus Mørk , who has been supporting her, to look more close...

Experienced Exploitation – From Results to Real-World Value With Carmen Bianca Socaciu Check out the episode website Check out how you can work with The Grant Exploitation is ultimately about what happens to the results of an EU-funded project beyond the project itself. In episode #246, I’m joined by Carmen Bianca Socaciu , who has worked with exploitation for more than a decade, to explore what t...

The RM Framework Quality Label – Making Training Comparable RM Framework Series #11 with Blanka Csite from EARMA Check out the episode webiste with links Research management training across Europe comes in many different forms—from accredited university programmes to short professional courses, micro-credentials and training delivered by professional associations. In episode #11 of the RM Framewor...

Inside Creative Europe – Helping Culture & Media Access EU Funding With Nicoline Joy Haas and Lone Friboe Garde from Creative Europe Desk Denmark Check out the episode website for more information Want you own podcast? Reach out For episode #245, I travelled to the Danish Film Institute in Copenhagen , where Nicoline Joy Haas and Lone Friboe Garde joined me for an in-person recording inside on...

Tidligere på året udsendte The Grant i samarbejde med Aalborg Universitets Missionssekretariat en podcastepisode som introducerede forskere og forskningsteams til missions-tilgangen. Nu er det blevet tid til en samtale om hvordan man effektmåler i den missionsdrevne forskningstilgang, når flere forskellige forskningsdiscipliner og samfundsaktører er involveret. I episoden taler jeg med Maria Abel...

Adjusting the Course – When EU Projects Don’t Go to Plan Implementation Series #17 with Antonietta Pizza from ENCO Consulting See how you can collaborate with The Grant Check out the episode website Nothing goes exactly according to plan in a multi-year EU project. Activities are delayed, technical results differ from expectations, one work package becomes dependent on another, partners go quiet,...

Inside the Proposal Deadline – Life at a Grant Consultancy An in-person recording with Søren Houmøller, Maria Battistel and Tereza Marie-Jo Berk from 1st Mile Check out the episode website with links, photos from the session etc. What does a grant consultancy actually look like when several proposal deadlines are approaching at once? For episode #243, I visit 1st Mile at DTU during a busy proposal...

Testing the RM Framework – What the Pilots Taught Us RM Framework Series #10 with Marcos Gomes Check out the episode website for more information In episode #10 of the RM Framework Series , I’m joined again by Marcos Gomes from the University of Coimbra to look at the first lessons from the project’s pilot-testing phase. Different training providers across Europe have been using the draft handbook...

From Idea to Market – Building Walk With Path with EU Funding An in-person conversation with founder Lise Pape Check out the episode website For episode #242, I travelled to Walk With Path’s Copenhagen office for an in-person conversation with founder Lise Pape . We start with the technology and the story behind it: a medtech journey influenced by Lise’s experience of her father’s Parkinson’s dise...

Innovation Fund Proposal Writing (2) – Writing & Submission With Irene Larroy from EY and Marco Molica Colella from Hydrogen Europe In the second half of our Innovation Fund proposal-writing double episode , we move from preparation to actually building the application. Irene Larroy and Marco Molica Colella take us through the documents, annexes and evaluation criteria that make an Innovation...

Innovation Fund Proposal Writing (1) – Preparation & Innovation With Irene Larroy from EY and Marco Molica Colella from Hydrogen Europe Check out the episode website In this first of two episodes on Innovation Fund proposal writing , I’m joined by Irene Larroy from EY and Marco Molica Colella from Hydrogen Europe . We focus on the traditional Innovation Fund grants and Net-Zero Technologies ca...

A New ERA for Research Management RM Framework Series #9 with Anna Seip from DG RTD Check out the episode website Why has research management become a European policy priority? In episode #9 of the RM Framework Series, I’m joined by Anna Seip, Policy Officer at DG RTD , to trace the policy journey behind the initiatives we have been exploring throughout this series. We go back to the renewed Europ...

Exploitation in EU Projects – From Results to Real Use With Ana-Marija Špicnagel, Director at IPS Konzalting Check out the episode website In this episode of my Implementation Series , I’m joined by Ana-Marija Špicnagel from IPS Konzalting for a practical guide to exploitation in EU-funded projects. We begin with the basics: communication tells people what the project is doing, dissemination share...

EU Funding in the Western Balkans – The View from Albania With Luziana Hoxha from the Agricultural University of Tirana Check out the episode website In this episode, I’m joined by Luziana Hoxha from the Agricultural University of Tirana to look at EU funding from the perspective of Albania and the Western Balkans . Albania is associated with Horizon Europe, so on paper its universities and resear...

How RTOs Turn Research into Impact – The Spanish Model With Patricia Castillo, Director of Impact at Eurecat Check out the episode website In this episode, I’m joined by Patricia Castillo, Director of Impact at Eurecat , to explore what research and technology organisations actually do and why they occupy such an important place in Europe’s innovation ecosystem. RTOs sit between universities, comp...

Rethinking Impact – From Funded Projects to Real Adoption With Christopher Adlung from TU Delft Check out the episode website In this episode, I’m joined by Christopher Adlung , a PhD researcher at TU Delft and a medtech entrepreneur, to rethink what impact actually means in EU-funded research and innovation. Christopher studies the adoption and scaling of telemedicine in low-resource settings, an...

WIN4SMES – Supporting Young Entrepreneurs and Young Professionals with Disabilities Two pilot stories from Hungary and Lithuania Check out the episode website In this episode I return to the WIN4SMES universe with a closer look at two pilot stories that deserved their own spotlight. In the first half, I speak with Tamas Rettich from the Hungarian Association of Craftsmen’s Corporations about a one...

EU Funding in Culture and Creativity With Paolo Montemurro from Matera Hub Check out the episode website In this episode I’m joined by Paolo Montemurro from Materahub to open up the European funding landscape for culture and creativity . This is a conversation I’ve wanted to do for a long time, because if you cover EU funding broadly, the cultural and creative sectors are too important to leave un...

RM Framework (7) – The Hungary Pilot at Corvinus University Accredited RM training, formal education and the limits of standardisation Check out the episode website In the seventh episode of the RM Framework Series , I’m joined by Associate Professor Éva Pinter and Éva Kőváriné Ignáth from Corvinus University of Budapest to explore the Hungarian pilot. Corvinus brings a very specific and valuable...

Interreg – An Introduction With Viktoria Nilsson from Lund Municipality Check out the episode website for links In this episode I introduce the Interreg funding scheme together with Viktoria Nilsson from Lund Municipality . Interreg is one of the EU’s oldest territorial cooperation programmes, and its core idea is both simple and important: many societal challenges are shared across borders, so ne...

How Regions Build the Foundations for EU Funding With Alina Totti from Provincie Noord-Brabant Check out the episode website In this episode I’m joined by Alina Totti from Provincie Noord-Brabant to talk about how regions build the foundations that eventually lead to EU funding . Noord-Brabant is one of Europe’s most innovative regions, with strong advanced manufacturing traditions and a global in...

With Thomas Brent from Science Business Check out the episode website In this episode I’m joined by Thomas Brent from Science Business for a practical status update on Widening in FP10 . We go back to the roots of the debate: why Widening was created in the first place, how it was meant to help countries with weaker research capacity connect more effectively into the framework programme, and why s...

A documentary-style episode from Hamburg on vocational excellence, inclusion and SMEs Check out the episode website In this episode I try something new: a documentary-style montage recorded live during a WIN4SMES event in Hamburg. Instead of one long sit-down conversation, this episode moves through soundscapes, field notes, participant voices and short interviews to give a more immediate sense of...