WHO WE ARE

Info in a Nutshell

Our structure

EUCONTACT AT HOME IN EUROPE LTD., shortly EUCONTACT, is a not-for-profit social and educational company, with its headquarters in Cork/Ireland and various project-related liaison offices in Europe. The offices in the Single European Market operate throughout the duration of the corresponding, ongoing cross-national EU projects.

Very often, our clients call us “EUROCONTACT”, due to our activity scope related to EU GRANTS acquisition, more exactly development and implementation of international projects, funded by the EUROPEAN UNION. Of course, we don´t mind!

We are the alternative to the EU-GRANT OFFICER

We are the alternative to the EU-GRANT OFFICER, offering the possibility of long-term cooperations, as PARTNER, on an EXCLUSIVITY basis, without running staff costs, providing a META-competence, as bundle of interdisciplinary competences, for the PARTNER institutions we work for and with in order to develop and implement bids/project applications funded by the EU. We contribute to developing the capacity building at the level of the PARTNER institutions we work with and for with regards to strengthening their competences in the area of bid developed to access EU funds and implement such EU-granted projects.

Insiders

We are familiarized with the EU “from within”, understanding and monitoring the European policy developments, relevant for a successful EU GRANT acquisition.

We are indeed, at home in Europe and we are, what we do: international, European, creative, innovative, sustainable, strong both in the conceptional, as well as in the implementation part.

We crack it!

We have the specific mental setting “to crack it!”, bringing projects to an end under conditions of uncertainty, ambiguity and unforeseeable changes (see the recent Corona pandemic and barriers for the cross-national project development & implementation, inflation due to the energy crisis, turning EU funded budgets upside-down in the implementation phase). Yet we walked the talk and brought to end the projects we had started.

How we promote innovation in the European Educational Area

Our interdisciplinarity and creativity shines through our eclectic mix of areas we practically operate in and through the aspects we promote in our cross-national, European projects, such as:, in short:

ICT – AI, Manufacturing and Machining, Health, Hospitality and Catering, Energy Efficiency in Construction, Sustainability,
Integration of sector-specific foreign language courses into the IVT area across Europe;
Promote the European Educational Area by developing cross-national vocational qualifiation contents, relevant for the labour market in Europe;
Promote the European Labour market by boosting the employability of young people from structurally weakly-developed EU regions by facilitating the transition from the “world of education” to the “world of work” at European level;
Promote the cross-national mobility of young people in initial vocational qualification/IVT in weakly-developed European regions, helping them undertake work-based learning / WBL in companies/public institutions, based in well-developed European regions;
Provide European solutions to national problems, such as reducing the skills shortage in well-developed EU-regions, lacking qualified young talent on grounds of demographic change and other mismatches in their respective labour market;

Detailed Info

We are familiarized with the EU “from within”

The sense of “belonging to the same Club”, knowing the EU “from within”, is important for the ability to understand and monitor the European policy developments, impacting the acquisition of EU FUNDS and project implementation. Before joining EUCONTACT, the members of our team worked both with European institutions and institutions with European activity scope, thus having longtime, comprehensive, hands-on insights into the European funding programmes and a history of successful participation in bids and tendering procedures.

We are, indeed, at home in Europe!

We are international, not only work internationally: as our members of staff originate from various EU countries, we have a good command not only of our clients´ and project partners´ language, but we are also aware of their country-specific mentality and the history of their countries, from an European outlook.

The geographical scope of our activity with regards to EU-GRANTS acquisition and implementation of EU-granted projects currently covers the following countries: Ireland (ROI), Denmark, Sweden, Romania, Hungary., Slovakia, Croatia. Future prospective activities shall include: Norway (EFTA), The West Balkans and Ukraine, as applicant countries for EU membership.

Specific mental setting

The mental setting can be a “make-or-break” factor for the success of EU FUNDS acquisition and, in most of the cases, it is missed out by institutions when searching for staff or partners for EU bid development and implementation. The most relevant 2 features in this respect are:

professional handling of short-term changes, unforeseeable situations – recently tested out, being among the few institutions in Europe, able to complete our cross-national projects under the lockdown restrictions of the Corona pandemic and inflation due to the energy crisis, turning EU funded budgets upside-down in the implementation phase);
stress-proof and the ability of preserving calmness and a problem-solving attitude in times of distress.

How we promote innovation in the European Educational Area

ICT – AI, Manufacturing and Machining, Health, Hospitality and Catering, Energy Efficiency in Construction, Sustainability,
Cross-national young talent and skilled worker mobility in Europe, form research to practical projects;
Cooperations between various educational stakeholders at European level, such as Universities, VET Colleges, Research Centers, companies and public institutions across Europe;
Integration of sector-specific foreign language courses into the IVT area across Europe;
We play a part in implementing Europe´s cohesion goals, specializing in piloting, with and without EU Funding Programmes, innovative strategies and concepts, fostering the employability of young people from structurally underdeveloped EU-regions, against the background of unemployment and poverty of these European regions;
Promote the European Educational Area by developing and implementing cross-national educational projects between VET Colleges in structurally weak EU-regions and companies/public institutions in structurally strong EU-regions;
Promote the European Labour market by boosting the employability of young people from structurally weakly-developed EU regions by facilitating the transition from the “world of education” to the “world of work” at European level;
Development of cross-national co-operations between vocational colleges, based in weakly-developed European regions and companies/public institutions, based in well-developed European regions;
Promote the cross-national mobility of young people in initial vocational qualification/IVT in weakly-developed European regions, helping them undertake work-based learning / WBL in companies/public institutions, based in well-developed European regions;

Provide European solutions to national problems, such as reducing the skills shortage in well-developed EU-regions, lacking qualified young talent on grounds of demographic change and other mismatches in their respective labour market;

EU-FUNDING-BIDS is a project line by EUCONTACT.

For more information on our full spectrum of activities, visit https://www.eucontact.eu/what-we-do/;
For more information on our EU GRANT acquisition and project implementation activities, visit https://www.eu-funding-bids.eu/what-we-do/.