Technology is your fuel for prosperous business. We examine your challenges and support you by finding appropriate scientific and technological project collaborators. Thereafter the process starts with applying for funding. We examine the funding opportunity, build the consortium/find necessary partners, provide the IT and communication infrastructure, prepare a high-quality proposal with continuous review loops, check for compliance and finally, submit the proposal. During the Grant agreement preparation phase, we gather legal, administrative and financial information, make sure the Description of Action and the budget match the proposal and address the evaluation comments. Together with the project funder, we ensure that all ethical issues are addressed and prepare for the next phase. For Project execution we move into Grant management mode. We plan a kick-off meeting, help partners with day to day questions and reporting, create handbooks for a smooth execution of the project and create a clear communication structure within the consortium. We offer various project management tools and manuals, responsible for the operational management and technical vitality of the project. We focus on the creation of dissemination material and a project website. We create data management plans and dissemination and open access strategies. Finally, we organise and execute regular meetings and conference calls with the consortium.

We develop, maintain and provide various secure collaboration tools to monitor and manage RTD work. Our IT services have received several innovation prizes for completeness and security. These services reside on redundant, high-availability servers in multiple European locations. We provide a full-blown project communication & collaboration IT infrastructure to our research project consortium to support internal and external communication. Our Open-Source collaboration tools serve approximately 3500 concurrent users with single-sign-on functionality. Our IT services based on secure and high-availability virtualised cloud- and on-premise server systems provide the highest level of flexibility due to self-developed features based on our customers’ needs.

We can leverage our expertise by helping you. We have executed many grant agreements so we can offer support to our partners in day-to-day requests with regard to the grant agreement, consortium agreement and legal requirements. We also stay up to date by regularly checking for new guidelines and adopting the project handbooks accordingly. We not only collect this information but we find ways of sharing it with our customers. Technikon offers tutorials such as “How to effectively use SVN” https://vimeo.com/339960531 and helps with financial reporting in H2020 projects https://vimeo.com/334646886. We also offer educational courses which are designed and carried out by our experienced project managers.