Project & program management

Hire an EU-funded project manager in Greece and Cyprus

The approval is the easy part: someone to run the funded project to the rules written into the funding decision, from the first work package to the audit years later.

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EU funding comes with a second project inside the first: work packages, eligible costs, procurement under the funding rules, reporting and an audit years after the last invoice. An EU-funded project manager runs that second project for companies, research groups and public bodies in Greece and Cyprus, so the grant is kept. The typical cases:

An ESPA or Recovery Facility project with a deadline written into the funding decision
A Horizon or EIC consortium whose partners answer to nobody
A claim that came back with costs ruled ineligible
An audit years later, and a file nobody can find

The EU-funded project managers on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals from consultancies, research organisations and development agencies, and former officers of managing authorities who know how a file is read on the other side.

What does an EU-funded project manager actually do?

Set up the project to the funding decision: work packages, deliverables and budget lines
Keep every claimed cost eligible, documented and matched to a budget line
Procure under the funding rules, with the audit trail kept as the work runs
Report to the managing authority or the Commission on time, numbers reconciled
Hold consortium partners to their deliverables and dates
Handle amendments and extensions when the project moves away from the plan

How to choose the right EU-funded project manager

What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.

Has closed a final claim
Has taken a funded project through the final payment claim and the audit that followed, not only the kick-off.
Checks eligibility before spending
Asks whether a cost, a hire or a change is eligible before anyone commits to it, and can cite the rule.
Knows your program's rulebook
Has worked under the rules of your program, since ESPA, the Recovery Facility, Horizon and Interreg each read a file differently.