Novation Europe.
Helping
you
Novation Europe provides help across the life cycle where you need it most, delivered by practitioners you recognise and can trust.
We support you through focused interventions on a critical tasks or through long-term engagements that grow your participation, capacity and resilience.
We bring a full-cycle perspective to every task; for example, ensuring that decisions made during the bid don’t create avoidable problems for you during project delivery or audits. This approach de-risks the entire process, making your experience positive, rewarding, and repeatable.
Embedding EU R&I in your strategy
We help you move from a reactive approach to a proactive strategy, transforming your European engagement and participation
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We help you embed EU funding within your institutional and corporate strategy, guiding organisations to identify the right opportunities, connect with the right networks, anticipate policy developments, and prepare and influence for future frameworks such as FP10.
This includes discreet counsel for senior leaders navigating complex decisions or engaging with Brussels.
Training and development
We help you empower your teams and people with the capability, confidence, and mindset to navigate Horizon, from Brussels to the bids and projects.
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We help strengthen the people and use of internal systems behind the bids and projects so organisations build lasting capability, not dependency.
We provide tailored programmes and toolkits for senior leaders, professionals and scientists including those groups of individuals and organisations who are underrepresented in EU funding, and who are new to European R&I, or who need to embed EU funding into their organisation’s strategy, delivery and mindset.
On-demand capacity & expert counsel
We bring you readily available expert help, that knows your organisational settings, when your teams are stretched or have a gap in know-how.
We are also trusted guide when you face the most complex of questions or challenges.
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We provide flexible, on-demand expertise ad know-how to provide relief and ease pressure.
You can call on us when teams do not have the expertise or to ease pressure are busy or missing key staff at bidding stage and delivery.
For the challenges that have no manual – the complex grey areas and strategic dilemmas where lived experience matters – we also provide clear, decisive guidance. This specialist support saves your team critical time, reduces risk, and gives them the confidence to act.
Partnership brokering and network access
Helping you connect with the right partners to grow your participation and build trusted and successful partnerships and projects.
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We facilitate and help broker the crucial connections that underpin successful partnerships and projects.
We help identify strategic and delivery partners, broker introductions, and open doors within the global, European, and UK R&I ecosystem, including Brussels – a task many find difficult to start or navigate alone.
Bid development
The hands-on support you need to turn your ideas into a high-quality, winning proposal.
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We provide hands-on support to turn ideas into high-quality proposals – whether leading bids or participating as partners.
We provide targeted help for newcomers unfamiliar with the process, and relief for experienced teams who are overstretched or need tactical support.
Delivery & assurance
We help you navigate the complexities of project delivery, set up in internal systems and portfolio management with confidence.
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Winning the grant is just the start; successful delivery is the real challenge. The lead person can feel isolated, while internal teams—from support offices to functional teams HR and procurement— can find themselves unfamiliar with the specific EU rules. We bridge this critical gap.
We help you prepare for reviews and audits, establish the right systems to manage projects and portfolios effectively, manage claims – de-risking the entire process.
We act as a trusted sounding board, providing the tactical advice needed to engage confidently within a consortium and navigate challenges as they arise.
