I have been looking very much forward to release this weeks episode. Universities and their project support departments are heavy users of the EU R&D funding programmes. Therefore it has been an ambition since I started this podcast last summer to get representatives from a university project support office into the studio to share with you all how they work and support their research teams.

As regulars will know I already had Massimo Busuoli from the NTNU Brussels Office in the studio last year. That spinned off a contact to their project support unit back home in Norway and today’s release is a panel episode with three leading employees from that office – Hilde Røysland, Patrick Reunick and Håvard Wibe – all three with the title of Senior Advisor.

In this episode you will get an in-depth insight into how one of the strongest technical universities in collecting EU funding in Europe they organize themselves to support their researchers. First of all they give an overview of the funding strategy including policy and lobby elements. Second, we dig into how they have practically organized themselves and the practical approach to the funding support. Finally, they share their key research areas and give practical project examples as a result of their approach.

You can’t get this kind of information anywhere else than on The Grant. Pure gold for research managers across the continent.

Time codes:

00:06:53 Introduction to NTNU

00:09:22 Overall EU funding strategy

00:33:42 Organisation and practical approach

01:09:03 Key research tracks and concrete projects

01:17:41 The toughest challenge