Freelance EU Project Manager · From kick-off to final report
I help research teams, research infrastructures and start-ups run their EU-funded projects, so your scientists can focus on the science.
The challenge
Once the grant agreement is signed, the real work starts: partners in different countries, deliverables and milestones, periodic reports, budget rules, and a Project Officer who expects all of it on time. Scientists and founders are experts in their field, not in EU project administration, and they shouldn't have to be.
When nobody owns this work, you see it quickly:
Deliverables slip and milestones are missed.
Partners work in different directions, and decisions stall.
Every reporting period becomes a last-minute scramble, and in the worst case part of the grant is at risk.
That's where I come in.
How I help
For projects that are just starting.
For projects already underway.
Alongside project management, I can set up a tracking and reporting tool tailored to your project: your deliverables, milestones and partners, in your own branding.
For teams preparing an EU funding application.
How I work
Flexible engagements: from 5 days to several months, part-time alongside your team, remote or hybrid from Berlin.
Structure without bureaucracy: I'm a Certified Scrum Master and connect agile teams with EC milestone reporting. I work with Asana or with the tools your team already uses.
Selected projects
Projects I contributed to · as Scientific Project Manager at EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC, 2022–2025
European collaboration on developing and validating organ-on-chip devices as an alternative to animal testing.
My role: proposal co-author (lead role), Work Package Leader (Validation), Project Manager.
Pan-European pandemic response: research infrastructures coordinate research to prevent and treat infectious diseases.
My role: Work Package Leader, Project Manager.
Funded access for oncology researchers to the installations of 11 European research infrastructures.
My role: proposal co-author, Work Package Leader, Project Manager.
European Open Science Cloud infrastructure for FAIR cancer research data.
My role: proposal co-author, Project Manager.
Turning the emergency-driven ISIDORe initiative into a sustainable European capacity for preparedness research.
My role: proposal co-author (lead role).
Funded access for agricultural researchers to the installations of 11 European research infrastructures.
My role: proposal co-author.
Integrating marine research infrastructures to speed up the discovery of bioactive compounds from marine organisms.
My role: proposal co-author.
New instruments, workflows and methods for fragment-based drug discovery.
My role: proposal co-author.
About me
I'm a scientist turned project manager. After my PhD in Biology at Freie Universität Berlin (on neuronal connectivity and brain development), I spent three years as Scientific Project Manager at EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC. There I managed EU-funded projects with large international consortia, led work packages, prepared technical and financial reports, and presented results to Project Officers in Brussels.
Today I work as an independent consultant through Wit Science Consulting, supporting teams with EU project management and proposals.
I also develop custom digital tools that make project work simpler.
Tools
Turn the due months of your deliverables (M6, M18, M36…) into real calendar dates. Paste the deliverables table from your Grant Agreement, enter the project start date, and get a clear table you can copy into Excel or Word.
Your data stays on your computer: the tool works entirely in your browser. Nothing you paste is sent or stored.
Free guide
AI can save you time on a proposal, but used the wrong way it can harm your credibility with evaluators. This short guide shows, step by step, where AI is useful and where your own judgement has to take over.
Contact
Tell me briefly about your project, and I'll get back to you within two working days.
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