Singleimage is the leading international provider of practical training for the European Union’s Research Framework Programme (FP7).

Our workshops:

• present clear, useful information, and avoid the myths and complexity that too often surround the Programme

• provide a real learning experience through exercises and feedback sessions, not just a day full of lectures

• and are built on a solid foundation of experience and expertise, allowing in-depth discussion as necessary.


The workshops are aimed at research managers and administrators, project managers and contracts officers who have to deal with the practicalities of FP7, not the politics. Our customers have research interests ranging from agronomy to zoology, from nanotechnology to nuclear engineering. They are universities and institutes, multi-national companies and start-ups, and agencies who promote participation in FP7. And they come from every European country, so you can learn in an international environment.

The workshops are held almost every month in Cambridge, and intermittently in Brussels, Belgium, as well as by invitation at many other locations across Europe. You can choose an event from the schedule, or contact us to arrange a workshop at your location. All our workshops are given in English.

Once you have attended one of our workshops we do not abandon you! We provide an after-care service. So, for example, if you can't quite remember how an EC ruling applies to your project, send us an email. You will also receive a copy of our In-Touch with FP7 monthly publication.

Workshop Presenter - Paul Drath

Our workshop presenter, Paul Drath, has 21 years experience in EU research, as an expert evaluator and reviewer, and participant in more than ten projects, including three as coordinator. He has been supporting proposers to the Framework Programme with training and advice since 1996.

Paul has lectured on EU research to audiences from every EU Member State and Associated country, from Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. He is frequently invited to speak at events relating to EU research funding organised by FP7 National Contact Points, associations and foundations, as well as individual universities and institutes.

Our main services are:

• Workshops for proposers, administrators and managers. These cover proposal preparation, consortium agreements, finance and project management for EU collaborative research projects.

• Advice: Singleimage provides advice to organisations preparing proposals for FP7 collaborative research projects, negotiating agreements with the EC, or trying to understand which consortium agreement terms best meet their needs.
  

• Partner search for the Information Communication Technologies programme (ICT), the largest of the EU's research programmes, as the UK member of the Ideal-ist network. The Ideal-ist network is co-financed by the European Commission and has 49 national representatives in all the Member States, Candidate Countries and Associated States, as well as the Western Balkan Countries, Newly Independent States and Mediterranean Countries.