Europa Media is an independent, non-profit organisation based in Budapest, Hungary. Our mission is to provide the public and other stakeholders with clear and structured information on the complex funding system of the European Union and the available funding opportunities under the different EU programmes and funding schemes.
Since its establishment in 2003, Europa Media has strived to provide and present dispersed and highly technical information on EU policies, funding opportunities and programmes in a streamlined and simplified way to potential stakeholders in Europe and worldwide. To this aim, we have organised training courses, developed informative web-based platforms including e-Learning courses, and produced and disseminated a variety of on and offline publications.
Over the past eight years, Europa Media has developed a comprehensive portfolio of training programmes designed to facilitate access to EU funding and simplify EU project management. To date, we have organized more than 100 training courses attended by over 5,000 participants from all over Europe and beyond. Our training courses vary in their level of difficulty, length and theme, but there is one common feature:
Our courses are always based 100% on experience.
Our multidisciplinary team of experts has several years of practical experience on EC project development and implementation. We have been involved in over 50 EU-funded projects over the past decade as coordinator or partners. For this reason, our courses are highly practical and interactive, spending less time lecturing and more time facilitating workshops and group discussions on real-life cases.
The training courses are conducted by experts and project managers not only from Europa Media, but also by former EC Project Officers, current evaluators and reviewers from Brussels and various national institutions. The result of this combination of expert knowledge and practical experience is a unique learning environment, which will greatly prepare participants for getting successfully involved in EC projects.
Whether you are based in Budapest or Buenos Aires, Sydney or St. Petersburg, we are at your disposal.
Experience you can trust.
OUR TEAM
Mr. Gábor Kitley is co-founder and Managing Director of Europa Media. Mr. Kitley graduated from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, as a geologist with a second master degree in Environmental Law. He has managed and coordinated projects under FP6, FP7, IEE, LIFE III and LLP programmes. His project expertise is in the financial aspect of the project life-cycle. He is also a trainer, expert on the financial issues and the quality assurance aspects of EC funded projects and an evaluator of the FP7 Programme. His experiences cover the following fields: financial and technical project management, regional development, waste-water treatment and management, waste recycling, GIS, decision-support systems, sustainable tourism, CSO capacity building, etc.
Ms. Gabriella Lovasz is the Assistant Managing Director of Europa Media. Her experience includes project management of FP7, FP6, eContentplus, Lifelong Learning Programme, and Culture 2007 projects. Additionally, she has been an evaluator for the CIP EIP programme, the FP7 Programme and an appraisal and monitoring agent of European Economic Area and Norwegian Financial Mechanism Grants. She holds a Masters of Science degree in Economics, having specialized in management consulting and European business. Her main area of focus is upon SMEs and IT.
Ms. Bodil Palmberg is an economist working as a project manager at Europa Media. She holds a Master’s degree in European Politics from the University of Rennes, France, specialising in EU funding schemes and project management. Her main work responsibilities include project implementation, proposal development, EU policy analysis and monitoring the EU financial opportunities. In addition to her project management responsibilities she is a primary lecturer at international trainings organised by Europa Media. www.2007-2013.eu
Mr. Ömer Ceylan is Director of Operations at Geonardo Environmental Technologies Ltd. He has extensive hands-on experience in developing and implementing EU-funded projects and managing EC contracts. He has a thorough knowledge of the European Union’s funding system and a sound understanding of the programming and implementation of various EU funding schemes and progarammes and their interrelations. In particular, his knowledge spans across the EU’s environment, sustainable development, energy, competitiveness, research, technological development and innovation (RTDI), enlargement and neighbourhood policies and the associated funding schemes and programmes such as the Framework Programmes, CIP, LIFE+, Structural Funds, EuropeAid, IPA and ENPI. Mr. Ceylan is an environmental engineer from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and holds an MSc in Environmental Management from Aalborg University (AAU). In addition to his mother tongue Turkish, he speaks English fluently, and has basic knowledge of French, Hungarian and Danish. www.geonardo.com
GUEST LECTURERS
Mr. Stefano Carosio area of interest is Innovation and Research Management. He started his career in 1996 within the framework of the European Space Agency Technology Transfer Programme, where he still today the responsible for the Italian operations, identifying market needs and promising technologies to address them. Since 1997 he started his experience within the EC FP projects, getting approved his first CRAFT proposal under FP4. Since than he has been involved in more than 100 FP projects (proposal approval rate around 70-80%), having developed an extensive experience in project management of small and large scale collaborative projects as well as a large network of contacts including high tech SMEs, large corporates and Research Centres. Because of this experience his team has been granted since 2007 an exclusive agreement with Italy’s major bank Banca Intesa Sanpaolo in technically supporting their clients in preparing proposals and managing projects under FP7.
Mr. Joe Gorman has been involved since 1989 in numerous Commission-funded RTD projects in all possible different roles: as a technical project participant, WP leader, project Coordinator, evaluator of project proposals, independent reviewer of running projects, consultant to assist the Commission during contract negotiation, and official Commission Project Officer. Mr. Gorman is currently working as a Senior Scientist in the field of Software Engineering at SINTEF, Norway.
Ms. Luba Pavlovova is working in the areas of HRD in the context of Lifelong learning, social affairs and regional development. Since 1997 she is directly involved in the VET affairs. Ms Pavlovova has extensive experience of the EU-funded programmes and projects especially in relation to LLP/LdV programme. She is recognized an international trainer and consultant and has been working in several countries in the areas of VET, HRD, employment and OSH issues, e.g. Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Azerbaijan, Macedonia, Albania, etc. She has been involved in more than 60 national and international projects as project manager, evaluator and trainer including setting up the systems for monitoring and quality assurance. Since 1999 she has been acting as independent assessor of VET projects for the EC.
 Ms. Tanja Schöpke studied law in Berlin and Bordeaux (France) and she obtained her Master of Business Administration (MBA) from TiasNimbas Business School in Utrecht, Netherlands. Ms. Schöpke has been working as legal counsel for Fraunhofer headquarters in Munich since August 2003 where she is responsible for the legal administration of national and international funded research projects with expertise in IPR issues in EU funding programmes. She has joined the DESCA group for the development of a FP7 model consortium agreement during its start-up phase and has been the group’s co-coordinator since May 2008. In 2009, Tanja was part of an expert group on Knowledge Transfer for the European Commission and has submitted an expert paper regarding options for an European-wide model agreement for contract and collaborative research.
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