Advice & Support

Consultancy in the Development Process
Are you engaged in the cultural sector, in the artistic world, in the educational or social realm? 
Are you a public institution, or an NGO or do you operate as a freelancer?
Would you like to cooperate internationally or improve your collaboration?
Would you like to enrich your core business with additional projects?
Would you like to develop your interdisciplinary approach?
Are you keen to emphasize participatory processes and the empowerment of your employees or associates?
Do you require additional funding for your international projects?
Are you persuaded that projects are worthwhile only if they are sustainable and create long-term impact?
Are you searching for professional support for quality management and (self-) evaluation or international network management?
From Early Ideas towards a strong Project Concept
We understand funding support for projects as a boost to longer term self-sustained development rather than just for it’s own short term sake.
We help you to channel your ideas and creativity into realizable project concepts that are aligned with the policies and requirements of particular funding bodies.
We are familiar with the high standards that are necessary for targeted and cycle-oriented project planning such as logical frameworks.
We help you to shape, right from the outset, strategies towards sustaining and upscaling your results.
We support you in finding the right partners, and in establishing the networks to best safeguard your success.
For the last 20 years SH|RN Consultancy has initiated, implemented, managed and evaluated numerous projects on an international level.
From Concept Stage to fully-fledged Application
We help you browse the funding landscape of the EU and other national or international programmes in order to find and secure funding opportunities.
We assist you during the application process with regard to the envisaged objectives and activities, as well as with the planning of sustainability and budget issues.
We examine the relevance and the consistency of the project in relation to the criterion and requirements of the funding programs.
Realizing the deliverables of a project in terms of their matching funding lines requires particular expertise.
If required, we can take over the lead management of your application, while you can concentrate on what is important – your creativity, content and ideas.
SH|RN Consultancy is familiar with many EU programs, their relevant architecture, procedures, standards, and difficulties.
Process Facilitation &
Quality Assurance
The better the quality of the project, the better its prospects. So what is key here is Quality Development and Quality Assurance.
We develop participatory criteria for »good practice« together with you and your staff to be applied to the process and results of the project.
We familiarize you with basic methods of self-evaluation, so that you can independently identify and assure quality, and easily report back to partners, funders or donors.
Quality of processes and products spring not only from a project’s »inner values«, but also from these values being integral to the process whereby the project is realized, and recognized by its stakeholders, its users and the wider community.
Projects must be practical; and they must be better, more useful and even more efficient than the existing structures they relate to.
SH|RN Consultancy is able to support you towards developing a feasible project of the highest quality with reliable outcomes based on our expert advice, seasoned experience, appropriate methodologies and processes.