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From defining the idea to managing the project

The Company

MarkMar identifies possible sources of research funding, and provides expertise to help partners to prepare and manage their collaborative research proposals and projects in the European Commission’s Framework Programmes, now Horizon Europe, LIFE etc., as well as in the Nordic and Icelandic RTD support programmes.

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MarkMar conducts dedicated training courses for supporting participation in EC funding programmes. These can be offered as special in house courses or by hosting open training workshops. The course content focuses on the following topics:

Proposal concept development and writing of the proposal,
Contract negotiations
Research project management, including report writing and financial issues
Consortium agreements, and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR),
Financial issues in EC funded contracts and general proposal follow up in Management Reports and audit Certificates.

MarkMar has hosted in collaboration with the Icelandic Centre for Research (RANNIS) several coures on funding opportunities in the previous EC framework programmes. For Horizon 2020 new courses have been developed for clients interested in writing successful proposals meeting the H2020 challenges. More details regarding H2020 can be found through the link to the Research Participants Portal.

Proposal preparation and consortium building should start as soon as possible after identifying topics of interest. For SMEs opportunity exists to deliver a single participant’s proposal and a rapid process is provided by the facilitation of the Executive Agency for SMEs (EASME).

Proposals are highly competitive and your proposal needs to surpass the opposition if you want it to be successful and obtain funding. MarkMar has extensive expertise to assist with your proposal
We assist and advise you on proposal conception, structure and the road map towards project preparation and submission. We support you in the project preparation, including the construction of the project consortium, practical help in proposal writing and preparation of the administrative elements of the project, including the financial budget. We fine-tune your project towards the research policies behind the call addressed.

The active project management service provided by MarkMar as a project partner or a third party contractor to the coordinator will provide:

Integrated as managing partner in your consortium, MarkMar takes the burden of project bureau administration, and are on your side, from the initial negotiations with the EU Commission to the last scientific report and financial audit.
Support you in dissemination and knowledge management towards a successful transfer of science to market.
Compilation of all periodic and final reports for the Commission.
Liaise with the EC project officers on all additional consortium requirements.
Financial and administrative tasks management.

Successful project management requires frequent contact with partners to facilitate the progress of the project according to the work plans, and to ensure that all work is done to the highest standard. MarkMar will actively encourage the development of relationships between partners to ensure successful conclusion of every project.

For further information do not hesitate to contact us.

Expertise

MarkMar has access to extensive international network of expertise, and in particular in house know-how about the European Research Framework Programmes.

The available expertise ranges from basic research to applied product developments, as well as dissemination, exploitation and marketing of research project results.

The Senior partner in MarkMar and the CEO, Sigurður Bogason has a PhD in Food Science and Technology from Oregon State University (1984), USA. He obtained a BSc In Food Science from the University of Iceland in 1980.

He worked as a Scientific Officer for the European Commission from 2000 to 2004, and gained extensive knowledge of the European Framework Research Programmes, and the EC institutions.

MarkMar supports clients to secure EU funding

MarkMar ehf has serviced many organisations in their applications for European funding, and below is a selected list of satisfied clients:

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News

SmartChain Project Launch

December 15, 2021

SINTEF Ocean will co-ordinate the SmartChain project and the partners are Seagarden AS in Norway, Technical University of Denmark, Beia Consult International in Romania, University of Iceland, Brim and MarkMar in Iceland. The project launched in October 2021 and will be run until

VALUMICS H2020

July 15, 2017

MarkMar Work Package Leader for Dissemination and Communication in VALUMICS H2020 under GA 727234. VALUMICS stands for value chain dynamics and is a research project funded by the EU H2020 programme. VALUMICS

New H2020 Projects

January 11, 2016

MarkMar leads the proposal writing and managing the consortium drive to secure a large H2020 grant for geothermal research. EU fund of 20M€ secured for deep drilling research and development.