Your amazing idea needs funding. We help you get it.
The hardest part of EU funding is getting it. We help shape the idea, match it to the right call, and bring the right partners together. And once the grant is won, we help you keep it: public money carries obligations, and we have the tools and the know-how to keep implementation smooth and compliant.
Each idea has its lifecycle. In which stage are you?
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Data points
What the EU will fund next, read off the record of what it just funded.
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The call
Hundreds are open. Which one is actually yours, and when to commit.
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A proposal that scores
The right consortium, and every section written against the criteria it is judged on.
Proposal system -
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Above the threshold
Seal-of-Excellence quality — the standard that survives a competitive panel.
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Funded
The grant agreement signed, and the consortium agreement aligned behind it.
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Implementation
Running the project from day one — reporting, effort, evidence, and hands where they are needed.
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Results into use
Results in hand, and the separate job of getting them adopted into practice, policy or a market.
Expert team
A funding proposal is only as good as its foundation — the idea matched to the right call, a core consortium that fits, and a clear intervention logic to deliver the results the call expects. A 56% success rate on the applications our experts have led is the proof: around three and a half times the EU average, across Horizon Europe, EDF and national programmes. Proposal writing is what we do best.
Funding intelligence
We built our own read of the EU funding landscape and use it on every engagement. Open calls decoded to their binding conditions. Deadlines clustered, so a year of bidding can be planned. Evaluation statistics call by call — Horizon Europe funds roughly one application in seven, and the record shows where the other six fall short. The funded history of who wins what, and with whom. Your advice comes off that record, current every time you ask.
Consortium modelling
Partner selection built on evidence: published output, funded history, and the shape of the consortia that already won the call. It shortlists; it does not predict. A field of thousands comes down to the handful worth a conversation, each with the reason it made the list.
The proposal system
The document is built on our own software. The call's binding conditions are carried into its structure. Work packages, effort and budget stay in step as the draft moves. There is no two-in-the-morning read-through where the budget suddenly contradicts the workplan, which is where good bids quietly lose their score.
We celebrate wins. We make sure we can celebrate implementation as well.
Open the platform ↗ Talk to us →A grant won and then run badly is a poor advertisement for the people who won it. So we support the years after the award: the platform that runs the project, and the hands to deliver it when a consortium needs them.
Project implementation platform
Everyone celebrates the win. The years that follow are where projects come undone. This is our own software for running a funded project — partners, work packages, deliverables and milestones, effort planning, and the personnel-cost evidence a reporting period will ask for. Clients get it with the engagement, and it runs on its own too, at pm.theplentygroup.eu ↗.
Plenty Nexus
Some consortia have the structure and need the hands. Plenty Nexus is a registered NGO we work alongside, built for EU project delivery, running on the same intelligence and tooling that won the bid. When a consortium wants the shaping and the delivery, they come in together.
A finished project leaves you with results and a short window to act on them. Getting them adopted — into operations, into policy, into a market — is a separate piece of work with its own moves. We are best placed for it when we also shaped the proposal that produced the results.
Into practice
The pilots, the handovers, and the people who have to keep using a result once the funding stops. We help turn a working output into something an organisation runs on — incorporated into operations, a product, or day-to-day practice, with the evidence to justify keeping it.
Uptake and lobby
A finding changes nothing until someone with authority acts on it. We make the case that moves a result into policy, into a standard, or into the next round of funding: the briefings, the meetings, and the framing that turn evidence into a decision someone takes.
Route and rights
The commercial route a result can take — a market, a licence, a spin-out, or a dual-use application where civilian and defence work meet — and the ownership and access position that lets you take it. We help pick the route that fits the result and the organisation, and make sure the rights to deploy it are in your hands.
Proposals are set on the winning trajectory.
A bid's trajectory is set in the first weeks. The wrong call. The wrong consortium. An idea never framed to score against the criteria it will be judged on. By the time drafting starts, most of the outcome is already fixed. That is where we begin.
We take on a few clients at a time, and we carry each one across the whole lifecycle — from the first idea to the commercialisation of the results. A relationship built on trust and the knowledge that accumulates with it.
The right call
Most applications are lost before a word is drafted — on a call that was never a match.
The right consortium
Evaluators read the partner list as evidence the work can actually be done.
The right argument
Written straight at the award criteria. Every section has to earn its points.
Proposal writing
Full proposal writing for competitive EU funding calls: Part B drafting, work package design, consortium positioning and budget construction. We write end to end, from the first framing conversation to the submission-ready draft.
Opportunity identification
Assessing where and when to commit. Funding calls, strategic openings and partnership windows arrive faster than most organisations can track. We help decide which are worth pursuing, judged on fit with where the organisation is going. An open deadline is not a reason on its own.
Strategic advisory
Longer engagements on the decisions that shape an organisation's direction: institutional positioning, capital design, governance, and the dual-use questions where civilian and defence applications meet. Here the client is buying the decision itself, and the work is judged on the decision.
Where our experts are the best.
Sectors
Health & life sciences
Diagnostics, digital health, pharmacy and nutrition.
Energy & climate
Energy systems, storage and the climate transition.
Water & the environment
Water and wastewater, and the blue economy.
Digital & industry
ICT, digital innovation hubs and manufacturing.
Also active in mobility, agrifood, social inclusion, education and the public sector.
Signature strengths
Widening
Twinning, Teaming and Excellence Hubs — the instruments built to raise research capacity across the EU's Widening countries. We know how these calls are read, from the partnership logic that has to convince an evaluator to the long-term institutional commitment and the excellence case underneath.
Business ecosystems
Innovation ecosystems, clusters and the public–private networks a region's competitiveness runs on. We map them, connect the actors, and run the programmes — business exchange, mentoring, acceleration — that turn a scattered landscape into one that works.
Defence & telecommunications
Civil and military defence, and telecommunications — our most recent and fastest-growing practice. European Defence Fund proposals, dual-use technology, and the security work where civilian and defence applications meet.
What we do
We shape the idea, choose the call and build the consortium, then draft the proposal in our own software — written section by section against the criteria it will be scored on, to a standard that clears a Seal of Excellence at the very least. When an organisation needs the wider view, we design its corporate funding strategy — which programmes to pursue, and in what order, across the years ahead.
Winning is celebrated; the years that follow are where most projects quietly struggle. Once the grant is signed, Plenty Nexus comes in as your implementation partner and the project runs on our project implementation platform — coordination and work-packages, deliverables and reporting, and the personnel-cost evidence that survives an audit.
A result only counts once it is used. We work the route to market and the incorporation, run the business modelling through the Four Fits — market, channel, model and scale — and settle IP and access rights before they turn into a problem. Acceleration support comes in when a venture is ready to move.
Plenty Group works with research organisations, public-interest institutions, early-stage ventures, and initiatives that sit between them. What connects them is an idea to solve a real need for a particular part of society.
Tell us where you are.
Prefer email? Write to info@theplentygroup.eu.