Our vision · Europe
EU-funded projects carry Europe’s ambition. We built Convenor to help them deliver it.
Training border officials in Moldova, judicial reform in the Western Balkans, a humanitarian response in the Sahel: each starts with the results in its logframe. Europe delivers when its projects do.
Why it matters
A small team behind every project.
Thousands of EU-funded projects are running across Europe and beyond, and behind each one is a small team: a coordinator, a finance officer, an M&E officer, a pool of experts. They run the activities, manage the budget, keep the evidence and write the reports. They turn policy into results. They deserve tools made for the job.
What gets in the way
We know where the time goes.
We ran these projects ourselves. The ToR in Word, the budget in Excel, the activity plan in a shared drive, the evidence in email threads, the contacts in someone’s inbox. Every report starts with a hunt for proof, and when a colleague leaves, what they knew leaves too.
We believe it does not need to be like this, so teams can focus on what really matters.
What we believe
Six articles we build by.
- Article I: The work happens between peopleProjects succeed in workshops, missions and steering committees. Technology should support those moments, not take people away from them.
- Article II: Memory belongs to the projectWhat was agreed, learned or decided should stay when people rotate out, so the next team builds on it.
- Article III: Tools should fit the workLogframes, ToRs, key experts, per diems, interim reports and audits. We build for that logic, as people who worked inside it.
- Article IV: Accountability should cost less than the workEvidence and reporting matter because public money is spent. They should come from the record, not from weeks of reconstruction.
- Article V: Impact should be visible, and steerableResults in view from the first activity, not only at the final report, so the team can steer towards its targets.
- Article VI: Trust comes firstProjects handle the personal data of participants, partners and officials. It stays in Europe, with the organisation that owns it, and is shared only on purpose.
What success looks like
Measured by the projects we serve.
Time spent on the project, not on retyping. Reports that start from what happened. Audits without surprises. Knowledge that outlives a contract. And projects that can show the impact they set out to make.
Where we are going
From the project to the funder, in one line.
- NowEU-funded projectsGrants and service contracts, across Europe and its partner countries: where the tools fit the job least.
- NextLarger partnershipsConsortia with many partners, work packages, milestones and person-months, such as Horizon Europe.
- AheadOne line from the project to the CommissionOur aim: results, reports and evidence that flow from Convenor into OPSYS and the Funding & Tenders Portal without being typed in twice, so contract managers see the same figures as the team.
Signed, the Convenor team · Europe
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