CIVITTA SLOVAKIA, AS

Their core work

CIVITTA Slovakia is a management and innovation consultancy that provides event organization, policy facilitation, and science communication services at the European level. Their H2020 work includes co-organizing high-profile conferences and exhibitions tied to Slovakia's 2016 EU Council Presidency, and contributing to a pan-European science engagement campaign spanning science cafés, museum events, and open science outreach. They operate exclusively within Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) — meaning their value lies in process, coordination, and communication rather than laboratory or technical research. For potential partners, they bring a well-developed European network, experience in EU institutional processes, and the ability to mobilize public or professional audiences around research and industrial policy topics.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both projects started in 2015, so temporal evolution within H2020 is limited — but the contrast between the two projects reveals a meaningful difference in focus. SPARKS pointed toward grassroots science-society communication: exhibitions, science cafés, public dialogue about technology and health. REinEU2016 pointed toward institutional policy work: EU presidency events, manufacturing competitiveness, and industrial strategy under the NMBP framework. The trajectory suggests CIVITTA operates across both registers — public engagement and high-level policy — rather than deepening into one technical domain over time.

CIVITTA appears oriented toward EU institutional and policy-level work, making them most useful as a partner when a consortium needs to organize high-visibility events, connect with policymakers, or communicate research results to non-specialist audiences.

How they like to work

CIVITTA has never coordinated an H2020 project, always joining as a participant within large multi-partner consortia. Despite only two projects, they accumulated 34 unique partners across 29 countries — a footprint typical of broad CSA consortia where each partner contributes a national or thematic slice. This suggests they are effective at operating within large, decentralized project structures where their contribution is well-defined and bounded.

Despite only two projects, CIVITTA reached 34 unique consortium partners across 29 countries — an unusually wide European footprint for an organization of this size. This reflects the pan-European design of both CSA projects rather than deep bilateral relationships, but it does indicate comfort operating in large, multi-national collaborative settings.

What sets them apart

CIVITTA Slovakia sits at an uncommon intersection: a Central European SME consultancy with hands-on experience in both EU presidency-level policy events and grassroots science communication campaigns. Most organizations specialize in one or the other — technical research, or dissemination support — but CIVITTA has demonstrated capacity to serve both ends. For consortium builders targeting Central and Eastern Europe, they offer a credible local presence combined with a wide European network built through CSA project participation.

Highlights from their portfolio

• REinEU2016
  The largest-funded project (EUR 262,815) and the most institutionally significant — directly tied to Slovakia's 2016 EU Council Presidency, involving manufacturing policy conferences and NMBP program events at the highest EU level.
• SPARKS
  A multi-year (2015–2018) pan-European public engagement project with an unusually broad thematic scope, covering technology shifts in health, frugal innovation, and open science across Science Centres and Science Shops in many countries.