INTELLIGENTSIA CONSULTANTS SARL

Their core work

Intelligentsia Consultants is a Luxembourg-based innovation consultancy specializing in EU research project management, dissemination, and capacity building. They help research institutions and companies navigate Horizon 2020/Europe funding — managing communication, exploitation of results, and twinning activities rather than conducting technical research themselves. Their role across projects spanning OLED materials, advanced manufacturing, scintillators, and IoT security confirms they are sector-agnostic project support specialists, not domain researchers. They also coordinate strategic support actions that connect underrepresented regions and countries to EU research programmes.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In 2015-2018, Intelligentsia focused heavily on twinning projects (UMi-TWINN, AMaTUC, HOLO, ASCIMAT) that built scientific capacity at Eastern European universities, alongside early OLED research coordination (PHEBE). From 2019 onward, they shifted toward larger coordination roles — their biggest project FIT-4-NMP (EUR 323K, coordinator) targets Horizon Europe onboarding for underrepresented regions, while they expanded into IoT security (SIFIS-HOME) and advanced materials (MaNaCa, DiCoMI). The trajectory shows a consultancy moving from supporting individual twinning actions to positioning itself as a gateway for newcomers entering EU research programmes.

Moving toward becoming a go-to partner for organizations new to Horizon Europe, especially from widening countries — expect them to coordinate more CSA-type onboarding projects.

How they like to work

Predominantly a participant (11 of 14 projects) that joins established consortia to handle project management, dissemination, and communication tasks. With 98 unique partners across 32 countries, they operate as a high-connectivity hub — rarely working with the same partners twice, which makes them valuable for consortium builders who need a reliable management partner with broad European contacts. When they do coordinate (3 projects), it is always Coordination and Support Actions, not research-intensive projects.

Exceptionally broad network of 98 partners across 32 countries — one of the widest geographic footprints for an SME of this size. Strong connections to Eastern European and widening-country institutions through their twinning portfolio.

What sets them apart

Their value is not in technical expertise but in making EU projects run smoothly — dissemination, communication, exploitation planning, and helping less experienced partners navigate programme requirements. Based in Luxembourg but with deep connections to widening countries (Lithuania, Romania, Ukraine), they bridge Western European research networks with institutions that are still building their EU project capacity. For consortium builders, they offer a tested project management partner who already knows how to work across cultural and institutional boundaries.

Highlights from their portfolio

• FIT-4-NMP
  Their largest project (EUR 323K, coordinator) — a strategic support action helping newcomers from underrepresented regions enter Horizon Europe's NMP programme.
• AERO-UA
  Coordinated EU-Ukraine aviation research cooperation, demonstrating ability to manage politically sensitive cross-border scientific diplomacy.
• PHEBE
  Their first coordinator role (EUR 309K) in OLED blue emitter research — unusually technical for a consultancy, suggesting early domain expertise in photonics.