We are looking for a new teammate for our expanding projects and initiatives! Are you an experienced EU project manager? Do you enjoy working in multidisciplinary and international environments? Our ideal candidate is passionate about digital and social innovation, curious, open-minded and keen to explore new challenges. You will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing EU/international R&I projects and studies and contribute to the development of new project’s concepts, building partnerships and supporting clients in their grant application and management process.

Key activities

• Design, develop and implement international R&I projects
• Perform research activities and write grant proposals and reports in the field of digital and social innovation
• Prepare offers for customers and bids for calls for tenders
• Execute project management tasks on time ensuring quality standards are met
• Prepare technical reports for funding authorities in collaboration with the Financial Manager
• Scout funding and collaboration opportunities and coordinate the preparation and submission of proposals
• Coordinate activities and tasks in EU projects ensuring that deliverables and milestones are completed on time and in line with quality requirements and budget constraints
• Participate proactively in project consortium meetings either virtually or physically
• Coordinate the organization of project meetings and events
• Present information on project progress and outcomes
• Prepare accurate presentations, infographics, and visual summaries
• Foster dissemination and uptake of projects’ results on digital media and in events.

Skills and competencies

• Social sciences and humanities (SSH), life sciences or ICT degree
• Knowledge and experience of EU funding programmes and European R&I, ICT and health and care policies and initiatives
• At least 4 years working in collaborative and multidisciplinary projects and initiatives related to health and social policies, digital health and social innovation or digital transformation of public services
• Excellent writing skills and capacity to carry out studies and research tasks with a high degree of autonomy
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the design, planning and implementation of exploitation activities, business modelling and innovation management with a specific focus on innovative health and wellbeing solutions, products and services
• Demonstrated knowledge in scientific communication and dissemination of project’s results
• Mastery of techniques and tools for stakeholder engagement, participation and co-creation processes
• Languages: fluent English is mandatory, Spanish and/or Italian preferred
• Excellent organisation, accuracy, and time management
• Negotiation, communication and conflict resolution skills
• Flexibility, proactivity and curiosity in undertaking new tasks
• Desirable: knowledgeable social media expert and user

Conditions

• Flexible contractual arrangements depending on the profile.
• We have offices at the Barcelona Health Hub headquarters inside the amazing Recinte Modernista, Barcelona.
• Travels: this position involves traveling nationally and internationally throughout Europe to networking events and consortium meetings.
• Salary commensurate to profile and experience.
• Starting date: September 2023.

As we are fully active during the final year of the STEP_UP  project, there are more and more news regarding our own project activities.

STEP_UP is a European Erasmus+ project that started in December 2020 and will last until the end of February 2023.it intends to develop a training tool for social care and community stakeholders, where they are introduced to the impact of behaviours in the spread of a pandemic/emergency situation and trained, through gaming strategies, to prevent and cope.

Take a look at the recently published 2nd Newsletter to learn more about our WISE contribution! Whether being hosted for an interview, writing on the Spanish long-term COVID strategy or contributing even more to the Game and Training Manual development, there is plenty to check out!

 

 

Most importantly, we have had the greatest pleasure to host our partners of the project in Barcelona for the 4th edition of the Transnational Project Meeting! On June 27-28, representatives from the other 4 countries in the project (SHINE from PT, ISIS from DE, AFEdemy from NL and CIPH from Croatia) were hosted at our new premises of the Barcelona Health Hub (BHB). A very productive meeting was accompanied by even more pleasurable networking time together, between a cultural visit of the Art Noveau Site at the Sant Pau Hospital and a traditional Spanish Tapas Dinner.

 

In the next couple of months, we will also have the pleasure to host the project-related “Short term Joint Staff Training” in order to prepare the personnel from partner organisations to take the most out of our project outputs and employ them in multiplier dissemination events as to inform stakeholders about our own creative work!

Stay tuned for future updates!

The WISE Team

 

 

The overall goal of the STEP_UP project is to create an interactive training tool to identify possible responses to pandemic outbreaks and to assess their impact on society and the spread of disease. STEP_UP means “Stop Epidemic Growth Through Learning“.

As part of our activities, the STEP_UP Consortium (including Wise Angle) has been assembling 5 Thematic Reports containing measures for different sectors directly involved in management and prevention of the Coronavirus Pandemic. The ultimate goal is to use such materials to produce a comprehensive Policy Manual of Social and Healthcare for practitioners and stakeholders.

Thus, the aim of this STEP_UP e-survey is to learn more from your experiences on working with the Coronavirus outbreak and the measures that were taken or recommended to contain the spread of the virus and the consequences of isolation.

The collected data will only be used for scientific purposes and the participation in the survey is voluntary.

Remember that:

• The questionnaire will take about 10-15 minutes to complete.
• You will remain anonymous throughout the process
• The main language of the survey is English, but translation can be given upon request
• It is directed at all professional categories affected by the project (i.e. municipality official, social caregivers, health personnel and administration) but can also be filled by volunteers and citizens

 

Link to the Survey 

 

Remember that you can find out more about the STEP_UP project by using the following link: https://stepupgame.eu/

 

On November 10th, 2021 a joint partnership led by Wise Angle in collaboration with SHINE 2Europe  and the International Network for SMEs (INSME) has been adjudicated the contract: “Crisis Costs for European SMEs – How COVID-19 changed the playing field for European SMEs“.

Study Subject 

The study aims to make a status quo assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on SMEs with a view to understand how the economic framework and playing field for SMEs changed due to the pandemic and what perspectives SMEs have for the future. An in-depth analysis of selected SME sectors, also taking into account employment consequences, will show the different needs of the sectors and how they can be supported in the years to come. Based on this analysis, a strategic plan of economic and public policy measures to support SMEs will be defined.

Our Contribution 

Our partnership has elaborated a detailed proposal including an original framework for the theoretical study and an intense fieldwork including both in-depth, semi-structured interviews with experts and real-life testimonial SMEs relaying their personal experience on pandemic management (Check here for more information).

The consolidated partnership of Wise Angle and SHINE 2Europe has now been enriched by a fruitful collaboration with the International Network for Small and Medium Enterprises (INSME), a legally recognized not-for-profit association working under the auspices of the OECD. Counting on 64 Members from 34 different countries, the Network is a facilitator for the creation of public-private partnership, a gateway to innovation good practices for the support of SMEs and entrepreneurship and a catalyst of information on opportunities, latest trends and insights on innovation, SMEs, technology transfer and entrepreneurship.

Both their assistance and the EESC collaboration will be fundamental to get in touch with top-rank experts and to being able to provide a first set of exploratory patterns on different SMEs performances throughout the pandemic. At the end of our exploration, we also aim at the development of a comprehensive list of public policy recommendation supporting future policies and instruments for European SMEs.

Study Inauguration 

The Kick-Off Meeting with the Contracting Authority was officially celebrated on November 25th, 2021. Our research team presented the study and answered questions on a first round of feedback from members of the EESC Reflection Groups on SMEs (ascribed to the Employer’s Group).

 

 

     

 

While we complete our first round of feedback, the theoretical study and the preparatory ground for the fieldwork are well under way. We are excited to take advantage of this funding opportunity and continue developing knowledge at the service of European small and medium businesses.

 

The WISE team

 

 

 

The first newsletter of the STEP_UP Project (“Stop Epidemic Growth Through Learning“) of which we are active partners is now online!

Follow up on our educational game development and on the production of useful measures & policy guides meant to help a wide variety of stakeholders in preventing and controlling epidemics.

You can check it up by clicking on the banner above or at this link. 

Don’t forget you can also learn much more about the project on the dedicated website!

 

The WISE team

 

On October 16, 2021 our CEO Valentina Tageo was officially invited as speaker in the “Trieste Citizen Accelerator AAL 2021-Healthy & Happy over 65” talks held as part of the European Week of Active & Healthy Ageing (2021).

You can catch up on the even by following the corresponding Twitter Feed.

 

 

The WISE Team

These are exciting times for us!  An expansion process and a set of new initiatives are filling our days at  Wise Angle Consulting S.L.

After a long time of pandemic lockdowns and hugely amounts of remote working from home, Wise Angle has officially inaugurated on September 1st its new operational headquarters at Talent Garden Barcelona!

       

We have also had an opportunity to present ourselves at the latest community event, the TAG Breakfast, on September 23rd, 2021!

   

 

At the same time, the team has given its warmest welcome to a new member of the WISE family!

Francesco Camonita (Ph.D. in Geography and European Studies) has joined the company as Researcher Specialist in EU Affairs and European Project Manager at the beginning of September!

After 9+ years as researcher, lecturer and research support specialist at university (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona Center for European Studies), he is ready to lend us his expertise in EU integration (governance and public policies) for our study contracts as well as developing multiple project management tasks in our consulting work.

And we also extended our own roster of experts and collaborators! As Wise Angle expands its expertise in the field of Climate Change & Sustainability, Sofia Rossi & Corrado Paternò have also joined our team of researchers as of October 2021.

As Autumn rolls over, WISE is fully involved in the presentation of new EU project proposals (Heads up for the highly expected 21/10 deadline in HEU) and some interesting offers for new studies to be carried out for EU institutions.

We will keep you posted on the next company’s developments as we stroll through Autumn and await the next responses!

 

The WISE Team