EUROPEAN RESEARCH SERVICES GMBH
(ERS)

EUROPEAN RESEARCH SERVICES GmbH

European Research Services GmbH (ERS) is a public-private partnership that supports researchers and institutions/organisations in planning and managing projects funded by EU.

ERS provides technical and administrative support, adapting project-management to the size and complexity of each specific project. ERS helps to implement risk assessment, internal monitoring, and common standard procedures, ensuring outcomes with quality & within time, budget, and EU guidelines.

Main activities and roles in SUNRISE

ERS will contribute to the following work package tasks and activities:

  • Set up a “help desk” for project correspondence and day-to-day requests from partners and external bodies

  • Manage the project structure and processes (“project infrastructure”), including management tools, administrative details, and partner-specific templates for documentation

  • Help in setting up rules for internal communication and in facilitating technical and financial reporting procedures and monitoring project spending and eligibility

  • Be responsible for preparing, executing and post-processing major project meetings such as video/telephone conferences, steering board meetings, full assemblies, and meetings of the Advisory Board

  • Support the technical coordination of periodic reporting and reviews, including the preparation and post-processing of reviews

Meet the ERS team

Oliver Panzer (♂) is Managing Director of ERS. He holds a Diploma in Physics and worked for five years as a postgraduate researcher in the area of nano-analytics. Alongside his experience in industry and in managing the office of a national network of excellence, he spent two and a half years at the European Commission as a Seconded National Expert. In this function he was responsible for the negotiation and monitoring of projects, and for the organisation of proposal evaluations. As a Project Technical Assistant (PTA) and PTA-trainer he supports the European Commission in reviewing current projects, as well as supporting the consortia of these projects in management matters. His background will ensure that the management structure and procedures fully meet the needs of the European Commission, while relieving researchers of the administrative burden of such procedures.

Hildegard Luhmann (♀) works as project manager with ERS. She studied business economics at the University of Applied Science Muenster and has a wide experience of the administration in EU projects under the 6th and 7th Framework Programme, H2020 and Horizon Europe.