LF Consulting aims at providing strategic direction to a number of different entities and their stakeholders within their approach towards Italian and European public institutions. Through the various activities provided, the right approach is to elaborate a detailed plan identifying the relations that are strategic for the client’s specific interest under the legislation, and funding standpoints. LF Consultancy has the right expertise in this regard, developed in the years by its founders and also with the contribution of partners accredited with the Transparency Register in Brussels

Activities provided

• Organizational assessment
  • Evaluation of the Client’s interest/project, together with a general and initial plan on specific actions and relations to develop.
• Intelligence and Analysis
  • Monitoring of the EU legislative activity pertaining to the client’s specific interest.
  • Monitoring of the approach and actions undertaken by the client’s main competitors on the same specific topic.
  • Study of the political and institutional scenario, together with the mapping of the decision makers involved in the sectors relevant to the client.
  • Selection of the institutional key players to approach and profiling of the main ones.

Influence and accreditation

• Development of networking platforms to put together the main stakeholders of a specific sector, with the objective of promoting topics of potential interest.
• Organization of events with the involvement of all the players (e.g. research centres, universities, think-tanks, representatives from the institutions, businesses etc) within a certain sector.
• Development of relations with decision makers (e.g. Parliamentary. Commissions, Ministries, DG and Agencies officials etc.), so as to influence their political and legislative agenda.
• Development of relations with the main interest groups, potential partners and advisory groups in the client’s specific sector, in order to create more awareness among the institutions during the critical moments of the decision making process, and facilitate the access to finance/grants by private and public institutions.
• Preparing of dossiers and position papers.
• Drafting of laws and regulations.

Thanks to it’s long-standing expertise and experience, LF Consulting is able to effectively support clients in identifying and suggesting tenders issued by European institutions and published on the Official Journal of the European Union.

The service includes the following:

• Constant notification on tenders in the different stages (Tender Notice, Prior Information Notice, Call for Expression of Interest);
• Information on the tender awards related to the sector the client has expressed an interest .
• Monitoring of competitors and tenders awarded to them.

As for the specific support in participating to tenders, LF provides:

• Collating of all the documents needs to participate.
• Communication with the contracting authority
• Detailed listing of all the activities to be undertaken, together with the list of documents and certifications needed.
• Monitoring of the contracting authorities and their needs.
• Determination of any excluding criteria from the tendering procedure
• Assistance in examining the official request of participation to the tender.
• Overall checking of the completeness and accuracy of the documents to be submitted.
• Participation to the opening of the bids.

LF Consulting is able to carry out detailed technical planning on opportunities funded directly by the European Union, in favor of companies whose core business is in the field of research, innovation and training.

Activities provided:

- Prompt and continuous information about all funding opportunities and on any new development in the EU legislation, with indications on the strategy to follow.

- Selection of valuable and reliable European partners to involve in the projects the company wishes to promote. LF has a comprehensive network of partners who can be involved in partnerships necessary to participate to European tenders.

- Identification of priority sectors at the EU level and development of an ad hoc strategy.

- Technical assistance in drawing up proposals. LF’s support covers all the stages of preparation of a proposal, from preparing the first draft, to discussing with the EU officers in charge, amending the proposal and coordinating the activity of all partners involved.

European Help Desk

The European Held Desk’s first objective is to promote the EU culture by involving corporations in training/informative initiatives, together with the EU main players, EU officials, lobbyists, experts in European affairs and the European industrial federations.

The meetings, seminars, conventions and workshops that are organized are all meant to increase awareness on existing and future opportunities for businesses within the EU and to spread a correct knowledge on the current policies followed by EU institutions.

The ultimate objective is to facilitate the client’s evaluation of interesting projects the EU may offer and to reduce by 2/3 costs that are usually required completing the whole procedure.

Activities provided:

- Allow the client to rely on a fully operational base, with all the technical competencies, that can deliver high level services.
- Provide the client with a representative office in Brussels and an official mailing address
- Manage the representative office in Brussels and coordinate the activity with the different counterparts.
- Provide free of charge to clients using LF rep office services the pre-evaluation of projects/opportunities.
- Provide the necessary training to the client’s staff who resides in Brussels.