estrat is a professional services company offering a range of services to governments, companies and universities/research institutions looking for advice and assistance on issues linked to EU innovation and research policies, including funding opportunities and project management services.

estrat partners have extensive working experience and a solid track record in the service areas, including working as experts for the European Commission, global top consulting firms, industry from large established companies to start ups.

Our strength lies in ‘having sat on all sides of the table’ and in combining skills and knowledge from the different angles.

estrat offers three main line of service:

• strategy and policy advice: impact assessments, studies, analyses, policy development
• funding and financing advice: helping organisations to leverage the availability of research grants, and other financial instruments , partner search, evaluation and supporting proposal preparation for EU collaborative research projects
• project management: professional services for managing cooperative projects, from administrative management to commercialization

Our services are result driven, following the path “from research results to commercialization”, which requires strategies with a strong focus on the commercial and innovative outputs from EU funded R&D projects.

estrat is also active in the wider area of entrepreneurship and the link to innovation, helping start-up companies and entrepreneurs to achieve key milestones in the first critical steps of company building towards commercialization of innovative ideas.

Based in Luxembourg we assist organizations from across the EU, including the EFTA states.