SERVICESOur Offerings
EU Affairs
The political and economic landscape of the EU ecosystem and its complex decision-making process is in constant change and sometimes difficult to navigate. As EU policy decisions have substantial impact on business, it is crucial to have a proactive and productive presence in Brussels, in order to stay ahead of EU developments by understanding policy priorities and anticipating change.
From monitoring, intelligence gathering and policy analysis, to assessing regulatory opportunities and risks, be it in forthcoming legislation or in the implementation and compliance of existing legislation, we can support your company in your endeavors and inform your strategic choices in Europe.
Enhanced intelligence on the European agenda, policy and regulatory issues in order to prepare for action on all issues relevant to your business or industry.
Advocacy & Lobbying
Brussels is currently the second city in number of active lobbyists in the world, after Washington, DC. To have an effective impact and to let your voice be heard, it is better to work close to the EU institutions and policy makers. Lobbyists are the indispensable bridge linking a sector of the society (industry, trade and many others) with the policy makers. The lobbyist provides technical expertise to the EU regulators in particular domains in which they may not be experts.
We draft position and priority papers on the relevant dossiers for the represented sector. We provide multi-channel strategies and prepare activities which aim to promote your views and shape opinion among key target groups. We deliver and implement lobbying and profile-raising strategies, and senior counsel to boards and C-level executives.
Help you shape a positive reputation, build solid networks, craft your message, engage in the policy debate and thought leadership and demonstrate good corporate citizenship.
Corporate Communications
The power of your corporate story is often underestimated. The main reason why stakeholders and investors would choose you goes not exclusively rely on your company’s qualifications or accomplishments. It is the story of your brand, of how it came to be and where it’s going. And that story, with its successes and challenges, needs to be told in a coherent, visually appealing and consistent way to be persuasive and to stand out.
Together, we develop and implement tailor-made communication strategies targeting both your stakeholders and the general public on social, digital and broadcast media. We create a unique visual identity which will deliver a unique character to your brand. We inspire your audience with impactful videos of your success stories, interactive infographics, engaging newsletters and a modern web presence. We train your team with made-to-fit audiovisual coaching to show you the latest dissemination techniques and maximize impact.
Help you tell the stories of progress and success in a creative, tangible and inspiring way. With our approach, you directly engage with your audience to get your message through. You become an appealing, authentic and reliable partner. You command respect and inspire trust.
EU-funded projects
More than before, finding access to co-funding schemes in order to support your innovative projects requires a solid concept, a careful examination of the right call or scheme and a dense Consortium. Horizon Europe brings more calls with moderate budget. Therefore, those choices will be of crucial importance to withstand good success rates.
From FP5 to FP7, as well as several H2020, we have supported Universities, research institutes and companies in searching solid Consortium Partners, proposal writing, and reviewing proposals. We may deal with the project coordination, business/marketing plans, and DEC activities which increase the impact of the project and add on its potential market value. We propose bespoke training for project coordinators in order to deal effectively with all technical and financial reports to the European Commission.
Save time, focus on the science and innovation points of your proposal and increase your chances of success.
Consulting House
Times of uncertainty are characterized by both risks & opportunities. Maintaining the sense of leadership in a multi-polar, multi-layered, multi-faceted business environment requests new levels of organizational excellence by the management team: how to develop new business models, improve outcomes in key areas of your operations & decision-making, discover new opportunities to drive results at every level of your business. We can help you along every step of the journey in order to set an enhanced course of action for your company.
We maintain focus on the delivery of measurable value to our Clients, from the operational strategy and guidance on tackling complex matters, to the development of a synergistic relationship between marketing and corporate communications in order to successfully communicate company narratives and drive both short- and long-term revenue. We can establish your company as a powerful force, including within the digital marketplace.
Open the field of work for your products and keep you ahead of the game, increased correlation between the content of your messages and how you can convert them to sales, with measurable efficiency gains, assist critical choices for C-level management, support the transformative advantage and build robust growth engines for your company.
Crisis & Reputation Management
Recent crises have challenged political leadership and risk managers in many countries, often due to unexpected or unforeseen circumstances, but also due to weak links and breakdowns in information flow. These new crises differ significantly from the past because of their unexpectedly large scale, the fact that they are new or unprecedented –at least in human or crisis managers’ memories– or their unusual combination, and their transboundary nature. Today’s 24/7 & multi-channel news cycle is greatly influenced by citizen journalism and online conversations. Consequently, transparent, accurate & timely communication is not just an option, it is a must, before, during and after the crisis.
We prepare your teams for successful management and swift recovery from any crisis situation. From situation assessment, drafting crises scenarios and preparing operational crisis management and communication manual, to setting up crises-response teams and training them, we are there to guide you through every step of the pathway.
Deflect or contain a crisis without damage to your brand, valuation and reputation. In the best-case scenario, we can make you emerge stronger and positively boost your brand name you’ve spent years building.
WE AIM AT SHOWING TO YOU YOUR STRENGTHS, NOT OURSTransformational Leadership
Let’s make a difference together!
Executives at all organizational levels are under constant pressure to improve the performance of their company, business, agency, unit, or team. “Change Management” strategies have become popular methods of enhancing organizational performance. These strategies include approaches such as implementing new technology, instituting cost reduction programs, and introducing quality improvement programs -and, at the extreme, restructuring the whole organization. While these strategies have merit in making incremental improvements in performance, they do not produce the systemic change required for significant long-term improvement in organizational effectiveness and performance. More and more organizational leaders are realizing that change management strategies alone don’t provide an optimal return on investment. These leaders understand that their organizations must undergo deep, substantive change if they are to move to higher levels of improved and sustained performance. This deep change involves the reshaping of the organization’s culture through “Transformational Leadership”. This what Leadership Coaching should be about and nothing less.
As a constant guideline, we conduct a thorough orientation with our leader Client. As a first step, we spend enough time with our Client to explain our entire coaching process: the steps involved; the assessment tools we plan to use, including the SCARF instrument, Gallup’s StrengthsFinder and the feedback process; the timeline; our coaching approach; and resolve eventual confidentiality issues. We answer any questions our Client may have and make sure to obtain his/her consent before we move forward in the coaching process. We make the effort to fully prepare the leader Client. We do not assume that our leader Client will just “go with the flow” as we move through our coaching process. It’s critical for our Client to thoroughly understand the GROW Strategy Model and the SCARF instrument (including the importance of the proper mindset), and how the two combined can help him/her gain the self-awareness needed to achieve Full Spectrum Leadership. In addition, we explain the theory behind, and the purpose of, any other assessment tools to be used, such as a 360-degree instrument. Clients must fully understand the purpose, reliability, validity, confidentiality issues, and anticipated outcomes of any personality/psychological instrument they are asked to complete. This is our moral and ethical professional imperative.
Athroisis is your guide towards a boosted performance. We offer solutions to help you improve organizational performance and address whatever challenges you face -from team building, leadership, coaching, and conflict management to career development, selection, and retention. Perhaps that’s why almost 100 individuals in more than 12 countries use our services each year. They include people at Fortune 500 companies and businesses of all sizes, as well as start-ups, government agencies, and training and development professionals. Among our world-renowned brands are the NeuroLeadership’s SCARF® Gallup’s StrengthsFinder and MBTI assessments.
KNOW YOUR ABCDsArtificial intelligence, Big data, Cybersecurity & Digital
Nowadays, data and processes (e.g. in business) are the main sources of precious knowledge which can be extracted by applying AI techniques. Such extracted knowledge (e.g. customer profile, market basket analysis, medical diagnosis, fraud detection, etc.) is invaluable for decision support. Industry 4.0 enhanced the data gathering and the process modelling by using IoT devices and similar technologies. However, the resulted Big Data demand specific procedures for analysis and security to take advantage of them.
We can analyze your data and processes and extract knowledge out of them. e prepare your teams to adopt and apply cutting-edge technologies such as data mining and process modelling. We can protect your internet-connected systems from complex cyberthreats. We can support digitalization of your services by developing intelligent information systems.
We add value to your products and services. We support decision making for extending your brand and grow your business further.
Green Deal, CAP & Agri-food
By adopting the Green Deal, EU decided to make a concrete step towards a comprehensive environmental policy and the climate change mitigation policy. All European policies will have to conform to the Green Deal requirements. This will affect all major policies including the Common Agricultural Policy, hence the agri-food sector, as well as the broader energy policy. This shift creates a new operational framework for business, adds requirements and opens new perspectives when designing strategic plans and programs at all levels. It also requires a multi-policy approach and complex knowledge of the relevant EU and national policies. The financial instruments put in place to serve the Green Deal objectives are also considerable, reflected by the resources made available through the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).
The key to solving the challenges of the sector lies in better utilization of science and technology and more crucially, efficient implementation of sustainability principles in agriculture and the food supply chain. A quantum shift in the way we produce, finance and distribute food is under way. You may consider Athroisis as your “one-stop-shop” Partner to successfully guide your business through the new state of affairs.
You dispose of a paramount representation of the stakes and the logic behind them. You set your business objectives in a clear and direct manner in a growing and fast changing international environment. You establish efficient networks and operational synergies in order to propose novel solutions to your market and upgrade your market share in this challenging new European and international setting.
Energy Transition & Climate neutrality
The EU aims to become climate-neutral and an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This will affect all activity sectors, from the power/energy sector to industry, agriculture, forestry, among others. While global demand for energy continues to rise, increasing pressure from governments, investors, and consumers to support the decarbonization of the industry has spearheaded radical change. We are witnessing that the energy transition is firmly underway. In recent years we have seen the overhaul of entire business models from a focus on fossil fuels to clean energy, organizational restructures to meet new net zero targets, the sell down of billions worth of fossil fuel assets and a shift in bank appetite towards cleaner fuels and technologies. In Europe, renewable energies overtook fossil fuels in the EU’s energy mix for the first time in 2020. Even though other global economies are on similar transition paths, lots still need to be done to reach the ambitious goals from industries and companies, but also public entities. Despite strengthened legislative measures for environmental protection and reduction in the number of polluted sites, a substantial number of “hot spots” still exist globally. An integration of multiple novel ideas to create linkages between public authorities, industrial partners and the scientific community will be necessary.
We support companies, industries and the public sector to realize and implement the necessary changes that need to be made to become climate neutral in the bio-economy era in an environmental-safe way. We develop action plans that will succeed in climate neutral and resilient activities in the agriculture, forest and energy sector focusing on the environmental and economic pillars of sustainability. We conduct feasibility studies concerning municipal and industrial wastewater management and deliver tailor-made solutions that focus on circularity and take into consideration the surrounding environment in terms of soil, water and air quality. We develop nature-based solutions to tackle socio-environmental challenges such as climate change, water security and pollution, food security and biodiversity loss.
You adapt climate-neutral and circular solutions that will upgrade your market share in this challenging European and international background. You ensure a sustainable management of your waste that become a resource in an environmental-friendly way. You become a part of a dynamic network of Partners which shares experience and strives to implement novel approaches in the energy, food, agriculture and forestry sectors.
Hydrogen as Energy Carrier
A few years ago, just a handful of “heretics” would advocate the idea of renewable Hydrogen as a promising “green energy solution”. Now, the European Union is stepping up and places Hydrogen in the heart of its “green mix” to fight climate change. Indeed, Hydrogen is an abundant source, which accounts for almost ¾ of all matter in the Universe. It does not contain Sulfur, Nitrogen or Carbon that would produce gaseous pollutants up on oxidation. It disposes of an exceptionally high specific Energy Density (142 MJ/kg). It is the only fuel that is in position to -cost effectively- render an industrial process completely autonomous.
We are in position to propose holistic considerations based on Hydrogen Energy Autarchy in the following fields:
- Maritime technology (ICE-only through Hydrogen use ammonia is not favorable for companies dedicated on Hydrogen ICE)
- Industrial sector (plasma thermolysis by having 92kg/h at 1MW)
- Building sector (electrolyzer & fuel cells)
- Aviation (drones & agriculture)
- Smart Cities & Islands (for enhanced Green Tourism)
- Storage & Compression (metal hybrids for long range of storage)
- Autonomous (stand-alone) systems
- Nuclear reactors (based in UK strategic alliance -carbon intensive) for Hydrogen production and uses of nuclear wastes to power (HTFC)
- Circular economy / Mines
Zero CO2 emissions, avoid emission taxes, CO2 costs shall take an upward trend, with US$ 40-120/tnCO2.
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