ASCENT is a project design, facilitation & evaluation consultancy that thrives on enabling clients to overcome their development challenges and realise their goals.
It was founded by Eileen Crowley (BA European Development Studies, MA Town & Country Planning) after twenty years of experience, working in local and regional government, as well as academia in Ireland, designing, winning and managing funding proposals for strategic research & development projects, across multiple EU funding programmes. Eileen has significant experience in designing, managing and evaluating projects and funding proposals. She is an experienced expert evaluator for the European Commission, specialising in sustainable regional & urban development & circular economy. She is a validated lead expert for the URBACT programme providing support to consortia in stakeholder engagement, co-creation methods & processes, action planning & implementation.
Through ASCENT, Eileen provides a range of services from facilitating project design & development, identifying suitable funding opportunities for single projects as well as wider funding strategy development, partner searching & consortium building and pre-submission review of your funding proposal. Whether you need help in getting your project funding ready or if you need support in project implementation, ASCENT will bring its expertise, experience and track record of success. We ensure that you have the best chance of funding allocation in this highly competitive and complex environment. We support you along the project implementation journey. This is our passion and we are always keen to find ways to ensure that you get the very best results for your project.
We pride ourselves on our clients' satisfaction by delivering the best solutions in a cost effective, timely and professional manner. We deliver only the best results for our clients so that they can have the optimum chance of building a competitive funding proposal and implementing meaningful project actions with lasting results.