Kurt Salmon is a leading consulting firm advising private companies and public institutions on strategy, organisation and management consulting. The company operates across the five continents through offices in 15 countries and 1,600 professionals. Within Kurt Salmon, the Financial Subsidy Services (FSS) specialize in assisting companies and public institutions with all aspects of public funding granted for complex projects. Our team of 35 specialists with scientific background (space, ict, chemistry, ...) combines local, national and EU coverage of funding programmes. Kurt Salmon’s specialists combine several decades of experience in setting-up complex projects, obtaining public funding for them and then managing administrative and collaborative matters in order to ensure smooth operation and reporting. In the field of R&D and innovation, Kurt Salmon’s FSS experience has been applied to consortia ranging from 4 to 35 partners, with public funding ranging from 1 to 25 million Euros, granted from leading European and national programmes (FP7, ESA, IMI, ENIAC, Life+, Eco-innovation, structural funds, etc.).