ASCENT is a project & strategy 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 almost twenty years of experience, working in local and regional government, as well as academia in Ireland, designing, winning and managing funding proposals for strategic development projects, across multiple EU funding programmes. Eileen has significant experience in designing, preparing, managing, reviewing and evaluating strategies 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 and is currently lead expert for the URBACT Resourceful Cities network and validated senior expert for DG Regio. ASCENT provides a range of services from facilitating project & strategy design & development, identifying suitable funding opportunities for single projects as well as wider funding strategy development, partner searching & consortium building, pre-submission review of your funding proposal, exploitation & impact management, as well as the provision of communication & dissemination services. If it's a funding proposal you want to develop, ASCENT will bring its expertise, experience and track record of success ensuring that you have the best chance of funding allocation in this highly competitive and complex environment. 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.