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OppsLink is a platform that connects academic experts, PhD students, (early career) researchers and alumni with funded consulting opportunities. These range from UK and local government to the European Commission and international organisations. It offers a searchable database of current tenders that are open for applications.

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Labour Market and Skills Forecast in ETF Partner Countries
European Training Foundation (ETF)
To develop, test and operationalise a methodology for forecasting labour market and skills demand in ETF Partner Countries. ETF intends to develop, pilot and operationalise a comprehensive and sustainable methodology for long-term labour market and skills forecasting in ETF partner countries at national and sectoral levels. The methodology should be aligned with relevant EU and international approaches and standards while remaining adaptable to the institutional, statistical and labour market realities of ETF partner countries.
Research, Evaluation and Surveys Education and Skills Technology and Innovation
Oxfordshire Growth Hub Business Support
OXFORDSHIRE LOCAL ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP LIMITED
Enterprise Oxfordshire requires a supplier to build on our Growth Hub business support offer to Oxfordshire SMEs. The supplier will be required to set up, implement, manage and deliver an outstanding Growth Hub offer for Oxfordshire. This will include: • Triaging businesses to ensure they access the most suitable support for them. • Designing business support options for any sector, stage and type of business. • Delivering business support activities which are innovative, tailored to SME business needs in Oxfordshire and impactful - driving benefits for businesses and the wider economy. • Working with internal teams to attract new clients to the support as well as promoting the support offered. • Generating new clients for the Growth Hub. • Providing programme management support including back-office administration and reporting. • Evaluating delivery and providing case studies and impact reports.
SAC-27-010 International Engagement Requirement
SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT LIMITED
The Satellite Applications Catapult (the Catapult) is seeking to identify organisations with the capacity, expertise, and relevant international experience to support the development and delivery of its international engagement. The requirement is expected to focus on strengthening market insight, market push and priority country selection, overseas partner development, routes to market for UK companies, and practical implementation planning. The Catapult is particularly interested in hearing from organisations that can provide one or more of the following capabilities: International strategy, trade, and market-entry expertise: Organisations with experience helping technology, innovation, space, defence, or advanced engineering businesses understand overseas markets, identify routes to market, assess commercial demand, and prioritise countries based on evidence of opportunity and accessibility. Space sector or technology commercialisation and development expertise:...
Research, Evaluation and Surveys Technology and Innovation Organisations and Management Consulting
Policy Support Framework Contract 2026-2030
DG ECHO
The objective of the Framework Contract is to provide support and assistance to DG ECHO policy development and analysis, through the deployment of short-term expertise.
Development and International Programmes
ESPON ARISE - Adaptive Resilience and Inclusive Strategies for Europe’s Structurally Declining Territories
ESPON EGTC
The project will develop a coherent framework for understanding how territorial cohesion and resilience operate under conditions of persistent low growth, demographic contraction and structural decline. Based on European-wide territorial mapping, it will elaborate typologies of territories facing persistent low growth and demographic contraction, and produce territorial maps of vulnerability, adaptive capacity and resilience. Through comparative qualitative case studies across different territorial contexts, it will document adaptive territorial practices and governance innovations. Finally, the project will offer practical policy guidance suggesting how cohesion policy, territorial governance and resilience planning frameworks may need to evolve in response to persistent low growth and structural territorial contraction.
Urban Planning, Infrastructure and Transport Housing and Built Environment
International Institutional Consultancy to Conduct Tajikistan's National Child Online Safety Assessment Using the WeProtect Global Alliance Model National Response Framework (MNRF)
UNICEF
International Institutional Consultancy to Conduct Tajikistan's National Child Online Safety Assessment Using the WeProtect Global Alliance Model National Response Framework (MNRF), with Integrated Analysis of Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies and Child Safeguarding.
Organisations and Management Consulting
Raising awareness of and building capacity for the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
EU Commission
The Charter strategy underlines the importance of strengthening the application of the Charter through awareness raising and capacity building initiatives. Accordingly, projects under this priority are intended to raise the fundamental rights knowledge of relevant actors. While building on the central role of civil society organisations and human rights defenders, funded projects could involve national, regional and local authorities as partners (co-applicants), with the aim of supporting joint capacity building and awareness raising efforts. The projects funded under this priority should address the capacity building and awareness raising needs on the Charter. In particular, relevant projects should focus on raising awareness and building capacity on at least one of the following topics: the Charter in general and/or the contents of an individual Charter right or several of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter; the Charter’s scope of application; the remedies available...
Promoting an enabling civic space
EU Commission
Promoting an enabling civic space (CERV-2026-CHAR-LITI-CIVIC) A thriving civic space requires an enabling legal, administrative and regulatory environment in which civil society organisations (CSOs) are supported and empowered, protected from threats, and able to operate freely. This call therefore aims to reinforce the conditions for such an environment by supporting actions that strengthen both the monitoring of civic space and the protection and resilience of CSOs and human rights defenders working to uphold EU values. Monitoring of civic space Projects should establish or enhance systematic and comprehensive monitoring systems to regularly assess the environment in which CSOs operate at national level. These should build on and align as closely as possible with existing frameworks—such as the indicators developed by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and data from international organisations—as well as national monitoring systems, to ensure comparability and...
Advancing Climate Finance for Global Transition Pathways Towards Carbon Neutrality and Climate Resilient Development
European Commission, DG CLIMA - Climate Action
Achieving the transition towards carbon-neutral and climate-resilient development necessitates a comprehensive understanding of the financial needs, targeted investment areas, and the deployment of effective financial instruments on a global scale. Moreover, reforming the international financial architecture is crucial to facilitate and support this transition. The action should explore these critical dimensions of climate finance, including the identification of tools to monitor climate financial flows (public and private, international and domestic) as a foundation for evidence-based decision-making. The action should cover the following elements at global level with differentiation by geographic area with a focus on SIDS and LDCs: 1) Identification of Financial Needs for Climate Transition 2) Targeted Areas for Investment 3) Financial Instruments and Mechanisms 4) Reforming the International Financial Architecture 5) Monitoring Climate Financial Flows 6) Mobilizing Private Sector...
End-term evaluation of 14 outcomes of the 2022-2026 DGD-funded programme implemented by Broederlijk Delen and Studio Globo
Broederlijk Delen VZW
Broederlijk Delen and Studio Globo invite tenders for the final external evaluation of their joint programme System Change for Sustainable and Just Societies (2022–2026), funded by the Belgian Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid (DGD). The programme is implemented in eleven partner countries (Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Haiti, Palestine-Israel, Peru, Senegal and Uganda) and in Belgium. It consists of fourteen programme outcomes covering three interconnected domains of change: * sustainable food systems and natural resource governance; * global solidarity, citizenship and movement building; * political voice, participation and policy influence. The primary purpose of the evaluation is accountability. The evaluation will assess the effectiveness of the programme by examining the extent to which the intended outcomes have been achieved, the programme's contribution to the changes described in its...
Development and International Programmes