We are management institute of sustainable development and public policy
Smart Continent values
What we do?
- Strategic planing advisory
- Evaluation and impact assessment
- Engagement and co-creation
- Data driven research and analytics
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Years of activity
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Completed studies
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FP7 & Horizons’ projects
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Clients
Strategic planing advisory
We help governments to set up priorities, goals and measures, as well as to mobilize to work collaboratively with various stakeholders. New regulations can put the value at risk and create new opportunities through programs such as stimulus packages or government subsidies. A rigorous and quantified assessment of the value at stake from these risks and opportunities—over the short and long term—is critical to prioritize policy tools. We help governments identify and understand the key regulatory issues that may affect the industry, leveraging an in-depth understanding of the benefits and unique insights into the threats that could arise.
Evaluation and impact assessment
Formulating and implementing optimal policies will only become more complicated in an increasingly developing society. The question we are solving is how to assess projects’ value, efficiency, and effectiveness. Stakeholders are no longer prepared to accept only product progress indicators and crude accounting ratios as achievement measures. Our reports and insights support policymakers and managers in getting a grip on the execution of activities and determining whether the right course is chosen. Appropriate instruments and methods are selected for each assignment. Usually, we use the approach defined by EVALSED. The problems tree, reconstruction of intervention logic, contra-fact analysis, and CBA are several examples of methods we utilize in our work.
Engagement and co-creation
To execute the strategy, governments must proactively engage with a broad range of stakeholders—society, consumers, media, shareholders, labour force. We help clients identify critical stakeholders, understand their overt and obscure agendas and priorities, and map out each group’s influence in decision-making.
Data driven analytics and research
Smart Continent uses the following methodological approach for analytical studies: analysing if there are no physical, social or institutional binding constraints; exploring the demand for services in the future will be adequate (long-run forecasts); estimating if appropriate technology is available; analysing if the utilization rate of the infrastructure or the plant will not reveal excessive spare capacity; availability of personnel skills and management; project design (scale, location, etc.) justification against alternative scenarios (‘business as usual’, ‘do-minimum’, ‘do-something’ and ‘do-something else’).