Andrea Ballouk

• Funding advice for companies and research institutions
• Preparing funding applications (national and EU)
• Preparing/reviewing interim and expenditure reports
• Preparing/reviewing interim and final reports
• Project controlling (national and EU)
• Project management & coordination, PMO – national and EU
• Process management, process development, process implementation
• Organizing, facilitating, preparing and following up meetings
• Reporting for internal and external stakeholders
• Conducting workshops and training sessions
• Advising on digitalization, Industry 4.0
• Coaching business owners and staff in transformation processes, e.g. digital transformation with Digital3R®
• Coaching R&D project consortia: team-building processes, project support, interdisciplinary and intercultural communication

Held various management positions.

• Project Management Agency Jülich (PtJ), between 2001 and 2016**

• Reviewing funding applications for various federal ministries

• Multi-project management & project controlling

• Coordinating networks

• Organizing, facilitating, preparing and following up project meetings

• Reviewing expenditure reports and project reports

• Conducting workshops and training sessions for internal and external clients on topics such as profi Online, legal framework of funding, and more

• Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-2) (10/2014 – 08/2015)**

• Member of the management team, responsible for organizing and managing scientific infrastructure

• Interim management of the Biotechnology Science Center

• Coordinator & manager of an EU network (ERA-NET) (04/2006 – 12/2008)**

• Coordinating and managing a network of funding agencies and governmental organizations (24 partners from 21 countries) – topic H2 & fuel cells

• Overall administrative, personnel and financial responsibility, as well as PMO

• Organizing, facilitating, preparing and following up project meetings

• Project controlling (e.g. deliverables, eligible costs, audit certificates)

• Preparing funding applications at EU level

• Developing international framework programs to support projects on fuel cells and hydrogen

• Participating in various working groups of the European Commission

• Executive Board at Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) (10/2003 – 04/2006)**

• Personal assistant to the board in the field of energy research

• Liaison between the board, administrative and scientific units of Forschungszentrum Jülich

• PMO, scheduling, controlling

• Organizing, preparing and following up board, supervisory board, etc. meetings

• Developing the basis for evaluations of FZJ by funding agencies within the framework of program-oriented funding

• Committee work inside and outside FZJ

• Developing a new CT-based method for exploring coal seams
• Project manager in the field of engineering geophysical exploration