Dr. Pascal Kahlem
Founder & CEO · PhD in human genetics
Key Expert and Team Leader on two EU technical assistance contracts for the establishment of biotechnology research centres in Türkiye.
The company
A small team, built around European funding
SNM’s expertise is in European Commission funding (Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe), but we can provide support for all national and international funding bodies.
Scientific Network Management S.L. (SNM) is a privately owned company created in 2013 by Dr. Pascal Kahlem, which focuses on Grant Writing, Assessment, Training and Management of scientific research and innovation projects in Europe.
Our area of expertise is life sciences, systems biology, bioinformatics. We can also provide technical support in other domains.
As managing partner inside a consortium, SNM provides a reliable management service for less than it would cost the coordinator to hire a dedicated manager. We bring the expertise and the people, and we scale the effort to what the project actually needs.
AI is part of how the work gets done — on our own infrastructure
We use AI where it measurably improves a proposal and not where it does not: retrieval across past calls and evaluation reports, drafting support under deadline, and a structured second reading of a text before a panel gives you theirs. The judgement about what a project should be stays with people who have written and evaluated proposals themselves.
Where the available tools were not good enough we built our own. Whetmark (opens in a new tab) reads a draft against the criticisms EU evaluation panels actually recorded, quotes the passage that prompts each one, and marks the suggested fixes into the Word file as tracked changes. That one is a language model, running on a private instance.
The Funding Radar (opens in a new tab) — which aggregates open research-funding calls from eight sources, and is free to use — deliberately is not. Collecting and matching calls is ordinary software, and it is more reliable, cheaper and easier to audit without a model in the middle. Knowing which of the two a problem needs is most of the skill.
Your unsubmitted proposal is not training data. Anything that touches your text runs on a private instance, so a draft never reaches a public model service, and we do not put client material into anything that trains on it. If a third-party model is involved in your work, we tell you which one and what it sees.
I started my scientific management career in 2006 at the European Bioinformatics Institute (UK) with the pan-European systems biology project ENFIN, and realised very quickly that I was able to move scientific projects by helping scientists with what represented a burden to them: the paperwork, the project organisation and funding procurement. In 2013, Scientific Network Management S.L. was born.
Dr. Pascal Kahlem, founder and CEO
711
organisations
38 countries · since 2013
That figure counts direct clients together with the partners in the consortia SNM has managed. We do not publish a client list — many research organisations prefer not to disclose that they used outside help, though some are happy to say so themselves, as the testimonials below do — but the reach itself is not abstract:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- China
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Latvia
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Türkiye
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
In their words
Testimonials
Dr. Kahlem was the Project manager of the ENFIN network of excellence, in which I do participate. Pascal’s performance on managing the scientific and logistics aspects of such a big scale project is remarkably efficient and fruitful. Therefore I strongly recommend Pascal to any scientific managing endeavour as his skills have proven to be invaluable for the ongoing success of the project.
I contracted SNM in 2014 to support the writing of an ERASysAPP grant and an H2020 proposal. Pascal and his team provided expert knowledge over EC grant management. Their work and support has been highly reliable during all the writing process, including the consortium building, partners’ data collection, budget development, proposal writing and review, and timely submission. I will certainly contract his company again at the next opportunity.
I worked together with Pascal during the ProteomeXchange project. I can only highlight his good work, his high motivation to get things done properly and in time and his deep knowledge of all EU grants related stuff. He is definitely the “perfect” project manager of EU Consortia.
I worked with Pascal as part of the ENFIN project. He was an outstanding project manager, not only supporting the group but making sure that progress was constantly being made (difficult in a 5-year project) and making significant contributions to the scientific development of the project as well. I would recommend him highly to anyone looking for a scientific project manager.
SNM proved to be highly professional and created a team-friendly atmosphere on top of it.
Who we are
Team
SNM capitalises on the experience of its coworkers who are scientists, professional grant writers, editors, project managers, business developers, communication professionals as well as web and graphic designers.
In 2015, two of our senior managers were accredited by ACCIÓ, the Catalan Government’s business competitiveness agency, as consultants for Horizon 2020 in the RIS3CAT sector «Industries of health and life sciences».
Samuel Keuchkerian
Internal consultant
Grant writing and strategy design for SMEs, organisations and academic centres.
SNM also works with a wider bench of internal consultants — grant writers, editors, project managers, communication professionals and designers — brought in according to what a project needs, rather than kept on a payroll and billed to it. Samuel is the most recent to have worked closely with us. We do not list them all here; who is on a given assignment is agreed with the client before it starts.
Track record
The projects and proposals behind those numbers
AnkaTheraHub (opens in a new tab)
Ankara Innovative Theranostics Development Center
- Programme
- EU — Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance, Competitive Sectors Programme
- Period
- 2023–2026
- SNM’s role
- Consortium partner, management entity
ProteomeXchange (opens in a new tab)
International proteomics data consortium
- Programme
- European Commission — FP7, grant 260558
- Period
- 2011–2014 (SNM a partner from 2014)
- SNM’s role
- Consortium partner, project management
And the proposals written for other people’s projects
- 50+applications written, reviewed or translated since 2013
- 3pillars of Horizon 2020 covered, plus Horizon Europe and national funders
- ES · CH · UKnational agencies worked with
Most of what SNM does is written for someone else’s consortium: proposals to the European Commission across Excellent Science, Industrial Leadership and Societal Challenges, and to national agencies in Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. A number of them were funded, among them applications for European research infrastructures.
We do not name them. The grant belongs to the coordinator who won and ran it, not to the people who helped draft it, and several clients ask us specifically not to advertise that they used outside help. We also publish no success rate: EU calls are decided at single-digit success rates by design, every consultancy’s denominator is different, and a percentage on a website tells you nothing you can act on.
What is checkable is the other direction — the people who worked with us said so themselves, under their own names, in the testimonials.
Get in touch
Tell us about your project
Whether you are preparing a proposal, coordinating a consortium or looking for a project manager, write to us and we will come back to you.
- [email protected]
- Phone
- +34 698 707 986
- Office
- Avinguda de Mistral 40, Entresol 8
08015 Barcelona, Spain