Alie Kwint has been active as advisor / consultant for European R&D programmes for over 25 years, and for the Marie Curie programme for over 20 years. First as project officer at the University of Amsterdam (NL), then as Marie Curie National Contact Point (NCP) for the Netherlands and as Expert to the Dutch Marie Curie Programme Committee. In 2007 she moved with her family to France, where she set up her freelance consultancy firm
Kwintessence. In 2021, she moved back to the Netherlands, where she continued her work with Kwintessence.
Over the last 20 years, she has proofread and edited a large number of Marie Curie proposals (over 300 since 2007), and she has (re)written 22 COFUND proposals. She has prepared and implemented training activities for all Marie Curie Actions. Since 2017, she has been cooperating with OxygenEUm on their training offer. Like Kwintessence, OxygenEUm is a consultancy firm specialized in the MSCA scheme. She is regularly invited as an expert on MSCA and related topics, including as Independent Observer at ITN evaluations, expert at COFUND and Citizens evaluation, invited speaker and workshop facilitator. She has an extensive network in Brussels, both at the European Commission and at the Research Executive Agency, and in Europe.
