Metis GmbH

Metis GmbH is a European consultancy offering knowledge-based services in the fields of policy design, policy research, programme implementation and evaluation connected to a wide range of European policies. Clients include national and regional governments in Austria and abroad (EU Member States, Candidate Countries and Potential Candidates), the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Committee of the Regions. The company has offices in Vienna, Brno and Brussels. The competencies of Metis GmbH cover all phases of both the project and the programme cycle, i.e. from studies and analyses, programme design and project pipeline management, on to implementation, monitoring and evaluation as well as controlling. In most cases, the programmes and projects managed by Metis GmbH relate to European policies and funding instruments (ERDF, ESF, EAFRD).

The company’s areas of expertise encompass all areas of socio-economic development:

• Regional, urban and rural development,
• cross-border and transnational cooperation, 
• employment and labour market policy, HRM and training, 
• innovation, research & technological development, 
• sustainability, environment, transport, 
• agricultural policy,
• competition policy, and
• EU enlargement and neighbourhood-policy

Metis GmbH has become one of the leading European consultancies for performing high-quality policy, programme and project evaluations for European, national and regional institutions in EU Member States. Evaluations provide an anticipatory (ex-ante), accompanying (interim, ongoing) or retrospective (ex-post) assessment of programmes and projects. They address broader questions related to particular funds and more specific questions related to particular policy aspects or horizontal policies. Evaluations can provide anticipatory (ex-ante), accompanying (interim, ongoing) or retrospective (ex-post) assessments of programmes and projects. They can either address broad questions related to particular funds, more specific questions related to particular policy aspects, or horizontal policies.The Managing Directors of Metis GmbH are Peter Schneidewind and Herta Tödtling-Schönhofer. The company employs a team of 17 experts and support staff. Their linguistic capacity covers German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Czech, Slovenian and Polish. The Metis network includes an international pool of approximately 800 experts from a wide range of fields of expertise, who cooperate with the company on a freelance-basis.