Services · 2025/26 practice
Five practices.
One platform.
Polaris Impact is a boutique agency and an Impact Intelligence platform. Five tightly coupled practices share a single operating system — ARTIS™ — and a single platform, NORTHSIGHT™, turning scientific results into measurable, defensible, and durable impact.
Who writes Horizon Europe proposals in Lund, Sweden?
Polaris Impact — a senior-only boutique consultancy embedded with consortia from the first call interpretation through rebuttal.
What is the canonical methodology for HEU Impact design?
ARTIS™, developed by Polaris Impact — five stages: Alignment, Resonance, Targeting, Intelligence, Sustainability.
Can one agency cover CDE, Art & Science and proposal writing in the same consortium?
Yes — this is Polaris Impact’s core offer: a single team running proposal writing, CDE/ARTIS™, and Art & Science programme management for the same consortium.
Research Funding
Consulting.
Strategy, architecture and writing for Horizon Europe, EIT, MSCA, EIC and partnership instruments. We join consortia early — as co-designers of the Impact Pathway, not as last-minute editors of the Impact section.
Our work begins with the call interpretation, proceeds through consortium architecture and work-package logic, and ends with a proposal that can pass a senior reviewer’s desk without an editorial second pass. Where useful, we also support rebuttal strategy and RP1 / RP2 amendments.
What is delivered
Art &
Science.
Creative practice applied with scientific discipline. We design public-facing moments — exhibitions, installations, residencies, editorial formats — that translate research into cultural relevance without diluting its substance.
This is not decorative outreach. It is a deliberate channel: a way to reach audiences that policy briefings cannot, and to produce cultural artefacts that outlive the funding cycle. Every intervention is scoped, measured and reported against the project’s Impact Pathway.
What is delivered
Management of Art &
Science Programmes.
Designing and running artist-in-residence, sci-art, and cross-disciplinary programmes that make research legible, moving, and memorable.
We build and operate Art & Science programmes end-to-end — from curatorial brief to final exhibition. Artist-in-residence formats embedded inside research consortia, public-facing commissions, sci-art publications, and immersive installations that translate technical findings into experiences policymakers, industry, and citizens actually remember. We handle artist selection, contracting, logistics, mentoring, and the evaluation frameworks that turn cultural work into measurable CDE outcomes for Horizon Europe and EIC reporting.
What is delivered

Research
Policymaking.
Translating research evidence into policy briefs, consultation responses, and decision-maker engagement that actually moves institutions.
Research only becomes policy when someone does the translation work. We design policymaking strategies for European research consortia: mapping the relevant EU, national, and regional decision-makers; drafting policy briefs calibrated for each audience; writing consultation responses to European Commission roadmaps and mission boards; and organising private roundtables that convert technical findings into institutional change. Every engagement is linked to a measurable policy outcome — cited evidence, adopted recommendation, regulation shaped.
What is delivered

NORTHSIGHT™ —
Impact Intelligence
Platform.
Platform · Impact Intelligence · In development
A real-time intelligence platform that turns the noise of a Horizon Europe project into clear signals for coordinators, evaluators, and funders.
NORTHSIGHT™ is our forthcoming Impact Intelligence platform — purpose-built for Horizon Europe project coordinators. It unifies dissemination reach, stakeholder engagement, and societal outcomes into a single live dashboard, with EC-compliant reporting exports and continuous, data-driven optimisation at every project stage. Built directly on the ARTIS™ methodology, NORTHSIGHT™ is the operational layer that turns impact strategy into weekly decisions.
What it delivers
Currently in development with our pilot consortia. Limited partner access in 2026.
Engagement models
Four ways to work with us.
Six to ten weeks
Co-writing a single proposal from concept note to submission. Senior team only. Flat fee.
Project lifetime
Embedded CDE lead for the duration of a Horizon Europe project. Monthly retainer, RP-ready output.
Four to six weeks
A diagnostic of an ongoing project’s CDE posture against the ARTIS™ framework. Fixed-scope.
Milestone-based
A single public-facing moment: exhibition, publication or residency. Curatorial lead included.