Three projects, in full.

MeshSat keeps messages moving when the internet, mobile networks or other central systems fail. It bridges radio technologies people already carry — LoRa mesh, amateur radio, SMS, satellite — so a message that can't get through on one channel can still arrive on another. To get it out of the workshop and into the hands of Dutch volunteer emergency-communication groups, it needed funding.

Co-owner of MeshSat and lead on the funded programme — applicant, and the named contact for the project on SIDN fonds' own site. I work on the engineering and the hardware protocol internals alongside my partner, and I own the coordination, delivery, documentation and reporting.

Scoped a fundable six-month programme with nine concrete deliverables out of an ongoing technical project — a hard line to draw, and the one the fund cares most about. Built the budget and financing plan, wrote the project plan and the full application, produced and subtitled the video pitch, and worked through the fund's feedback round before final submission. Since the award: the grant agreement, bank and communication administration, and the reporting schedule that runs to April 2027.

Fix In Art is an EU-accredited organisation on the Youth Portal and SALTO-YOUTH, hosting and running Erasmus+ youth exchanges, training courses, and European Solidarity Corps volunteer placements across European partners.

Programme coordinator for six years — responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of multiple EU youth projects and for hosting international volunteers.

Coordinated logistics and international travel, managed partner communication across EU countries, and ran programme administration, budget tracking, and EU reporting. I looked after the full ESC hosting experience — onboarding, placements, and mentorship — keeping everything compliant with EU guidelines. I also built the partner database: ~80 organisations across 18 EU programme and partner countries, sorted by project field so we could match the right partner to the right funding call.

The culminating public event of SHAAG (Sexual Health Awareness Across Genders), a youth initiative on sexual health and gender equality I co-founded — created to open honest, science-led conversations and give the LGBTQ+ community a welcoming space in a city where those conversations were rare.

Co-founder and festival lead — responsible for programming, logistics, promotion, and the volunteer team behind a two-day event.

Over four months of preparation, I sourced and briefed speakers with medical and scientific credentials, and coordinated vendors plus a 15-person international volunteer team — from Turkey, Spain, Sweden, the UK and Latvia — with schedules and assignments. Planning ran on Trello and Excel, on a €1,000 total budget. I curated a photo exhibition, ran promotion and interactive programming with the LGBTQ+ collective, and wrote the post-event report.