Strategic Benchmarking

Position your organisation for success by learning from the best.

Understand how others succeed – and how you can do it better

In an increasingly competitive public funding landscape, understanding how your organisation compares to industry leaders is not a luxury — it’s a strategic necessity. FirstBlue’s Strategic Benchmarking service offers a confidential, structured, and insight-driven analysis that helps you assess your positioning, identify gaps, and adopt proven practices used by high-performing organisations in your field.

This service provides you with a clear understanding of how your peers perform in securing grants and other public funds, how their internal teams are structured and resourced, and how they manage project identification, decision-making and applications. We also analyse their external engagement — including participation in European associations, contribution to public consultations, and overall influence in EU policy environments. Finally, we examine how public funding is reflected in their communication and corporate strategy, including alignment with major EU initiatives such as the Green Deal, Horizon Europe, or the Innovation Fund.