Sara Prazeres

Short-term mission to support follow up on the many separation topics and deliverables in collaboration with Solvay, including contract management, knowledge transfer, planning, and coordination of efforts across different teams.

Provided PMO support for strategic initiatives in the financial sector, ensuring alignment across stakeholders and smooth project delivery in a highly regulated environment. Key contributions: • Monitored project progress, tracked deliverables, and prepared reporting for senior stakeholders. • Supported planning and resource coordination across multiple teams, anticipating risks and dependencies. • Contributed to structured governance by maintaining project documentation and improving reporting consistency.

Junior PMO Main activities: • Enhancing and providing management reports and business reports to enable the effective management of projects and programmes within EDA; • Liaising with EDA’s specialist contractor on improvements in the capability of the Project Management IT system; • Acting as an internal consultant to promote good practice in project management across the Agency and advise Project Officers in their use of the Agency PPM IT system; • Developing and enhance project management training and workshops for the benefit of EDA staff. Main achievement: implementation of project management methodologies ensuring the practices are widely accepted and systematically followed in the organization.

Main activities: • Attendance of meetings of several working groups of the Council of the European Union on the domain of Economic and Financial Affairs (Budget, Customs, Tax Questions, Financial Services, etc.). • Drafting and assist in the preparation of diplomatic notes/reports addressed to the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. • Consolidation of the Portuguese Ministries's input in order to present Portugal’s position in the working group meetings.

Diplomatic Institute Main achievement was setting up procedures from scratch within the structure of the Diplomatic Institute delivering functional working methods.