Philosophy and conduct

 

Professional integrity and ethical conduct are the credo of Pangea. Its management and staff are dedicated to upholding it, not just in principle but also in day-to-day practice. 

 

Professionalism

·            Professionalism implies competence in programs offered to clients.

·            It also entails familiarity with technological and scientific developments in the related areas.

·            We will not undertake projects that we cannot complete competently and properly on time.

·            We may, at times, be as critical as the referees could be, to make the utmost to assure success of our customers.

Ethical conduct also means that

·            We will always act in the best interest of our client.

·            Our opinions will be free and independent of undisclosed interests.

·            We will not enter into possible conflict of interest, and will diligently inform our clients when such conflict might exist.

·            We will not make promises or raise expectations that cannot be realized.

·            We will keep information and documents received in confidence as confidential and will make our outmost to protect them from disclosure. 

·            We will not make use of such proprietary information.

·            We will not make recommendations to clients for which third parties pay or provide other benefits to us without clearly and unambiguously informing the client in advance.

·            Our conduct versus the funding agencies, primarily in the European Commission, will be strictly ethical and professional. No unethical trade-offs will be suggested or implied to their personnel or agencies.

 

 

 

The Company

 

Pangea is headed by two veterans of Euro-Consultants (IL), which ceased activity. From FP5, FP6 and FP7, Eureka, and more, we bring experience for the development of proposals, partnering in projects, scientific direction and coordination of European projects. 

 

 

Ayelet Sapir, BA 

 

Mrs Ayelet Sapir is an experienced system analyst with years of experience in the software industry. She is a software developer and system analyst, with 10 years experience in software design, programming, testing and integration, in various fields, including database handling, SQL, communications and image processing. Served as senior S/W programming positions in leading Israeli companies.

 

Mrs Sapir has been involved in the development of proposals for ICT at Euro-Consultants (IL) and in project management of the projects TRISTAN-East and DESHNAF, and Scientific Director of IST-Mentor, IST-Mentor+.  

 

 

Zvi E. Kahana, MSc, MPhil, PhD   

 

Dr. Kahana studied at City College (NY) and at Columbia University. Trained as a microbiologist and immunochemist he has conducted and directed extensive and diverse research at the Weizmann Institute (Plant Genetics, Isotope Research), in Industry (Sigma-Aldrich), and consulted numerous biotechnological, biomedical and clinical projects.

 

Dr. Kahana has vast experience in many facets of biotechnological and biomedical research, project evaluation, the management of multinational scientific R&D and collaboration.

 

Dr. Kahana directed the Life Sciences Division in Euro-Consultants (IL), and has prepared many successful proposals in FP5 and FP6. He also participated in and managed European projects in medical technology (MEDTECH), food technology (ALIMEDA, WIAM), agriculture (CEC-Animal Science) and medicine (LSH-ACC-Mentor), in some as Scientific Director. He instructed the rules and methods of proposal preparation of FP6 in many European orgnisations in numerous European countries. He was also intensively involved in several ICT, nanotechnology and environment projects.