Ideas are the currency of the 21st century. We are a communications agency that provides insightful ideas and compelling stories to win your audiences’ hearts and minds. We believe in direct outreach and participative action to make positive change happen.
We are mainly active in the fields of development, conflict transformation, cross-cultural dialogue, media freedom, women’s empowerment and arts.
We set up and implement tailor-made communications strategies, campaigns and action plans. We provide innovative and impactful communications tools and help distribute those through the most effective channels.
We break down complex policies into compelling story material. We can help draft, edit and proof-read any type of on- and off-line content.
We offer the following editorial services:
We assist you in identifying potential donors and help you formulate and present your project in such a compelling way that they will not let you walk away.
We set up media relations strategies and provide day-to-day media work and advice. We support you with the identification of key media representatives in your area of activity and help you establish, maintain and enhance relations with those media representitaves who matter in your field.
We help you promote events, exhibitions and other happenings. Thanks to our excellent networking skills we will help you ensure that your event gets the the prominence it deserves and the attention of those people who matter in your field.
We assist you in writing, editing and proof-reading your on- or off-line activity reports, annual reports or any other reporting material in English or French.
We assess your team’s capacity with regard to communications. Based on a detailed training needs assessment, we provide tailor-made training sessions and on-the-job mentoring.
Our training modules cover the following areas, to mention only a few:
We identify key stakeholders in your domain of activity and can help you set up, maintain and enhance your relations with stakeholders who matter.
We organize focus groups, one-on-one interviews and surveys in order to identify stakeholders’ perceptions and needs.
We also organize worskhops in order to help find common ground with key stakeholders who matter, optimise policy coordination and pave the way for successful partnerships.
We help you monitor and evaluate the outcome of your communications projects and programmes through the organization of ex-post and ex-ante focus groups, one-on-one interviews and surveys.
Ann 
Vaessen has been working in the field of communications, media and conflict transformation since 2002, times working with EU institutions, times with leading international communications agencies.
Ann has designed and managed several international campaigns, such as a campaign aiming at challenging public perception towards countries of the Western Balkans, winner of a Cannes Corporate Media & TV Award and the campaign on Croatia’s accession to the European Union, which was nominated for an EMEA Sabre Award. She has also helped organize a conference on media freedom in the Western Balkans and Turkey which was attended by approximately 500 stakeholders.
Upon her arrival in New York City, where she studied journalism, Ann witnessed the 11th September attacks. This experience brought her to the realization of the importance of conflict-sensitive reporting and inter-cultural dialogue to prevent and overcome conflict. Having later worked for two post-conflict assistance missions, respectively as a web editor and producer in Bosnia & Herzegovina and as a spokesperson in Georgia, she has acquired solid experience in the field of confidence building and conflict transformation. Read More
Dedicated and focused, Ann knows exactly what results she wants to achieve. It is largely thanks to EUREKA! Communications that the Tbilisi Photo Festival has found a fresh impulse, additional partners and a new direction.
Through the Special Prize for Peace Journalism and other similar initiatives, Ann encouraged media representatives in the South Caucasus – including myself – to give their coverage of the various conflicts affecting our region a more pluralistic, balanced spin. To anyone who needs support for confidence-building events involving media, I would definitely recommend to work with Ann and EUREKA! Communications.
Ann is an outstanding professional. Don’t expect to give her a long and detailed briefing, as she will have understood the challenge you’re facing in a flash of a second. She’s sharp, well organized, and she delivers on time with perfect quality. Her profound knowledge of the Balkans and the Caucasus is a major added value in our work context.
I worked extensively with Ann on several projects and I can definitely recommend her expertise and skills. She is a creative and energetic professional who will give the right spin to your projects.
I worked with Ann on a complex journalism and communications project involving professionals from 14 European countries. Her grasp of communications issues and modern journalism, combined with her dedication and efficiency, were impressive. Ann appreciates, understands and is very good at networking. She’s simply an outstanding communications professional whom I’d be very happy to work with again.
I have known Ann for more than a decade and have always been impressed with her skill and professionalism, even in her graduate student days. To be in her care is to be in good hands.
I have worked with Ann on one of our workshops gathering young journalists from across the South Caucasus and I was absolutely compelled by her ability to analyze an issue quickly and thoroughly, make a decision and work hard to bring it to life.
Ann is a specialist in confidence-building and conflict-sensitive reporting. I have witnessed her training young reporters and making presentations, and I can only say that I’m looking forward to the opportunity to work with her again.