22/10/2026
Who will pay for your project website when the funding ends?
A project website may be delivered on time, meet the agreed design requirements and publish all the expected results. Yet its future can remain unresolved.
Who will pay for hosting and maintenance? Who will update the software, manage access and keep project results available?
This is more than a technical question. Some European funding programmes require projects to plan for the sustainability of their results. Certain programme agreements also specify how long a project website must remain available after completion.
The requirements differ. What matters is identifying them before the website is commissioned.
The solution starts during project planning.
The consortium needs to establish what must remain online, for how long, who will be responsible and how ongoing costs will be covered.
Those decisions should inform the website specification, content structure and maintenance arrangements from the beginning. Otherwise, the project may finish with a functioning website but no agreed way to look after it.
How Soinikova Digital can help.
We examine the relevant project requirements and translate them into a practical website scope.
Our work can cover website structure and development, accessibility considerations, arrangements for updating project and results pages, and a maintenance plan suited to the organisation's resources.
If your consortium is planning a project website, we can help define what needs to be built, maintained and budgeted for.
Explore our Website Development service at soinikova.digital.