About Bent Egebart
Director and innovation expert whys ApS, experienced EU adviser, trained academy engineering.
Phone: +45 5050 2751, eMail: bent@whyse.dk 
Core Competencies
• Innovation and development in companies
• Consultant Helping businesses with their EU applications
• Large European network (has worked with 31 countries through more than 8 years)
• Insight into current EU 7th Framework Programme (helped make the 5th)
• Evaluation of EU projects (evaluated international projects for the EU in more than 10 years)
• Course
• Project Controls
- Consortia
- Control of international projects
- Moderator (create consensus among partners)
My background
Two letter combinations form the common thread in my career: the EU and IT.
I have been employed within the EU for over 20 years and has most of my career has been associated with IT issues and the use of IT.
Today I manage my own business whys Ltd. with 5 employees. I specialize in advising companies on EU applications, innovation and IT.
I am a qualified electrical engineer, and worked, like most other engineers with engineering the first several years. (1973-1985)
After several years of having been Development, I took a walk past the Technology Agency, which in late 1980 launched the Danish IT-TUP program. Here I was attached to the planning group that would coordinate the consumption of 1.5 billion. DKK in Denmark (1985-1986).
The money was never spent, but I had become aware that the EU had some programs that shared money to companies if they came with exciting new ideas.
So I took to the EU capital Brussels. Actually it was only on a contract for a half year, but since I was there, why not seek a permanent position? (1986)
It did well enough a half years to get through trials and tests, but the result was an appointment. Here they discovered quickly that I was used to guide development, and I took over all development of IT program ESPRIT (1986-1991).
After 5 years the dangers of becoming EU functionary imminent, so I quit and went home. Now I had worked for so many years that I felt it was time to start my own company up (1991 -).
As I said then done. Back in Denmark was my first customer Business Affairs, which sent me back Brussels. Now just as a Danish member of the Management Committee, ESPRIT Management Committee, which formeldt stood for control of the ESPRIT program. ESPRIT is donating 1 million. euro to a Cern project with someone now called Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, who fully developed the World Wide Web Protocol "html" (1996).
It was my feeling that now began an industrial revolution, and I started IT company ColorWeb, together with Mads Tarstup (1996).
ColorWeb and European advisory went parallel for many years until in 2006 when everything was assembled under the name of whys. The name is pronounced as "wise" (knowledge) and contains the interrogative Why (why). This emphasizes the core values of knowledge and curiosity.
