Rebecca Zammit is the Head of the EU Projects department at AcrossLimits. An avid Taylor Swift fan, life-long Europhile and strong believer in the community impact of EU projects, she has been in the EU projects world since 2016.
Where It All Began
Much of who Rebecca is can be directly traced to the opportunities afforded to her through the EU, something which she does not take lightly. She first set her sights on studying European Studies for her O’Level aged 12, on the vague notion that it could lead to future travel. She went on to get a BA in European Studies, an MA in European Public Affairs, and studying and doing an internship abroad through EU-funded schemes.
She also spent her student life immersed in EU-oriented extracurriculars, thanks to which she made lifelong friends and developed skills that she still finds useful (including coming up with truly terrible EU puns). It was at this point that she had her first taste of EU projects, as part of a student pro-EU NGO that implemented two Erasmus+ youth policy dialogues. It was love at first project, and she retains a soft spot for Erasmus+ and its impact on millions of people.
Rebecca presenting an Erasmus+ project in 2017, aged 20 – alongside our AcrossLimits’ own Senior Technical Writer, Daniel. Source: EUAA on Flickr
After graduating, she wanted to continue working in EU projects, seeing it as a way to give back and help extend the opportunities provided to her through the EU to others. Prior to AcrossLimits, she worked at a state agency where she supported non-profit making entities to identify relevant funding opportunities, and provided hands-on support in writing their funding applications and during the implementation of their EU-funded projects.
Role at AcrossLimits
Rebecca joined AcrossLimits as a Project Manager in 2022, and is now responsible for overseeing AcrossLimits’ ongoing EU-funded projects and contracts, ensuring that they are moving smoothly, deadlines are met, and that the work produced by the company is of a high quality. She assigns and monitors project teams, making sure that AcrossLimits continues being a reputable and trustworthy partner on the European stage.
Being in the Projects team at AcrossLimits means having to be adaptable and a problem solver, switching from one thing to another multiple times a day, and requires a healthy amount of people skills. No two days are ever the same, and it certainly keeps the job interesting!
As a project manager herself, she leads AcrossLimits’ involvement in a number of projects, which currently includes WINBLUE and EYE-TEACH. Her favourite type of projects are those having an equality or educational dimension – for her, it is a privilege to be able to make a positive contribution towards the advancement of EU values.
Embracing the AcrossLimits way of life
One of the many things Rebecca enjoys most about life at AcrossLimits is that the job is remote. She takes full (some might say excessive) advantage of it all and is always on the go, to the detriment of her long-suffering friends living abroad who provide her with accommodation.
Even her colleagues are not safe from Rebecca’s travel bug. With staff based across several European islands, it can be rare to get the chance to meet up. Not letting the minor inconvenience of distance stop her, Rebecca has just returned from a multi-country trip, amongst which she visited AcrossLimits’ senior writer Daniel in Ireland, met up with Head of EU Proposal Writing, Alex, in Brussels, as well as took a day-trip to Bruges with two of her Projects team colleagues, Maria Elena and Melisa, who were there for a project meeting. Not done yet, she finished off her mini-European tour by hopping on over to Cyprus for her first ever visit to the “Cypriot Contingent” (our very own Senfer, Alim, Melisa, Senay and Cansev).
Life Outside AcrossLimits
When not at an airport, Rebecca enjoys reading,sketching, turning her house into a candle-lit fire hazard, and has recently started learning how to paint. Over the past four months she has collected approximately 276 photos of flowers and she swears she’s going to paint all of them at some point…
