Here you will find a list of places to find partners. Hover over and click on the icons below.
Horizon Funding & Tenders Portal
Find partners for your project ideas among the organisations registered in the Funding & Tenders portal of the European Commission. Enter a keyword or a topic of a past call for proposals, for finding related organisations. Search by geographical criteria or by types of organisation. Search by call topics where organisations have participated or expressed interest in participating in the future. Find out more
Brokerage Events
Ideal-ist, the network of Horizon Europe Cluster 4 digital National Contact Points, in cooperation with the Enterprise Europe Network often organises brokerage events with pre-arranged Face2Face meetings.
Profiles and ICT expertise, innovation offers and innovation requests are always available as a database full of powerful information.
Check out the latest brokerage event(s):
- Digital 2023 – over 1000 partners, 500 project cooperation and expertise offers on the marketplace
Information days and Relevant Events
Information days and relevant events offer an excellent opportunity for featuring your project ideas and identifying cooperation partners for upcoming funding opportunities offered by the EU's Horizon Europe Programme in information and communication technologies and their application areas. The information days will cover the priorities and main aspects of the calls for proposals, evaluation and award process, and will also give tips on how to prepare submit a successful proposal.
Digital Innovation Ecosystems
Are you looking for a faster and easier way to get involved in Horizon Europe and the European research and innovation ecosystem?
Many running projects offer funding opportunities for innovative ideas embedded in dynamic digital ecosystems. In addition, these initiatives offer access to facilities and competence centers to help you experiment with the latest digital technologies.
Find out more on our Other Funding Sources
Relevant Stakeholders Group
Different stakeholders groups and forums may guide you in the identification of the activities and related target groups relevant for your proposal. Find partners for your project ideas and check the latest documents developed by the different stakeholders forums! Find out more:
- SNS Partnership –
Brokerage platform - EU Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, Data and Robotics
- Big Data Value Association – BDVA profiles
- Chips JU – ECS collaboration tool
- Photonics21
- EURobotics – SPARC
- High Performance Computing JU – ETP4HPC networking
- European Cyber Security Organisation – ECSO
- European Factories of the Future Research Association – EFFRA
- The Alliance for the Internet of Things Innovation – AIOTI
- The AI4EU on-demand platform - AI4EU
* The current edition of the Partner Search Facilitation service is based on the APIs of the participant portal. Ideal-ist is actively pursuing the inclusion of other services.
The Ideal-ist Horizon Europe Cluster 4 digital NCP network facilitates access to funding opportunities of European Framework Programmes and the communities actively engaged in Information and Communication Technologies and their application areas. Ideal-ist offers a Partner Search Facilitation service: a one-stop-shop linking to all online partner search forums. The service offers search features for partner searches that are available for online republication.*
With this service, Ideal-ist increases the visibility of digital research ideas in Europe and optimizes networking among research organisations, universities, industry, public authorities, and end users.