Finding European Partners

The CORDIS website features an advanced electronic partner search engine . You can search by research interest, target country, and many other queries. You will find a list of potential partners in your area – either researchers who are already involved in an FP7 funded project, or researchers looking for associate partners to join them. The site lists all the contact information and the database is extensive.

Canadians can also add their own profiles to the “partner search engines.” Europeans frequently use them to find partners for international projects. International participation is required for all funding from the European Commission.

There are several other extensive partner search engines for finding European partners:

Informal Group of national R&D Liaison Offices based in Brussels:
IGLO Partner Search 

EUREKA: A pan-European network for market-oriented industrial research serving businesses, research centres and universities:
Project Search 

Intnernational Network for Small and Medium sized Enterprises:
INSME Partner Search

“Partner search engines” covering specific fields are operated by the following organizations:

IDEAL-IST serves ICT companies and research organisations searching for partners for a participation in FP7.

IST-EC 2 is a joint Canada-Europe project whose objective is to connect the European and Canadian research communities in key areas of the Information Society Technologies (IST): IST-EC2 Partner Search