Finding the right partners to build a consortium for EU project is easier said than done. Whether you have a specific call in mind or you want to first build your partnerships, there are going to be a lot of difficulties. Building a partnership without a purpose is simply not going to flourish.
At the same time finding partners for a specific call or calls that you might be interested in is hard, usually, because you might not know exactly where to look for them or if the potential partners you will find might be interested in the call. And of course, even if they are interested, you will not be able to tell whether they are the right partners for you.
The safest way to go about this is to try to find partners based on the calls you are interested, of course. The potential partners that will declare their interest will, at least, be able to bring something in the project. This is a great starting point.
The eucalls.net platform offers you the ability to find those partners based on the calls that you might be interested in. At the same time, you have the option of actually being the person declaring interest in calls, thus giving other potential partners the opportunity to find you and reach out to you.
Entering the strongest consortiums means entering the strongest calls. Those are the calls with the most declares of interest so this is where you will want to start. Here is a list and a few details about the top five calls on the EUcalls platform, at the moment:
1. Peer learning of Innovation agencies - Horizon 2020
Challenge: Innovation support agencies, i.e. the regional and national agencies that design and/or implement innovation support programmes for SMEs are important intermediaries for SME innovation.
2. Key Action 3: Support for the policy reform 2019 (Structured Dialogue) 3rd round - Erasmus+
Key Action 3 provides grants for a wide variety of actions aimed at stimulating innovative policy development, policy dialogue and implementation, and the exchange of knowledge in the fields of education, training, and youth. The majority of them are managed by the EACEA. Most of the actions under KA3 are managed outside the annual general call for proposals.
3. Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes - Horizon 2020
The COFUND scheme aims to stimulate regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in researchers' training, mobility and career development, spreading the best practices of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. This will be achieved by co-funding new or existing regional, national, and international programmes to open up to, and provide for, international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research training, as well as transnational and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career.
4. Civil Society Projects 2019-Europe for Citizens
This measure aims at supporting projects promoted by transnational partnerships and networks directly involving citizens. Those projects gather citizens from different horizons, in activities directly linked to Union policies, with a view to give them an opportunity to actively participate in the Union policymaking process in areas related to the objectives of the Programme.
When one important call closes, another one will take its place. You will always have the opportunity to declare your interest in the calls that will suit your organization the most. By creating your eucalls.net profile and by submitting all the necessary data to complete your profile, you will become visible to your potential partners and will make it obvious that yours is a trustworthy organization with a lot of potentials.
This is what you are looking for from a partner and this is what partners will be looking for, from you. Declare your interest today, search for the partners that did the same and start your EU partnership now!
