Enterprise Europe Network

The Enterprise Europe Network offers comprehensive support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in accessing and applying for various EU funding programmes. These programmes are pivotal for businesss engaged in research, innovation, and development projects, particularly those aimed at enhancing European leadership in a rapidly changing global context and achieving the EU's strategic autonomy goals.Enterprise Europe Network's expertise lies in helping companies transform high-quality research into market-ready innovations. They offer a wealth of resources to assist in profiling Europe's best research and supporting breakthrough technologies to enter European markets. Understanding that access to funding alone is not sufficient, the Network adopts a holistic approach, providing a wide range of advice, effective partner search, and high-quality support for EU funding along the entire journey from research to innovation to markets. IDEA StatiCa is transforming the way engineers approach structural analysis. Paving the way for safer and more efficient construction worldwide, IDEA StatiCa has evolved from a Czech start-up into a global leader with the support of the Enterprise Europe Network. When Latvian laboratory equipment manufacturer ELMI was hit with high energy prices and uncertain supply chains during the past few years, they decided to innovate their way out of the crisis. Enterprise Europe Network helped them to do so. IDloop is revolutionising biometrics with its contactless 3D high-resolution fingerprint imaging technology. Their partnership with Enterprise Europe Network secured crucial funding, expanded their team, and paved the way for global success. Slovenian company BioSistemika worked with the Enterprise Europe Network to prepare for the EIC Accelerator call for proposals and succeeded in receiving a grant of €1.8 million from the European Commission.