Guide

Horizon Europe partner search

Horizon Europe consortia live or die on partner fit: complementary skills, eligible entities, and a credible track record in the call area. Generic networking rarely substitutes for evidence that a team has delivered together before.

Why historical CORDIS data helps

CORDIS records funded projects, participations, coordinators, and topic linkages across programmes. That history is a practical signal for who already operates in your thematic space, who leads consortia, and which organizations repeatedly collaborate. GRANTIBASE surfaces those patterns so you can move from a blank partner list to a shortlist grounded in real participations — not just LinkedIn guesses.

How to run a Horizon Europe–focused search

Start in the Partner Finder with the programme family set to Horizon Europe. Enter a topic or keyword that matches your work programme slice: technology area, disease, policy domain, or method. Add a country filter when you need entities with a specific legal seat or national eligibility story. Use coordinator country and role filters when you want organizations that have led projects from a given geography — a common requirement for balancing consortium leadership.

The results layer typically includes top organizations, coordinator-heavy entities, consortium pairs that appear together often, related funded projects, and pointers toward active opportunities that align with dominant topics in that slice. That combination is designed for proposal preparation, not for academic browsing.

Calls, topics, and next steps

When you already know the call identifier, the calls index and per-call pages summarize who coordinated and partnered under that call code, plus thematic structure. Cross-check always with the official Funding & Tenders Portal for eligibility, budget, and template rules — GRANTIBASEdoes not replace the funder's systems.

If your question is "who coordinates most in this niche?", pair Partner Finder with the Coordinator radar for a coordinator-centric ranking view on similar filters.