European
Union Partnering
The current economic situation all over Europe encourages
many companies to think about expanding their targeted market
beyond the regional area - and that’ doesn’t just
mean the industrial heavyweights.
Thanks to the availability of high-performance IT systems and
networks, small companies can also successfully initiate and
launch a high degree of globalisation and extensive virtualisation.
International relationships and projects, particularly when
there is funding available from the European Union, are an exceptionally
good way to enter markets in other European countries.
There are virtually uncounted support programmes, initiatives
and actions including financial interventions in the form of
allowances, subsidies, loans, cofinancing, guaranties, project
requests and theme-support programmes. The 6th master programme
of the European Union with a total budget of 17.5 billion euros
is the main route for financing research and technological development
in Europe for 2002 through 2006.
It specifically defines the targets and priorities including
the criteria for assigning grant funding. The higher-order goal
is creating the basic scientific and technological factors for
boosting international competitiveness in European industry
while promoting next-generation developments.
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European
Grant Programmes
 Since projects from
the European Union are mostly in the area of targeted applications
research and technology in proximity to products right down
to prototype development and pilot applications, the decision
to participate in these projects is of strategic and corporate
significance for each and every company.
But the key decision-making factor is what enterprises participate
in the project in what form. One critical element is the danger
of a loss of knowledge in the company’s core competence.
To prevent this, EIKV supports companies in signing on business
partners that co-operate along the value-added chain.
EIKV is an expert business partner in building project consortiums
by integrating far-reaching aspects of knowledge and value management.
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