Find the EU Project, Partner, or Funding Lead Already Working on Your Problem
European projects, partners, and funding opportunities exist for almost every problem an SME runs into, but the information sits scattered across project websites, institutional pages, and funding repositories. MDC puts that search in one place, so a small company can go from a technical question to a relevant project or partner in minutes.
Challenge
SMEs often need access to European projects and innovation networks to support growth, solve technical problems, or open up new funding opportunities. That information usually exists, but it is scattered across project websites, institutional pages, and funding repositories that were never designed to be searched together. As a result, small companies struggle to quickly find useful projects, potential partners, or ideas worth turning into a proposal.
Solution
An SME can search the MDC catalogue for relevant European projects, datasets, publications, events, and success stories, using the search bar, filtering results by category or platform, and saving useful assets for later review rather than losing track of them across browser tabs.
An SME looking to improve its product with AI, for example, can search for projects that have already developed similar technologies, methods, or datasets. Reviewing those project descriptions shows what innovation already exists in the space and surfaces concrete ideas for product development, instead of starting from a blank page.
Benefits
Search EU Projects Like You’d Search Anything Else
One search bar and a set of filters replace the need to check project websites, institutional pages, and funding repositories one by one.
See What’s Already Been Built Before You Build It
Reviewing existing project descriptions shows what technologies, methods, and datasets already exist in a space before committing to build something similar from scratch.
Save Promising Leads for Later
Useful projects, datasets, and success stories can be saved for review rather than getting lost the moment the search session ends.
Spot Partners with Matching Expertise
Discovering organisations connected to relevant projects turns a resource search into a shortlist of potential collaborators.
Turn a Search into a Funding Application
Identifying relevant projects and matching organisations in minutes gives an SME a running start on product development, problem-solving, and future European funding applications.
