Singleimage is the UK member of the Ideal-ist consortium, which helps find partners for proposers to the ICT Programme. The consortium is supported by the European Commission and has representatives in every country participating in the ICT Programme, including Central and Eastern Europe. The Ideal-IST consortium has over 50,000 contacts interested in the ICT Programme. More can be reached through Chambers of Commerce and Trade Associations.

Experience with the 1st Call of Framework 7 under the ICT Priority shows that a search will attract on average 42 potential partners.  Often replies are received within a few days - or even hours - of starting the search. 71% of the partner searches received by Ideal-ist submitted a proposal to ICT Call1.  And of them 87% included partners found using Ideal-ist partner search.  Ideal-ist partner searches found over 10% of the UK partners included in proposals to ICT Call 1.

If you have a project idea and want to find partners, please first register on the Ideal-ist website and then complete the partner search form (found on their site). This will then be circulated throughout the Ideal-ist network all over Europe.  Very quickly, you will be contacted by interested organisations.

Organisations thoughout Europe will be seeking partners for consortia over the next twelve months. If you wish to be contacted concerning these searches, register your interest on our partner database form . Here you can indicate your areas of interest. It takes only two minutes to complete the form - one minute for your name and address, one minute to tick a few boxes.  Submit the form to us, and we will send you partner searches in your area of interest as they arrive.

The Ideal-ist project also attends a number of events where you have the opportunity to meet with us to discuss your partnering needs.

Please find the international Ideal-ist website here http://www.ideal-ist.eu.

The Ideal-ist project is part-funded by the European Commission under its IST Priority. Any opinions expressed on this web page are those of the author/organisation and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Community.