Open Calls
061-025 Regional Online Matchmaking Platform for Research & Innovation Infrastructures
Date: 13 AUGUST 2025 Deadline: 08 SEPTEMBER 2025
The RCC is looking for a specialized technology firms, consortia or joint ventures, accredited academic institutions, and recognized academic technology infrastructures to create and maintain a Regional Online Matchmaking Platform for Research & Innovation Infrastructures. The Platform will offer targeted support to enhance cooperation among research organisations, higher education institutions, individual researchers, businesses, governments, and civil society in the Western Balkans.
Once operational, a publicly accessible Platform will (1) feature comprehensive profiles of infrastructures and entities, (2) help increase the utilisation and awareness of regional innovation assets and (3) offer operational matchmaking functionality to facilitate cross-regional collaboration.
The consultancy aims to support the activities undertaken by the RCC in the framework of the implementation of the Common Regional Market Action Plan 2025-2028 (CRM 2.0). The CRM 2.0’s Human Capital Development pillar seeks to foster the growth of a regional innovation ecosystem by supporting innovation-related initiatives and enhancing workforce skills.