Crowdhelix is an open innovation platform that forges links between an international network of excellent researchers and innovative companies, enabling them to plan, deliver, and exploit pioneering collaborative projects and value chains. As Europe’s leading impact acceleration partner, Crowdhelix offers a unique networking, clustering and value chain creation platform managed by Impact management experts from across Europe and beyond.

The platform employs an interactive approach called the “Helix Impact Model,” which facilitates the dissemination, exploitation, and communication within EU-funded research projects. Each Helix is designed to bring together experts, RTOs, SMEs, policy makers, and other relevant actors for collaboration and impact in research and innovation. Helix communities enhance collaboration among different stakeholders along the value chain of the most pressing topics and technologies, allowing adaptation to various scientific and innovative fields, and boosting different ecosystems in the open innovation landscape.

The Helixes are a crucial component of Crowdhelix’s three-step Impact Acceleration Approach, which includes stakeholder analysis, matchmaking and clustering, profiling and connecting innovation to global end-users. This is achieved by using a machine learning driven ‘recommender engine,’ to match collaborative partnerships. Crowdhelix currently hosts 54 active Helixes where users can profile themselves, their teams, their organisations, and post opportunities to collaborate. An intelligent recommender system then matches these opportunities with the most suitable prospective collaborators, using natural language processing and machine-learning.

Any researcher, student or expert of an organisation that is already a member of the Crowdhelix Network and has a valid email domain provided by their organisation can register, post about collaborating, or connect with other organisations searching for expertise in different areas of research. Users can proactively post and respond to collaboration opportunities within the Helixes, and target specific Horizon Europe funding calls drawn directly from the EU’s database. In that sense, Crowdhelix makes it easy for diverse businesses, universities, and research organisations to find common ground, and forge strong partnerships so they can develop competitive project concepts and proposals targeting Horizon Europe funding.

The platform’s emphasis on impact and sustainability has led to the development of groundbreaking technologies and solutions across various sectors. Crowdhelix has facilitated numerous successful projects, bringing together top-tier researchers and industry leaders to tackle complex challenges.

Being a global collaboration platform for researchers and innovators, Crowdhelix’s members have collectively been awarded over €11.79 billion of funding under the EU Horizon programmes, to deliver 22,246+ pioneering projects. Learn more about successes that Crowdhelix has been able to facilitate on their outcomes page as linked here.

In addition, Crowdhelix delivers over 40 sector leading live and virtual events per year. Attending Crowdhelix events allows researchers, experts and students to focus on research and innovation domains and discover new opportunities and partnerships, as well as enabling connections with other expert members of Crowdhelix.  Looking to the future, Crowdhelix plans to broaden its network and improve its services to support even more ambitious and impactful projects. The platform is set to be a pivotal player in the continuous evolution of the European research and innovation ecosystem, driving progress and delivering value to all stakeholders involved.