1.6 Building the Consortium Example

Here is a real-life example of an international consortium. As you can see, we are looking at a very well-balanced consortium composed of R&D organisations, academic institutions and private industrial companies. Each of them have their own role and specific tasks to be executed through the project.

The consortium is particularly strong thanks to multiple factors:

The presence of the appropriate private for-profit organisations such as large industries and/or small businesses constitutes a matter of “life or death” in grants with a commercial “go-to-market” purpose.

The partners come from different geographical areas.

There are clear roles and distinct expertise among the partners such as product design and development, lab research and prototyping, industrial pilots and testing in a real world scenario, business planning and commercialisation preparedness, and promotion and marketing.

The “Project Coordinator” is a worldwide known R&D institution and highly experienced in grant writing and technical and administrative management of international projects.