COMPERA developed the website www.competence-research-centres.eu . This website gives you an overview over the location and thematic orientation of over 300 Competence Research Centres in Europe. A user-friendly search technology allows you to figure out, to take some examples, which centres in Production Technologies are active in Sweden, whom to contact if you are looking for a cooperation partner for Life Sciences projects in Estonia or whether centres with similar thematic orientation are active on both sides of the border between Austria and Slovenia.

But searching for Competence Research Centres is only one of the services the website offers you. In addition, you will find:

• a news services bringing to you up to date news from the Competence Research Centres and the programmes behind them,
• information on upcoming events and conferences, and
• research and innovation highlights of the Competence Research Centres.

A specific focus of the website is to inform the Competence Research Centres and their partners about funding possibilities for cross-border projects. Accordingly you will find well-structured information about EU programmes and a service providing you with the latest calls of the EC.