ASSOCIACAO NACIONAL DE PESQUISA E DESENVOLVIMENTO DAS EMPRESAS INOVADORAS - ANPEI

Their core work

ANPEI is Brazil's national association representing innovative companies engaged in R&D, acting as an institutional bridge between Brazilian industry and European innovation ecosystems. Their core work is facilitating science-business cooperation: connecting EU research networks with Brazilian companies, opening access to European STI infrastructure, and ensuring Brazilian industry voices are present in international R&D partnerships. In H2020, they operated as a trusted local gateway — first as a bilateral EU-Brazil cooperation hub (CEBRABIC), then as a regional node in the broader ENRICH network spanning all of Latin America and the Caribbean. They do not perform laboratory research; their value is access, institutional credibility, and the ability to mobilise Brazilian companies around European-led research initiatives.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

ANPEI's H2020 journey shows a deliberate scaling from bilateral to regional scope. In their first project (2017-2020), the focus was explicitly on the EU-Brazil corridor — building a centre dedicated to that specific bilateral relationship, with keywords centred on business innovation and the European Union as a distinct counterpart. By their second project (2021-2023), the geographic aperture had widened to all of Latin America and the Caribbean, with CEBRABIC itself becoming a referenced component of the larger ENRICH network. This suggests they moved from being a bilateral access point to becoming an integrated regional node within a growing European innovation infrastructure in the LAC region.

ANPEI is consolidating its position as the Brazilian anchor in a growing EU-funded Latin American innovation infrastructure, making it the natural entry point for European consortia seeking industry-facing access to Brazil or the broader LAC region.

How they like to work

ANPEI always joins as a participant, never as coordinator — consistent with the role of a national industry association that provides access and legitimacy rather than leading project design. Their consortia are moderately sized (11 unique partners across 8 countries), suggesting they operate within well-structured international networks rather than small bilateral arrangements. The fact that CEBRABIC is explicitly cited as a keyword inside ENRICH in LAC indicates they maintain continuity with the same network actors across projects, pointing to a relationship-driven, trust-based collaboration model.

ANPEI has built connections with 11 consortium partners spanning 8 countries, primarily within the EU-LAC cooperation network. Their network is geographically diverse but thematically concentrated — all partners are tied to science-business bridging between Europe and the Americas.

What sets them apart

ANPEI occupies a rare institutional position: they are a nationally recognised Brazilian industry R&D association with demonstrated experience inside EU-funded frameworks, giving them credibility on both sides of the Atlantic. For a European consortium needing a Brazilian partner with private-sector reach — not just a university or public body — ANPEI offers both the institutional mandate and the existing network. Their progression through CEBRABIC into ENRICH in LAC signals that the EU system trusts them with increasing scope, which is a meaningful quality signal for consortium builders.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ENRICH in LAC
  The larger of the two projects (EUR 302,938) and a flagship EU initiative creating a pan-regional innovation hub network across Latin America and the Caribbean, in which ANPEI serves as the Brazilian industry anchor.
• CEBRABIC
  ANPEI's entry into H2020 cooperation, establishing a dedicated EU-Brazil business innovation centre — a project whose outputs directly fed the architecture of the successor ENRICH in LAC network.