CAMARA OFICIAL DE COMERCIO INDUSTRIA Y SERVICIOS DE MADRID

Their core work

The Madrid Chamber of Commerce is a public body that delivers innovation support services to SMEs across the Madrid region. Through the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), they help small businesses access EU funding instruments like the SME Instrument, FET Open, and FTI, providing coaching and innovation management advisory. Their core function is bridging the gap between EU research programs and local businesses that lack the capacity to navigate these instruments alone.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their early work (2015-2018) focused narrowly on SME Instrument coaching and Enterprise Europe Network innovation services — essentially helping local SMEs prepare proposals for one specific EU funding line. From 2019 onward, their scope broadened significantly to cover multiple EU programs including FET Open, FTI, and COSME, suggesting a shift from single-instrument coaching to comprehensive EU funding advisory. The consistent INNMADRIMASD branding across all four projects indicates an institutionalized, recurring regional program rather than ad-hoc project participation.

Moving from narrow SME Instrument support toward broader EU program advisory covering the full Horizon 2020 and COSME landscape, positioning themselves as a one-stop innovation service point for Madrid SMEs.

How they like to work

They participate exclusively as a partner, never as coordinator, across all four projects — suggesting they operate as a regional delivery node within larger national or European networks. With only 7 unique partners across a single country, their consortium footprint is very small and domestically focused. This indicates a stable, locally embedded partner that contributes regional reach rather than technical expertise or project leadership.

A narrow network of 7 partners confined to a single country (Spain), reflecting their role as a regional EEN delivery partner rather than a pan-European operator. Their partnerships are likely with other Spanish chambers, regional agencies, and EEN nodes.

What sets them apart

As Madrid's official Chamber of Commerce, they offer direct access to the region's SME ecosystem — one of the largest business communities in Southern Europe. For consortium builders, their value is not technical expertise but rather a trusted channel to thousands of SMEs that need innovation services. They are most useful as a dissemination or exploitation partner where reaching Madrid-based businesses is the goal.

Highlights from their portfolio

• INNMADRIMASD5
  The most recent and broadest iteration of their flagship program, covering SME Instrument, FET Open, FTI, and COSME — showing full maturation of their multi-program advisory capability.
• INNMADRIMASD 2
  The earliest project in the series, establishing the Enterprise Europe Network connection and the recurring INNMADRIMASD program that has run continuously since 2015.