CONFEDERACION EMPRESARIAL DE MADRID

Their core work

CEIM is Madrid's main employers' confederation — a business association representing companies across the Madrid region. Within H2020, they operate as part of the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), delivering innovation support services to SMEs: coaching, innovation management guidance, and help navigating EU funding instruments like the SME Instrument, FET Open, and FTI. Their role is bridging the gap between EU funding opportunities and the region's small businesses that lack capacity to access them independently.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their earlier projects (2015-2018), CEIM focused narrowly on coaching and innovation support through the Enterprise Europe Network, primarily helping SMEs access the SME Instrument. From 2019 onward, their scope broadened significantly to encompass a wider portfolio of EU funding programmes — FET Open, FTI, and COSME — suggesting they evolved from a single-programme support node into a more comprehensive EU funding advisory service for the Madrid business community.

CEIM is expanding from narrow SME Instrument coaching toward broader EU programme advisory, making them a more versatile regional gateway for businesses seeking any type of EU innovation funding.

How they like to work

CEIM always participates as a partner, never as coordinator — consistent with their role as a regional business association contributing local SME networks and industry reach to larger initiatives. Their consortium is small (7 unique partners) and entirely domestic (Spain only), indicating they operate as a local delivery node within nationally coordinated EEN-type projects rather than as an independent EU project builder.

CEIM's H2020 network is compact and entirely Spain-based, with 7 unique consortium partners across 4 projects. This reflects their function as a regional node in nationally coordinated innovation support programmes rather than a cross-border collaboration builder.

What sets them apart

CEIM's value lies in its direct access to Madrid's business community as the region's main employers' confederation. For EU projects needing to reach Spanish SMEs — whether for technology uptake, dissemination, or pilot recruitment — CEIM offers an established channel to companies that would otherwise be hard to engage. They are not a research or technology organization; their strength is business network access and SME mobilization.

Highlights from their portfolio

• INNMADRIMASD5
  Most recent iteration (2020-2021) covering the broadest scope of EU programmes, showing the matured version of their innovation support model.
• INNMADRIMASD 2
  First H2020 project (2015) establishing CEIM's role in the Enterprise Europe Network with explicit coaching and innovation support mandate.