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Their core work

This private company operates as a EURAXESS service center in North Macedonia, providing practical support to researchers seeking careers and funding across Europe. Their core work involves helping scientists navigate researcher mobility, job markets, and grant opportunities — essentially acting as a local gateway into the pan-European research ecosystem. They have delivered services under the EURAXESS network for over seven years, contributing to two consecutive phases of the EU's flagship researcher support program. Beyond mobility, their more recent work has expanded to address gender equity in research careers and the social integration of internationally mobile researchers.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their first project (TOP III, 2015–2018), the focus was squarely on the core EURAXESS offer: researcher mobility, career development, gender, and jobs and funding information. The second project (TOP IV, 2018–2022) retained all of these but layered on two new dimensions — social integration of mobile researchers and engagement with industry — suggesting a deliberate expansion beyond administrative career support toward broader societal and economic impact. The shift also moved from enhancing existing services to optimizing and opening up the entire network infrastructure, indicating a more systemic role within the EURAXESS ecosystem.

This organization is deepening its position as a full-service EURAXESS node, moving from basic mobility support toward industry engagement and social integration — a direction that mirrors EU policy priorities around open science and talent circulation.

How they like to work

This organization has never led an H2020 project — both participations are as a network node within large, multi-country consortia. With 46 partners across 39 countries, these are among the broadest consortia in the H2020 portfolio, reflecting the pan-European structure of the EURAXESS program rather than bilateral partnership choices. Working with them means engaging with an established network participant that understands large-consortium logistics, reporting, and service delivery within EU coordination frameworks.

They have collaborated with 46 unique partners across 39 countries — an unusually wide footprint for an organization of this size, explained by the pan-European and international scope of the EURAXESS network projects. Their connections span virtually all EU member states plus associated and candidate countries.

What sets them apart

As one of the very few private-sector EURAXESS nodes in North Macedonia, this organization occupies a specific and largely uncontested niche: researcher support and mobility services for the Western Balkans region. For any consortium that needs credible coverage of North Macedonia — particularly in social, education, or researcher-policy projects — they are the natural choice. Their seven-year, uninterrupted presence in the EURAXESS program also signals institutional reliability in a region where EU project experience is less common.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EURAXESS TOP IV
  The larger and more recent of the two projects (EUR 42,848, running to 2022), it marks their evolution into network-level optimization and industry engagement, and represents their most current active mandate within the European researcher mobility infrastructure.
• EURAXESS TOP III
  Their entry into H2020 funding and the project that established their role as a recognized node in the pan-European EURAXESS network, covering 39 countries and 46 consortium partners.