EUCLID NETWORK

Their core work

Euclid Network is a London-based membership association that connects social enterprises, civil society organizations, and public sector bodies across Europe. They specialize in building platforms for responsible innovation policy, youth entrepreneurship support, and social investment strategies. Their work centers on coordination and community-building rather than technical research — they bring diverse actors together around shared social and digital policy challenges.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

All three of Euclid Network's H2020 projects launched in 2015, making temporal evolution analysis limited. However, their keyword profile suggests a dual track: one oriented toward institutional policy work (RRI, ICT governance, policy recommendations) and another toward grassroots community activation (student networks, youth entrepreneurship, coordination). With no projects after 2017, their H2020 footprint represents a single concentrated engagement period rather than an evolving trajectory.

Their H2020 activity ended in 2017, so future direction is uncertain — but their consistent focus on social enterprise and youth engagement suggests they may have shifted to other funding instruments or national programs.

How they like to work

Euclid Network has exclusively served as a participant, never as coordinator — consistent with their role as a network facilitator that joins consortia to provide community reach and civil society perspective rather than scientific leadership. Despite only 3 projects, they connected with 32 unique partners across 16 countries, indicating they bring wide geographic access and diverse membership connections to any consortium. They are a connector organization: useful when a project needs civil society engagement, dissemination reach, or policy dialogue infrastructure.

Across just 3 projects, Euclid Network collaborated with 32 unique partners in 16 countries — a remarkably broad network reflecting their role as a pan-European membership association with reach well beyond any single national ecosystem.

What sets them apart

Euclid Network occupies a specific niche as a civil society bridge between social enterprise communities and EU research programs. Unlike research institutes or tech SMEs, they bring an organized membership network of social enterprises and non-profits — valuable for projects needing real-world community engagement, policy co-creation, or dissemination into the social economy sector. For consortium builders, they offer ready access to civil society audiences that academic or industry partners typically cannot reach.

Highlights from their portfolio

• InnoSI
  Largest project by funding (EUR 140K) and the most substantive research engagement — a Research and Innovation Action examining social investment models across European communities.
• RRI-ICT Forum
  Positioned Euclid Network at the intersection of responsible innovation policy and the ICT sector, producing policy recommendations with direct EU relevance.