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Welcome
On the following pages you will find information about Future Match 2005. Information about Future Match 2006 will be avialable from December 2005.
With over 6,100 exhibitors and nearly 500,000 visitors in 2004, CeBIT is the world's largest Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) fair.
Since 1999, a partnering event has taken place every year at CeBIT, organised by a core group of Innovation Relay Centres (IRCs) with the aim of helping European start-ups, SMEs and laboratories in the ICT sector initiate transnational technological partnerships.
To achieve this goal, we collect descriptions of technologies offered or sought by innovative European companies in the ICT sector, we compile them into an on-line catalogue for participants to browse through, participants tell us which profiles they are interested in, we organise one-to-one meetings for them on our stand during the CeBIT fair.
In 2004, 465 companies from 29 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland) submitted 479 profiles describing technologies they were offering or seeking. Over the 5 days of the brokerage event, approximately 534 meetings took place.
Encouraged by this success, the CeBIT fair organisers have decided to again support the organising IRCs in 2005 to enable exhibitors and visitors to take advantage of Europe's largest technology transfer organisation - the IRC network.
IRC Future Match 2005 is the ideal environment for:
- small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), offering and / or looking for new technologies
- scientists / research institutes offering innovative RTD results
- start-up companies and entrepreneurs
The forum will bring together suppliers and users of technology and know-how from all over Europe to discuss solutions and new opportunities for the future. Potential participants will be invited from 30 European countries, including Eastern Europe, the Baltic states and Israel and Chile.
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