Success Stories from our Global network

“Thanks to Crowdhelix's ability to link people from different organisations and identifying suitable opportunities, we’re now part of the TIME4CS consortium. Crowdhelix has demonstrated its power in creating successful links for EU Research and Innovation funding. I am very much looking forward to future collaborations and links that will come through Crowdhelix.”

Professor Fazilet Vardar, Director of SUNUM-Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research Center

"Crowdhelix's matchmaking events have proven to be very meaningful to me as a consortium coordinator. I would not have been able to find the partners I need without their Horizon Europe Cluster 2 session in London this Summer. As a result of this international session, we'll be submitting a proposal for an upcoming CL2 deadline in 2026."

Professor Fazilet Vardar, Director of SUNUM-Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research Center

"Connections made at one of Crowdhelix's 2025 Horizon Europe matchmaking events directly led to the ACU joining a consortium for HORIZON-CL5-2025-03-D1-07: Implementing the climate action pillar of the EU-AU partnership on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy. A proposal was successfully submitted in September, 2025 that includes the ACU as a work package leader. Crowdhelix's events have been a powerful tool for creating new and diverse networks for the ACU to build upon. We look forward to future connections and submission of this kind."

Professor Fazilet Vardar, Director of SUNUM-Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research Center

Crowdhelix has been instrumental in forging successful R&D collaborations for my company Digiotouch. Special thanks to Crowdhelix for facilitating the connection between Digiotouch and NTNU who invited us to join a consortium, resulting in the funded BIAS project under the Horizon Europe call HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-24.

Professor Fazilet Vardar, Director of SUNUM-Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research Center

Many thanks to Crowdhelix for helping my team and I contribute towards the preparation and submission of a large-scale international collaborative network (led by Birmingham University) to produce systemic, end-to-end, solutions that protect environmental and human health from persistent and mobile chemicals. Crowdhelix's work in the proposal was particularly useful in the area of impact acceleration and designing clustering activities.

Professor Fazilet Vardar, Director of SUNUM-Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research Center

I would like to thank Crowdhelix for helping me to connect with a prospective collaborator following a post I made on the platform in response to the Green Deal call. This post was subsequently matched and ultimately resulted in my organisation joining a consortium of 26 partners across Europa and Africa jointly submitting a funding application. We now await the full results from the European Commission. Many thanks to Crowdhelix for helping to facilitate this part of the match-making process.

Professor Fazilet Vardar, Director of SUNUM-Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research Center

As a direct result from working with Crowdhelix, IBM Ireland, along with UCL and UK-based SME Yaqrit, won a €6 million project from Horizon 2020 which was funded in 2017.

Professor Fazilet Vardar, Director of SUNUM-Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research Center

"The Pathfinder Helix webinar was almost perfect for me. I always had questions on communication and dissemination activities, management of intellectual property in the projects related to the technologies at low TRL (up to TRL4). Most of them were answered and I noted some important insights for the future."

Professor Fazilet Vardar, Director of SUNUM-Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research Center

"We are very pleased to have recently joined the Crowdhelix Open Innovation Network. In fact it only took 2 weeks for us to be profiled and matched to a Horizon Europe coordinator, and we are now in our first consortium facilitated by Crowdhelix. We look forward to engaging more in the platform, raising our profile and connecting our skills and capabilities with world leading research organisations and innovative companies."

Professor Fazilet Vardar, Director of SUNUM-Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research Center

"My expertise was matched to a collaboration opportunity posted by one of the Crowdhelix members from Ireland. After a quick exchange on the Crowdhelix platform, I was invited to join a proposal on sustainable food systems. I am pleased to confirm that we submitted the proposal in the summer and are now awaiting the results. Many thanks to the Crowdhelix team for flagging this opportunity to me and facilitating the connection."

Professor Fazilet Vardar, Director of SUNUM-Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research Center