Success Stories from our Global network

“Crowdhelix helped us to find two valuable partners for our Horizon Europe proposal. They are from both academia and industry, demonstrating the variety of stakeholders that are available on the platform. The Crowdhelix team are also helpful and interested in supporting the success of the network's members.”

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

"Many thanks to Crowdhelix, and in particular, Ger Hanley, for supporting Kadir Has in the submission and now award of a large-scale WIDERA project under Horizon Europe. This project will significantly raise the profile, network and capacity of Kadir Has and Turkey in the area of Gender and Women Studies."

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

The Crowdhelix platform has helped us to establish multiple connections with excellent organisations from across Europe over the last couple of years. Most recently we have been awarded a MSCA Staff Exchanges project coordinated by a Crowdhelix member from Turkey. I would very much recommend the platform to anyone who is looking to diversify their networks and build impactful collaborative partnerships.

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

Our proposal to the MSCA-COFUND call was recently accepted for funding. With this project, we will host 20 post-doctoral researchers here at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey over the next 5 years. These researchers will get the opportunity to pursue research in the field of Green and Blue Transition. This would not have been possible without the support of Crowdhelix! Thanks go to the Crowdhelix team who facilitated the transformation of an idea into a winning proposal.

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

"Many thanks to the Crowdhelix network for helping us to facilitate and submit a MSCA COFUND application in Biomedical Technologies. I am delighted to report that this proposal has now been funded by the European Commission. This prestigious award will help Izmir Institute of Technology to further enhance its profile, connectivity and capacity in Biomedical Technologies at regional and international level. Many thanks to Crowdhelix for their network's support in helping us secure this excellent award."

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

"After we posted our interest in building a consortium for one of the upcoming Horizon Europe Cluster 2 calls on the Crowdhelix platform, we received numerous messages from universities across Europe interested in collaborating with us. I am pleased to report that last month we submitted a proposal focused on the role of perceptions shaping European societies together with four other Crowdhelix members. Many thanks to the Crowdhelix Network for helping us to connect with excellent institutions in the UK, Netherlands, Portugal, and Israel."

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

"After disclosing on the Crowdhelix platform my interest in finding partners for a Horizon Europe proposal in multi-party computation, data anonymization, and synthetic data, many relevant organizations reached out to me. We invited two of those organizations (one from the UK and another one from Turkey), which were of great importance to creating a strong consortium. I will certainly keep using Crowdhelix to identify further cooperation opportunities.”

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

"Earlier this year we were developing a project idea focused on detecting & imaging microparticles in the ocean & were urgently looking for an underwater acoustics expert. After our search was posted on Crowdhelix we were quickly contacted by several organisations with relevant expertise. I am pleased to confirm that we submitted a proposal for the EIC Pathfinder Open call with Crowdhelix and one of their SME members that contacted us through the platform. Many thanks to Crowdhelix for helping us put this excellent consortium together & supporting the impact acceleration part of our proposal."

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

"Through the Crowdhelix platform, Farplas was able to connect with an NTNU led consortium focused on the CL4 call for tackling gender, race and other biases in AI. This proposal was successfully submitted in October 2021 and funded in March of 2022. This excellent connection and subsequent success was made possible through our engagement as members of Crowdhelix. We currently have one further proposal pending evaluation following connections made through the platform and have fingers crossed for another good result."

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

"Following my post on the Crowdhelix platform, I was contacted by a number of organisations interested in teaming up and targeting a Farm2Fork call focused on food traceability. I am pleased to report that we invited four of these organisations to join our consortium and submitted the proposal together last month. Many thanks to Crowdhelix for connecting me to excellent collaborators in Italy, Spain, Slovenia and Israel."

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