Position
Design the strategic contribution case.
Brussels-facing EU Collaboration Corridor
Match your strategic objectives with EU priorities and shape your European presence.
Makeaplan helps innovative non-EU companies understand where their strategic objectives match Europe’s strategic sectors, industrial districts, and value-chain priorities, then enter the collaboration processes that create active presence and visible contribution.
How we activate
Strategic collaboration corridor
We turn policy intelligence into a practical access path: from strategic contribution to project visibility, stakeholder engagement, and co-funded collaboration opportunities.
Prioritize
Select countries, districts, and stakeholder ecosystems.
Validate
Test assumptions with selected local stakeholders and project actors.
Activate
Prepare and accompany strategic stakeholder engagement.
Finance & EU-funded projects
Identify blended-finance routes, EU-funded initiatives, and co-funded collaboration mechanisms.
EU Strategic Collaboration Position
Sector focus, district fit, project pathways, policy relevance, visibility plan, and co-funded collaboration options where useful.
Client support roadmap
From policy fit to active European presence.
A board-level assessment for innovative non-EU companies evaluating whether and how their strategic objectives fit the sectors, value-chain priorities, policy agendas, and project pathways Europe is actively supporting. Your presence in Europe becomes strategic when the fit makes both sides more competitive: your company gains the right collaboration path, while European districts, value chains, and project ecosystems gain a relevant contribution. Makeaplan supports the client before, during, and after access to innovation and co-funded collaboration processes so this contribution becomes visible, useful, and aligned with the partner country’s development.
Provide early visibility into EU policy directions
Monitor current and emerging priorities, funding instruments, and extra-European innovation agendas shaping the sector.
Position the company as a contributor
Turn strategic objectives, assets, and innovation into a contribution proposition for EU stakeholders and project ecosystems.
Select strategic sectors and districts
Map the countries, industrial districts, clusters, agencies, consortia, and project tables where the contribution is credible.
Activate the right collaboration conversations
Prepare and accompany engagement with decision makers, project actors, consortia, and policy stakeholders.
Structure blended finance and EU-funded routes
Identify co-funded opportunities, blended-finance mechanisms, and project routes that support long-term presence.
Why Makeaplan
Activation turns strategic fit into a real European position.
A fair, a broker, or a contact list can create a meeting. It does not prove whether your company fits Europe’s strategic sectors, value-chain priorities, policy direction, or project pathways. Makeaplan does that work first, then activates the concrete conversations, project routes, and stakeholder engagement needed to make the fit visible and operational.
Who shapes the collaboration
Strategic sectors shape EU/non-EU collaboration.
EU/non-EU collaboration is shaped by priority sectors, industrial districts, policy agendas, innovation programs, research ecosystems, development agencies, and value-chain needs. Makeaplan maps where the company can contribute and accompanies it through the right sequence of conversations and project pathways.
Industrial districts and value chains
Corporates, district leaders, supply-chain actors, technology users, and industrial partners.
Institutions and policy actors
Policy makers, public agencies, development bodies, and institutional counterparts.
Standards and associations
Organizations that influence technical credibility, adoption, and strategic sector direction.
Innovation and research ecosystems
Clusters, research centers, accelerators, technology platforms, and universities.
EU-funded and co-funded channels
EU programs, regional incentives, blended-finance instruments, and project mechanisms supporting international collaboration.
Strategic visibility
Narratives and positioning materials that show how the company contributes to European competitiveness and mutual development.
Published methodologyStrategic value before visibility.
Methodology
Grounded in value design and Brussels-facing intelligence.
Makeaplan’s activation work combines structured value design with constant Brussels-facing monitoring of EU policies, funding programs, and international innovation instruments. We read where Europe is investing, which extra-European relationships it supports, and which contributions are strategically valid.
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Before defining your European presence, test your policy and project fit.
Use the EU Strategic Fit & Collaboration Assessment to understand which sectors, districts, projects, finance routes, and stakeholders should be activated first.
Published methodology
Da Zero al Brand
Step-by-step strategic positioning, working schemes, orientation maps, and case studies from successful international brands.
View the bookMeet the founders
Strategy, relations, and execution.
Daniela Bavuso
Co-founder, Strategy and Relations
LinkedIn20 years of experience building relationships, positioning strategies, and innovation collaborations across markets.
Federico Blancato
Co-founder, Director
LinkedInTech lead focused on product delivery, MVPs, codebases, and practical execution for ambitious teams.
Insights
Makeaplan blog
Notes and perspectives on positioning, innovation ecosystems, strategic communication, and the market shifts that shape international collaboration.
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