Even within the European Union, many small and medium sized IT businesses act on a very local or regional basis, although they develop products fit for worldwide markets. The lack of capacity for internationalisation can very often be compensated by networking and cooperation.

On this website, you will find numerous opportunities to expand your outreach, e.g. by browsing company data bases, attending matchmaking events or learnning about new markets and opportunities for export.

The existing company data bases in this section are an intermediate solution until one universal European IT business data base will be built up by the end of 2004. This data base will offer various possibilities to find and get in touch with potential partners or organisations that help you find partners and inform you about markets. A special feature will be the personal videoconferencing tool AIVET.conference which will be implemented before September 2004. It enables users to get in touch visually with other participants of the system while simultaneously working on shared documents or showing presentations.