Gate2RuBIN partners act as a bridge between Russia and EU businesses providing services to create partnerships in terms of:

• Business development (B2B)
• Transnational Technology Transfer (TTT)
• Research cooperation (R&D)

The support provided by the Gate2RuBIN team includes the following groups of services:

Consulting on access to Russian market:

• custom legislation and regulation
• taxes
• common legislation issues of making business in Russia for foreign companies
• opportunities/needs of Russian regional markets
• access to relevant sources of marketing information

Business to Business cooperation services include matchmaking search among Russian companies in accordance with EU and other countries? business requests for cooperation in various forms: joint ventures, distribution, trade, etc.

Technology and Knowledge Transfer services include assistance in searching Russian partners — industrial technology developers or researchers — for establishing a win-win technological cooperation. Via networking, we have access to 450 Russian R&D institutes and universities and over 1500 innovation companies. In 2009, we helped 5 EU organisation to find relevant Russian partners and to start implementation of joint technological projects. Also, we promote the Russian technological offers and requests via the EEN database.

Partnerships for FP7 projects: searching for Russian R&D competences to enrich international FP7 consortia. We assist in both ways: looking for Russian competences relevant to EU requests and promoting project ideas of Russian teams. These services are provided in cooperation with Russian FP7 National Contact Points.