The EEN is made up of 600 local contact points spread around Europe These are the contact points across Europe and beyond (including Russia) for business.

The EEN correspondence centre for Russia, is operated by a consortium of the 3 qualified national level organizations. In addition to providing direct services to Russian and international businesses, they use the privilege to being the hosts/coordinators of the national networks. By integrating the best regional members of their networks into the EEN activities, the consortium partners provide you with a direct access through the Gate — consortium — to the business opportunities almost in each region of Russia, covering a huge territory.

The national procedure for selecting the regional Gate2RuBIN members is a guaranty that the winners are capable to cooperate internationally in an effective way. Nevertheless, the consortium provides a quality control of the EU-Russia exchange with Gate2RuBIN members involvement, being responsible for the quality of business and technology profiles, information delivered by the request of EU businesses, reliability of the potential Russian partner found etc.

Thus, the role of the Russian Consortium as a Gate is also the animation, coordination of RF-EU relationships, quality control and methodological support for the members of Russian Business and Innovation Networks.