Prof. Zohar Ben-Asher

EuCRF (European Centre for Research & Financing) is an Israeli-based all-European innovation enabler in research, strategic planning & project management. We concentrate on internationally funded R&D projects and on developing and implementing scientific & technological developmental strategies. Typically, when working with an organisation, we work with both management, scientists and technological staff on developing and implementing their R&D projects, so they meet not just the requirements of internationally funding authorities & entities, but even more importantly – the expectations of the evaluation & review processes. Frequently, this work is also combined with a wider scope of our engagement, when we are involved in developing and implementing the organisational, governance & corporate strategy. As an entity dedicated to societal and citizenry service, we are committed to the building of a better, advanced and sustainable scientific & technological ecosystem that will help public and private organisations – ranging from start-ups, through SMEs, large corporations, public institutions (e.g., hospitals, cultural organisations, cities, regional & national governments), universities and other research organisations to further excel their innovative R&D capabilities and capacity while, at the same time, enhancing their revenue streams and expanding their international collaborative networks and maintaining their overall societal nexus. To further enhance this goal, EuCRF offers an entirely free service of your R&D ideas & potential projects. This entirely free service enables interested parties to send us a brief synopsis of their ideas for projects or development of products or services so we can assess their potential to be publicly funded by such funding instruments as Horizon Europe or other like instruments. EuCRF is obliged to refrain from using or disclosing such ideas beyond the assessment process so as to strictly retain secrecy. EuCRF was founded back in 1982 in London (UK) as a spinoff company for the benefit of society of the International School of Business Sciences. Striving for scientific excellence and first-rate level of innovation, we have moved, in 2002, to Israel, where the scientific & technological – and particularly innovative – ecosystems proved the most advanced and attractive. This moved has allowed EuCRF to remain part of the European innovating scientific & technological community since Israel has become part of the European Framework Programme and later the Horizon Programmes. At the same time, this allowed us to exploit the Israeli special relationship with the American scientific & technological ecosystem and expand globally. In our many years of operation, EuCRF has been involved in developing and implementing innovative R&D projects, setting research & development strategies and devising funding policies aimed at the increase of external funding to academic and industrial organisations in the UK, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, Slovenia, Israel, and more, as well as USA and China, where EuCRF and its teams have played crucial role. We have worked closely with numerous organisations & institutions, including universities, large industrial organisations, SMEs, start-ups and others, such as University of Copenhagen, Buckingham University, Sigma Aldrich, Novozymes, Unilever, Montana State University, MictoDish, S.N. Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Italian Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Glasgow University and many more.