CONSEN Euro-Group is a Grouping of European SMEs who have agreed to cooperate as Euro-Cluster in Information Society Technologies projects, tenders and business throughout Europe.

CONSEN (Coordinate Open Neural info-Space of European Network e-centers) has been the society for information professionals and micro-companies leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information and communication.

CONSEN is a non-profit, independent and international consulting firm constituted in November of 2004 in Barcelona.

CONSEN aims to maximize socio-economic benefits acting Pro-Information Society and Open Technologies.

The companies are all experts in Open-Source Software, Contents, Standards, Infrastructures and Information Society Technologies.

A member of CONSEN Partners network Grouping owns a shares and pays an annual fee and receives benefits in four major areas: research and innovation, marketing and promotion, network building, and organization.

CONSEN is a European OS/IST Cluster built with the networking methodologies and competences of our partners.

The main objective of the CONSEN (EEIG) is to establish an ongoing and effective dialogue between members focused on Research, Development, Innovation and Business of Open Technological Solutions for Information and Communication at European level.

CONSEN brings together diverse areas and streams of knowledge, focusing what might be disparate approaches into novel and operative solutions to common problems in Information Society Technologies. CONSEN bridges the gaps not only between disciplines but also between the research that drives and the practices that sustain new developments.

CONSEN aims to function as the focal point for partners wishing to work inside the EU and for the EU.The CONSEN partner's commitment maximizes the Socio-Economic benefits of CONSEN activities.

The CONSEN member's strategy is to share resources and assets, to exploit and manage the network competencies of their members with synergic effect.

The partnership of CONSEN is focused on growing open source business and solutions by pooling resources for collective actions in Consulting; Marketing and Business, in three Layers:

Research and Innovation projects, Tenders and Bids and IST join Brochure for Technological Business.

CONSEN is evolving to a cooperative society to enhance the exploitation of the partners competences and the building of a fair market, trade in Open Source technologies.

CONSEN grouping's acts as extension of the company internal organization, fostering cooperation and transferring technology, innovation and knowledge.

CONSEN facilitates them to acquire and put into practice new technologies, cooperate with research institutes to develop systems and application in response to industrial demand of creation of new markets, new business models and new profit centres.

The aim of the CONSEN grouping is to support organizations and businesses in the EU in responding more efficiently to the challenges of the new economy and the internationalized competitive environment.

CONSEN business is pan-European, crafted with our national members. We have native speakers in-house and can tap into our international network of 10 agencies in 8 European countries.