Hi, I am not sure if this is even useful information:
I don’t know why or how, but for some reason I was put on a “Partner Search” list for an EU funding program in 2013. There are networks of professionals who find partners for their consortia this way. I still have some of the emails from last year of people asking me to have my group join theirs because, as @Alberto says, the stipulation for participating is having cross border partnerships.
As I said, I don’t know who put me on the list nor do I know how it works, but here are some examples of the letters I used to get:
I would try to go through community networks first and see what comes out, unless you have a specific org to recommend?
Lukas @luckyluki hi and good to meet you, so it seems everyone wants to be part of a consortium, yet no lead Let’s all have a call next week so we get to know each other better? I can set it up for Tuesday, if that’s ok with you too.
At XWiki I’m currently managing (our role in) the http://riscoss.eu/ project but we may be looking for a new project in the coming year. At the very least I might be able to offer advice about how to work with research projects, we can chat at the 31c3.