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Where EU money actually lands in Latvia, and why the same organisations keep winning
Published on 19 May 2026
Across the projects where a Latvian entity coordinates the consortium, the same handful of organisations win, again and again, across programmes that have almost nothing in common with each other. They do it for reasons that have very little to do with luck – and the organisations most actively trying to break in are not, in the main, breaking through.
Three things, said directly
Pick your league before you pick your call. Infrastructure (CEF) and research (HORIZON, EDF) require different playbooks, partners, and timelines. Organisations that confuse the two waste cycles on calls they cannot win.
If you are a Widening-country institution not yet on the leaderboard, the Widening pillar exists for you. CAMART² and BBCE are not exceptional luck. They are the policy working.
Build the consortium before the call drops, and build it through people, not through the portal. The organisations on the partner-search board are signalling availability now. The organisations on the leaderboard already know their partners. The bridge between those two worlds is where the next funding cycle is being decided, and it is not being decided on a public board.
Series
EU funding landscape, article 1
Scope
EU-funded projects with a Latvian coordinator
Published on LinkedIn on 19 May 2026, where the full article and its charts are.