Securing the right technical sponsor is not just about fulfilling a publishing requirement — it is a strategic choice that can define how far your conference reaches, who it attracts, and how your research community grows. For conferences aiming to connect with a truly global audience and build long-term visibility, the right partner makes all the difference.
Most conference organizers today understand the mechanics of technical sponsorship: you collaborate with a publisher, proceedings get published and indexed, and your event benefits from a stronger brand presence. But not all sponsorship offers the same potential for impact.
Selecting an appropriate technical sponsor plays a key role in determining your conference’s academic visibility, credibility, and accessibility. It influences how your conference will be perceived by the research community, where and how your proceedings will be indexed, whether your content is openly accessible, and how visible it will remain in the long term.
Factors such as open access availability, quality of indexing, publisher reputation, and alignment with your conference’s values and audience can all make a significant difference in achieving international visibility.
In this article, we explore how making the right sponsorship choice can elevate your conference’s global profile — and why many organizers choose the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) to help them achieve that goal.
Why Choose EAI as Your Technical Sponsor?
Choosing EAI as your technical sponsor connects your conference to the world’s largest open ICT society, with a global community of over 250,000 researchers and professionals.
EAI is a non-profit organization dedicated to making academic publishing more ethical, accessible, and inclusive — particularly for researchers and communities in emerging regions. Unlike many commercial publishers, we put transparency, fairness, and community values at the heart of our publishing model.
1. Strong Community and Global Visibility
By joining EAI’s publishing ecosystem, your conference gains visibility within a large, active academic network and benefits from alignment with a trusted, inclusive, and academically rigorous society.
2. High-Visibility Publishing in EAI Series
Your proceedings will be published in one of EAI’s respected proceedings series:
- EAI Community Research Series – CORE: Dedicated to research in information and communication technologies and related technical fields. CORE welcomes conferences that focus on technological innovation, including those that incorporate interdisciplinary perspectives.
- EAI Computing and Communication in Emerging Regions – CCER: A multidisciplinary series supporting research from emerging regions. Open to conferences across science, technology, health, education, economics, law, and others, with a strong focus on real-world challenges and regional development.
Both series ensure your conference’s research reaches a truly global audience.
3. Access Through the European Union Digital Library
All proceedings are published in the European Union Digital Library (EUDL) — a major open access platform with over 1.2 million monthly viewers. This guarantees high discoverability and long-term access to your conference’s outputs.
4. Trusted Indexing and Archiving
EAI ensures that your conference proceedings are:
- Indexed in EBSCO, CNKI, and Google Scholar
- Archived in Portico for long-term preservation
- Published as open access with no barriers for readers worldwide
This level of visibility and indexing helps increase citation potential and academic impact.
5. Support for Diversity and Emerging Regions
We actively work to amplify the voices of researchers from underrepresented and emerging regions — helping your conference contribute to a more equitable global research community.
How to Connect Your Conference with EAI
Technical sponsorship is more than a publishing agreement — it is an opportunity to grow your conference’s reach, credibility, and long-term visibility.
By choosing EAI as your partner, you connect your event to a trusted non-profit society, benefit from open access publishing in respected proceedings series and ensure your conference outputs are globally accessible through the European Union Digital Library.
Do you need more information? Learn more about EAI Technical Sponsorship or submit your proposal right away.
