Success Stories for Horizon 2020: SME Instrument
Sustainable agriculture through carbon capture
Deep Branch is creating proprietary CO2-to-protein processes directly utilising clean CO2 and hydrogen to generate single-cell protein for animal nutrition.
Their technology enables businesses to lower their carbon footprint without impacting their operational costs.
CO2 capture technology for the sustainable plastics industry
Econic develops unique catalyst technologies that allow the conversion of CO2 into commercial-grade plastic, replacing the traditional fossil fuel feedstocks.
Solution with the potential to remove up to 90M tonnes of CO2 from the Earth’s atmosphere annually if adopted by 30% of global plastic producers by 2050.
Edge machine learning for smart IoT devices
Xmos creates fast, flexible, easy-to-use economic processors that put intelligence, connectivity, and enhanced computation at the core of smart IoT products.
Their core platform enables product designers to architect highly differentiated and integrated system-on-chip solutions.
Shaping the future of photonics for effective communication
Effect Photonics delivers highly integrated optical communications products in optical System-on-Chip technology.
Their technology enables building agile, scalable, and flexible networks using software and network virtualisation functions for industry applications.
Making wind power sustainable by decreasing steel dependency
Modvion develops modular wind turbine towers from laminated timber. The solution solves current towers’ primary complications while enabling simplified transport and mounting of high towers.
Technology enabling decreased carbon footprint–wooden turbine tower lifetime emissions are 90% lower than steel ones.
Creating antimicrobials for future pandemics
Omnix Medical is developing an arsenal of novel antibiotic agents for the treatment of infections involving drug-resistant bacteria.
Their drug discovery pipeline is based on natural antimicrobial peptides, genetically engineered to be compatible with therapeutic use.
Sustainable solutions for industry and manufacturing
TiHive helps industries to optimise the use of raw materials & reducing waste using our distributed and inline monitoring systems.
Their solution uses state-of-the-art in-line monitoring systems based on terahertz see-through vision technology allied to deep learning that monitors raw material usage and uncovers and processes hidden features within products in real time.
Leading developer and provider of printed organic solar cells
Epishine developed a portfolio of products for indoor light energy harvesting & efficiency monitoring.
Their optimised maintenance solution reduces or eliminates disposable batteries.
Climate impact reduction up to 97%.
Infrastructure and storage solutions for green hydrogen
Hydrogenious technology for handling liquid organic hydrogen enables stockpiling of non-explosive and almost non-flammable hydrogen in ambient pressure and temperature.
Reducing the operating cost of hydrogen transport by up to 80% and opening up new business opportunities for users.
Leading supplier of dynamic analysis instruments for cell biology research and diagnostics
Lumics unlocks possibilities for the measurement of biological forces and interactions to enable a better understanding of disease state.
Ideally suited for immunotherapy research, such as novel therapies using CAR T, TCR T, cell engagers, and CAR-NK / NK cells.
Independent European microchip foundry
Smart Photonics is a pure-play foundry offering production services for Indium Phosphide-based photonic components.
They support custom and generic chip manufacturing, with over 300 generic chips realised.
First-in-class technology for microbiome engineering
Eligo Bioscience technology enables the delivery and expression of therapeutic DNA that allows modulation of the microbiome’s composition and function to address the human disease with unprecedented precision.
Their patent-protected tech can change the way many diseases are treated.
Global technology leader in supercapacitor energy storage, enabling electrification and reducing CO2 emissions
Skeleton Technologies ultracapacitors, a graphene-based energy storage solution, offer high power density (30% more than batteries), are extremely reliable in different conditions (-40°C to 65°C), and are constructed from abundant materials that can be recycled easily.
They work with some of the largest companies in the world - from leading Tier One automotive firms and industrial equipment OEMs to truck fleet operators and aerospace prime contractors.
AI for the agriculture industry
Connecterra solution seamlessly integrates hardware & software to increase the yield of dairy cattle farmers.
Their technology offers AI-based predictive intelligence that can turn raw data into actionable insights.
