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Their core work

Adrestia is a Greek research SME based in Heraklion, Crete, that applies advanced digital technologies to real-world safety and security challenges. Their documented work spans two distinct domains: digital security for IoT environments — including blockchain-based trust frameworks, privacy protection, and end-user cybersecurity training — and AI-driven environmental emergency management, specifically wildfire detection, prevention, and ecosystem restoration. As a participant in Innovation Actions (the most deployment-oriented Horizon 2020 funding scheme), they contribute applied technical integration work rather than foundational research. They operate within large, multi-national European consortia, suggesting they bring specialist implementation capabilities to ambitious, multi-partner projects.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both projects launched in 2021, making true temporal evolution difficult to establish — this is a young H2020 participant with a very short track record. That said, the thematic gap between the two projects is striking: their first documented focus (SECANT) was entirely in digital infrastructure security — IoT device protection, blockchain trust, and cybersecurity training for human operators. Their second project (TREEADS) pivots sharply into environmental AI — wildfire detection, forest ecosystem management, and restoration — with no apparent overlap in methods or domain. This either reflects a research firm deliberately building a broad AI application portfolio across unrelated sectors, or opportunistic project participation driven by open calls rather than a coherent research roadmap.

Adrestia appears to be expanding from digital cybersecurity into AI applications for public and environmental safety — but with only two projects both starting in the same year, it is too early to confirm whether this represents a deliberate strategic direction or simply a broad project intake strategy.

How they like to work

Adrestia has participated exclusively as a consortium partner across both projects — never as coordinator — which is typical of a small, technically specialized SME that contributes focused expertise rather than project management capacity. Both projects are large Innovation Action consortia, and their combined 72 unique partners across 18 countries indicates comfort operating within complex, multi-stakeholder environments where their role is well-scoped and defined. With only two projects, it is not possible to identify recurring partner relationships or a preferred consortium structure.

Despite only two completed or ongoing projects, Adrestia has connected with 72 unique consortium partners across 18 countries — reflecting participation in large, geographically diverse Innovation Action consortia rather than small bilateral collaborations. Their network is pan-European with no identifiable geographic concentration beyond their Greek base.

What sets them apart

Adrestia occupies an unusual dual niche for a small Greek research company: they hold expertise in both digital security infrastructure (IoT, blockchain) and AI-driven environmental emergency response (wildfire, forest management) — two fields that rarely coexist in the same SME. Their exclusive participation in Innovation Actions, the deployment-focused end of the H2020 spectrum, suggests they are oriented toward building working systems rather than publishing research. For a consortium that needs a technically capable Greek SME with cross-domain AI experience and a Mediterranean perspective on environmental risk, Adrestia is a compact but potentially versatile partner.

Highlights from their portfolio

• TREEADS
  The largest-funded project (€283,544) addresses one of the most pressing risks in southern Europe — wildfire management and forest restoration — using AI and sensor integration in a domain with strong policy and commercial relevance for Mediterranean countries.
• SECANT
  Tackles IoT security and distributed ledger trust at the infrastructure level, positioning Adrestia within the growing European regulatory push for secure-by-design connected devices under frameworks like the EU Cyber Resilience Act.