AIR WORLDWIDE LIMITED

Their core work

AIR Worldwide Limited is a London-based private company that applies risk analysis and preparedness expertise to security and crisis management challenges. In EU research, they have contributed to multi-agency crisis response planning and the development of mixed reality training platforms for transboundary emergency scenarios. Their more recent work moves into maritime cybersecurity, where they support cyber preparedness and awareness across the maritime logistics supply chain. Their value to consortia lies in bringing structured risk assessment and scenario-based training methodology into applied security projects.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their earliest H2020 work (2017) was grounded in physical crisis management — transboundary emergency coordination, C3 integration, and immersive training environments using mixed reality. By 2019, the focus had shifted decisively toward the cyber domain, specifically the vulnerabilities of maritime logistics networks and the use of cyber ranges for sector-specific training. The trajectory suggests a deliberate pivot from broad emergency preparedness toward sector-targeted cyber resilience, with training methodology as the connecting thread between both phases.

AIR Worldwide appears to be positioning itself at the intersection of cyber risk and critical infrastructure sectors, with maritime as a named vertical — likely a precursor to similar work in other transport or logistics domains.

How they like to work

AIR Worldwide has never led an H2020 project, joining both times as a non-coordinating partner or third party. Despite this supporting role, they accessed a network of 33 unique partners across 10 countries from just two projects, which indicates participation in large, multi-stakeholder Innovation Actions. This pattern suggests they are recruited as a specialist contributor — brought in for specific risk or training expertise — rather than as a driving force in consortium design.

With 33 unique partners across 10 countries reached through only two projects, AIR Worldwide has a surprisingly broad European footprint for an organisation at this stage of H2020 participation. Their consortia were clearly large and geographically distributed, consistent with the multi-national scope of transboundary crisis and maritime security projects.

What sets them apart

AIR Worldwide occupies a rare position as a private commercial firm (non-SME) that contributes specialist risk and preparedness expertise to EU security research without leading projects — a profile more typical of niche consultancies or insurers with analytical arms. Their bridge between physical crisis management and emerging maritime cyber risk makes them an unusual asset for consortia that need real-world risk quantification alongside academic or technical partners. For a project coordinator, they represent a credible industry voice that also brings methodological depth in training and scenario design.

Highlights from their portfolio

• IN-PREP
  Their only directly funded H2020 project (€340,462), addressing inter-organisational preparedness across borders using mixed reality and C3 integration — their most documented area of expertise.
• Cyber-MAR
  Participation as a third party signals that they were brought in as a named specialist contributor to a maritime cybersecurity Innovation Action, reflecting an active expansion into the cyber domain despite receiving no direct EC funding.