ALTRAN INNOVACION SL

Their core work

Altran Innovación is the Spanish arm of Altran (now Capgemini Engineering), a major technology and engineering consultancy. In H2020, they contributed systems integration and applied engineering expertise across diverse domains — from citizen science platforms and environmental monitoring to robotics benchmarking infrastructure and IoT-based industrial maintenance. Their role is typically translating research concepts into engineered, deployable solutions, acting as a bridge between academic research and industrial application.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Altran's H2020 trajectory shows a clear shift from social and environmental applications toward harder engineering and industrial IoT. Their early involvement (2016) focused on citizen observatories and socio-technical systems for environmental monitoring. By 2018-2019, their work pivoted to robotics benchmarking infrastructure and IoT maintenance — domains closer to their core industrial engineering identity. The move toward coordinating VIMS suggests growing confidence in leading EU projects in the industrial IoT space.

Altran is moving toward industrial IoT and smart maintenance solutions, positioning themselves as an engineering integrator for Industry 4.0 applications.

How they like to work

Altran operates as both a participant and a project coordinator, having led one of their three projects (VIMS). With 33 unique partners across 12 countries from just 3 projects, they work in relatively large consortia — averaging 11+ partners per project. This breadth suggests they function as a versatile engineering partner comfortable integrating into diverse teams rather than repeatedly collaborating with a fixed set of allies.

Despite only three projects, Altran has built a network spanning 33 partners across 12 countries, reflecting the large consortium sizes typical of Innovation Actions. Their reach is firmly pan-European, consistent with a multinational consultancy operating across borders.

What sets them apart

Altran brings large-company engineering capacity and systems integration expertise to EU consortia — a profile that complements university research groups and specialist SMEs. Their ability to work across very different domains (environment, robotics, IoT) makes them a flexible integration partner who can translate research outputs into functional prototypes and deployed systems. For consortium builders, they offer the reliability and scale of a major consultancy with demonstrated willingness to coordinate projects.

Highlights from their portfolio

• VIMS
  Their only coordinator role, with the largest budget share (EUR 1.2M), signaling strategic commitment to IoT-based industrial maintenance.
• EUROBENCH
  Contributed to building Europe's standardized benchmarking framework for bipedal robots, exoskeletons, and prosthetics — a high-visibility robotics infrastructure project.