BLYENBURGH & CO SARL

Their core work

Blyenburgh & Co is a Paris-based specialist consultancy focused on unmanned vehicle systems (UVS) — their website domain, uvs-info.com, signals deep roots in the RPAS/drone industry information and advocacy space. They work at the intersection of drone regulation, airworthiness certification, and satellite-based navigation (GNSS, satcom), contributing expert knowledge to EU-level policy and standards processes rather than building hardware. In H2020, they participated in projects establishing civilian RPAS operational frameworks and formal airworthiness standards for mass-market drones. Their value to a consortium is regulatory and domain expertise: they understand how European institutions, industry bodies, and aviation authorities approach unmanned systems governance.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their earlier H2020 work (SKYOPENER, 2016–2019), the focus was broad: combining RPAS operations with enabling satellite technologies — GNSS positioning and satcom communications — suggesting involvement in defining the technical and operational baseline for civilian drone use. By their second project (AW-Drones, 2019–2021), the keyword profile is absent of those satellite terms, and the scope narrowed to formal airworthiness standardisation for mass-market drones — a more regulatory and certification-oriented mandate. This tracks the real-world maturation of European drone policy: early years were about feasibility and frameworks; later years shifted to enforcement-ready standards.

They are moving deeper into certification and formal standards work as the European drone regulatory environment matures — making them a useful partner for any consortium that needs to interface with EASA or EU airspace governance bodies.

How they like to work

Blyenburgh & Co has participated in every H2020 project as a partner, never as coordinator — consistent with a specialist advisory role rather than a project management function. Across just two projects they engaged with 17 unique partners across 10 countries, suggesting they are brought in for specific domain knowledge within larger, multi-stakeholder consortia. This profile fits an organisation that contributes focused regulatory or standards expertise at key project phases rather than leading broad implementation work.

With 17 unique partners across 10 countries in only two projects, their per-project network is reasonably broad, reflecting the multi-national nature of European drone regulation efforts. No geographic concentration is apparent beyond the EU aviation policy space.

What sets them apart

The uvs-info.com domain is associated with the unmanned vehicle systems information community, suggesting Blyenburgh & Co is embedded in RPAS industry networks in a way that most generic tech SMEs are not. Their dual exposure to both technical standards (airworthiness) and satellite enabling technologies (GNSS, satcom) means they can bridge the gap between aviation regulators and space-sector technology providers — a rare combination in European drone consortia. For a project needing credible input into EASA processes or EU drone policy consultation, they bring the right connections.

Highlights from their portfolio

• AW-Drones
  The largest funding award (EUR 212,500) and most focused mandate — directly contributing to European airworthiness standards for mass-market drones, making it the highest-impact project in their portfolio.
• SKYOPENER
  Spans three distinct technology domains (RPAS, GNSS, satcom) within a single civilian use-case framework, demonstrating breadth across space and transport pillars simultaneously.