CAPGEMINI CONSULTING

Their core work

Capgemini Consulting — now rebranded as Capgemini Invent — is the strategy, innovation, and digital transformation consulting arm of the Capgemini Group, one of the world's largest IT services and consulting firms. In H2020 projects, they do not conduct core research; instead, they contribute enterprise consulting capacity, regulatory expertise (especially GDPR and legal frameworks), and large-scale pilot validation — bridging the gap between academic R&D and real-world deployment. Their two EU security projects cover two distinct domains: cybersecurity and resilience for electrical power grids, and AI-driven analytics platforms for law enforcement. This dual footprint suggests they function as a high-credibility industry anchor in technically complex consortia, lending enterprise deployment experience and regulatory navigation rather than laboratory innovation.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both H2020 projects started in 2019 and ran concurrently through 2022, so the keyword split does not represent a true chronological shift — it reflects two parallel security workstreams pursued simultaneously. The first workstream (PHOENIX) focused on technical infrastructure resilience: power grid cybersecurity, GDPR, self-healing systems, and privacy-preserving ML. The second (ROXANNE) targeted societal security: AI-powered criminal intelligence, speech analytics, and the governance of surveillance technologies. Rather than an evolution, this breadth signals that Capgemini Invent operates across the full security spectrum — from industrial OT/IT convergence to law enforcement AI — positioning them as a versatile security consulting partner rather than a narrow technical specialist.

Given that both projects ran simultaneously and covered separate security domains, the signal is breadth rather than direction — but the ROXANNE work on AI-driven intelligence platforms and ethical frameworks points toward growing involvement in public-safety AI governance, a fast-expanding EU funding priority.

How they like to work

Capgemini has never held the coordinator role in H2020 — they consistently join as a participant, contributing consulting, validation, and regulatory expertise to technically-led consortia. With 51 unique partners across just 2 projects, they operate in very large multi-stakeholder consortia (averaging 25+ partners each), which is typical of EU security and infrastructure research where academic labs, public authorities, and industry players all participate. Working with them means engaging a large corporate partner who brings enterprise credibility and access to real deployment environments, but who will not drive the research agenda.

Capgemini's H2020 network is unusually broad for just two projects — 51 unique partners across 20 countries — reflecting participation in large, pan-European security research consortia. No geographic concentration is evident from the data; the reach across 20 countries suggests comfort with diverse European research partnerships.

What sets them apart

As part of a global Top-5 IT consulting group with over 350,000 employees, Capgemini Invent brings a scale and enterprise client base that no university or SME in a consortium can match — making them valuable when a project needs a credible bridge to large-scale commercial adoption. Their specific niche in H2020 is the intersection of security technology and regulatory compliance: they understand both the technical system and the legal/ethical environment it must operate in. For a consortium building a security or AI platform that needs enterprise validation and regulatory sign-off, Capgemini Invent offers a combination of brand authority, compliance expertise, and real-world deployment access.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PHOENIX
  Addressed cybersecurity and privacy for critical national infrastructure (electrical power grids), combining GDPR compliance with privacy-preserving ML — a technically and regulatorily complex challenge at the frontier of OT/IT security.
• ROXANNE
  Built a real-time AI platform combining speech recognition, criminal network mapping, and counter-terrorism analytics, while embedding a legal and ethical framework — an unusually complete approach to responsible law enforcement AI.