CARAGLASS LIMITED

Their core work

Zeeko (trading as CARAGLASS LIMITED) is a Dublin-based Irish SME working at the intersection of child digital safety and emerging technology research. Their core work involves developing internet safety awareness programs for primary school children and conducting research into the psychological and physical effects of immersive technologies like virtual reality on young people. They operate both as educators and researchers — building practical safety curricula on one hand, and generating evidence on the risks of new digital technologies on the other. Their two H2020 projects position them as a specialist in protecting children and adolescents from harms in the digital environment.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both H2020 projects launched in 2017, so the temporal window is narrow and keyword metadata is absent, making a definitive evolution analysis difficult. That said, iSAFE — which completed within 2017 — was focused on awareness and education, while ZVW ran through 2019 and carried a more research-oriented brief, suggesting a maturation from program delivery toward empirical investigation. If this trajectory continued beyond 2019, one would expect the organization to move further into evidence-based research on technology-related harm to youth rather than awareness campaigns alone.

Zeeko appears to be moving from short-cycle awareness programs toward longer, research-backed investigations into how immersive technologies affect children's physical and mental health — a direction with growing policy relevance across Europe.

How they like to work

Zeeko has acted as coordinator on both of their H2020 projects, demonstrating a preference for leading rather than following in funded initiatives. No consortium partners appear in the CORDIS data, which suggests either solo execution or very small team structures not captured in the dataset. For potential partners, this means Zeeko is likely comfortable driving a project's direction and agenda, but may not bring an established network of co-applicants to a consortium.

No consortium partners are recorded across either of Zeeko's H2020 projects, and no partner countries appear in the data. Their EU-funded activity appears to have been executed independently or in very small, informal collaborations not reflected in CORDIS records.

What sets them apart

Zeeko occupies a niche that few SMEs explicitly address in EU research funding: the protection of children and adolescents from the harms of digital technology, backed by evidence rather than advocacy. Their ability to secure coordinator status on SME Instrument and CSA grants indicates credibility with EU evaluators in this space. For consortia working on digital education, online safety regulation, or emerging technology health impacts, Zeeko brings both practitioner knowledge and a research orientation that most pure-tech SMEs lack.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ZVW
  The largest and longest of Zeeko's two projects, ZVW tackled an underexplored topic — the side effects of virtual reality on children's bodies and minds — at a time when VR was entering mainstream consumer markets.
• iSAFE
  A fast-cycle SME Instrument Phase 1 project delivering internet safety awareness specifically to primary school children, signalling early market validation of Zeeko's child safety program concept.