Project BOWI (2020–2023) focused specifically on boosting Digital Innovation Hubs in EU widening countries, with keywords DIH, DIH network, widening, I4MS, and SAE.
CIVITTA LATVIJA
Baltic innovation and strategy consultancy specialising in Digital Innovation Hubs, EU widening programmes, and sustainable energy financing across CEE.
Their core work
CIVITTA LATVIJA is the Latvian branch of the CIVITTA Group, a Baltic and Central-Eastern European management and innovation consulting firm. Their core work involves advising on innovation ecosystems — particularly the development and networking of Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) — as well as sustainable finance and investment activation for the energy sector. In EU projects they typically contribute local market intelligence, stakeholder mapping, and policy-implementation know-how rather than conducting scientific research. Their dual presence in both digital innovation policy and energy transition financing suggests a firm positioned to bridge public funding frameworks with private sector uptake.
What they specialise in
Project SEIFA (2021–2023) centred on activating sustainable energy investment, covering decarbonisation, energy efficiency, and green financing instruments.
The widening and DIH network keywords in BOWI point to expertise in supporting innovation capacity-building in newer EU member states such as Latvia and its Baltic neighbours.
Keywords I4MS (Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs) and SAE in BOWI indicate advisory involvement in manufacturing digitisation programmes, though depth is limited to one project.
How they've shifted over time
In their early H2020 work (2020), CIVITTA LATVIJA was squarely focused on the digital innovation hub landscape — supporting the expansion and interconnection of DIH networks across widening EU countries, with an emphasis on SME access to Industry 4.0 services. By 2021, their focus shifted noticeably toward sustainable energy: financing mechanisms, decarbonisation pathways, and investment activation, which reflects the broader EU policy pivot toward the Green Deal. The trajectory suggests a consultancy that tracks EU funding priorities and repositions its service offering to match — moving from digital infrastructure capacity-building to green transition financing within just one year.
CIVITTA LATVIJA appears to be orienting toward the intersection of green finance and industrial decarbonisation, making them a relevant partner for consortia tackling energy transition advisory, investment readiness, or green finance policy implementation in the Baltic and CEE region.
How they like to work
CIVITTA LATVIJA has participated exclusively as a third party in both recorded H2020 projects — meaning they were brought in as sub-contractors or associated partners rather than holding a formal consortium seat with direct EC funding. This is typical for consulting firms that provide local implementation support, dissemination, or stakeholder engagement without leading the scientific agenda. Their reach across 26 unique partners and 17 countries from just two projects indicates involvement in large, pan-European consortia where their contribution is geographically or sectorally specific.
Despite only two projects on record, CIVITTA LATVIJA has touched 26 distinct consortium partners across 17 countries — a broad European footprint consistent with large CSA and IA-type consortia that span multiple EU member states. Their network likely concentrates in the Baltic, CEE, and Western European innovation-policy circles.
What sets them apart
CIVITTA LATVIJA occupies a rare niche as an innovation and strategy consultancy rooted in Latvia with demonstrated access to pan-European project networks spanning both digital transformation and energy transition. For consortium builders targeting widening-country participation or needing Baltic/CEE local expertise, they offer a credible, well-networked entry point that pure research organisations typically cannot provide. Their ability to operate across both digital and energy policy domains — backed by the wider CIVITTA Group infrastructure — makes them more versatile than single-sector specialists.
Highlights from their portfolio
- BOWIA multi-year CSA project (2020–2023) on boosting DIH networks in EU widening countries, placing CIVITTA LATVIJA at the heart of EU digital innovation policy with a 26-partner consortium.
- SEIFAAn IA-type project (2021–2023) on sustainable energy investing and financing activation, signalling the firm's strategic pivot toward green transition advisory at a moment of peak EU Green Deal momentum.