EASY INNOVA S.L.

Their core work

Easy Innova is a Spanish SME based in Girona that works at the intersection of innovation facilitation and SME support services. Their core work involves helping small and medium enterprises adopt and understand emerging economic and technological concepts — from community virtual currencies to networked innovation ecosystems. In both H2020 projects they contributed as practitioners who bridge the gap between research communities and business audiences, acting as translators of complex innovation concepts into actionable services for SMEs. Their contribution typically takes the form of dissemination, knowledge transfer, and building ICT-enabled networks that connect innovation agents with SME communities.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Easy Innova began their H2020 journey with a distinct interest in alternative economic instruments — specifically social and community virtual currencies — as tools for entrepreneurial social innovation (VirCoin2SME, 2014–2016). By their second project, the focus had shifted away from monetary experimentation toward the practical mechanics of connecting SMEs: networking infrastructure, innovation agents, and ICT-enabled services (NIR-VANA, 2016–2018). This shift suggests a maturation from exploring disruptive financial concepts toward building more conventional but immediately usable innovation facilitation services for business communities. Both projects remained firmly within the SME support space, so the trajectory is a narrowing of focus rather than a change of domain.

Easy Innova appears to be moving toward practical ICT-enabled innovation facilitation for SMEs, having tested more experimental territory (virtual currencies) and settled on networked service delivery as their operational niche — making them a potential partner for projects needing SME engagement or innovation dissemination components.

How they like to work

Easy Innova has participated exclusively as a partner, never as a coordinator, across both of their H2020 projects. With 11 unique consortium partners across 8 countries from only 2 projects, they demonstrate a broad and varied network rather than a pattern of repeat collaboration with the same partners. This suggests they are an adaptable team willing to slot into diverse consortia as a specialist SME-facing contributor, though the absence of any coordination experience means they are unlikely to have administrative project management capacity.

Easy Innova has built a surprisingly broad network for an organisation with just two projects — 11 distinct consortium partners spread across 8 countries, suggesting active participation in multi-country European initiatives. Their network spans both MSCA-RISE and CSA funding schemes, indicating connections across both research mobility and coordination-type consortia.

What sets them apart

Easy Innova occupies a rare niche for a Spanish private SME: practical experience connecting the research world's output — including unconventional ideas like community virtual currencies — with the everyday realities of SME operations. Based in Girona, they offer regional grounding with demonstrated European project reach, which can be attractive for consortia needing a Southern European SME partner with a genuine business-facing profile. For consortium builders, they are most valuable as a link between the project and its intended SME beneficiary audience, rather than as a technology developer or research producer.

Highlights from their portfolio

• VirCoin2SME
  The larger of the two projects (EUR 108,000) tackled the unconventional topic of social and complementary virtual currencies as knowledge transfer vehicles for SMEs — an unusual pairing that signals early-mover interest in alternative economic models before the 2017–2018 crypto boom.
• NIR-VANA
  A CSA-type project building a structured innovation networking room with ICT tools for SME-to-SME alliance formation, demonstrating the organisation's pivot toward scalable service infrastructure over one-off knowledge transfer.