EKOGRID OY

Their core work

EKOGRID OY is a Finnish environmental technology SME built around a proprietary electrokinetic remediation technology — EKOGRID™ — designed to clean contaminated water and underwater sediments using electrical fields to drive oxidation of pollutants in place, without excavation. Their early work focused on this core technology for aquatic environments, and they have since expanded into enhanced in situ bioremediation for contaminated land, combining electrokinetic methods with biological approaches such as bioaugmentation, phytoremediation, and nanobioremediation. In the EiCLaR project (2021–2024), they contributed their electrokinetic expertise within a multi-country research consortium tackling complex contamination scenarios including mixtures of pollutants at high concentrations in soil and groundwater. Their value to a consortium or client is a specialist technology that bridges electrochemistry and biology for difficult-to-treat contaminated sites.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

EKOGRID OY entered H2020 in 2018 with a narrow, product-focused scope: their own EKOGRID™ technology for electrokinetic oxidation in water and underwater sediments, validated through a Phase 1 SME Instrument feasibility study. By 2021, they had shifted into a much broader bioremediation research agenda — joining the EiCLaR consortium to tackle contaminated land using a combination of biological, electrokinetic, and nanotechnology-based methods. The trajectory is a clear expansion from a single proprietary technology to a multi-method remediation toolkit, suggesting the company is maturing from early-stage technology validation toward deeper scientific collaboration and integration into complex research programs.

EKOGRID is moving from a single-technology product company toward a broader environmental remediation specialist, integrating biological, electrochemical, and nanotechnology approaches — making them increasingly relevant for complex contaminated site projects rather than just aquatic cleanup contracts.

How they like to work

EKOGRID has operated both as a coordinator (SME Instrument, essentially solo) and as a specialist participant in a larger RIA consortium. Their participation in EiCLaR — a multi-partner, multi-country research project — suggests they can integrate into established scientific consortia and contribute a specific technology rather than leading the research agenda. With 15 unique partners across 8 countries from just 2 projects, they appear to work within medium-to-large teams rather than bilateral arrangements, which is typical for environmental RIA projects in H2020.

EKOGRID has built a network of 15 unique consortium partners across 8 countries in only 2 projects, suggesting meaningful integration into European research teams despite a small project portfolio. Their network skews toward research-active countries in the environmental and bioeconomy space, consistent with the EiCLaR consortium profile.

What sets them apart

EKOGRID's core differentiator is their proprietary EKOGRID™ electrokinetic technology, which positions them as one of very few SMEs offering a validated in-field solution for electrokinetic remediation of water bodies and sediments — a niche not typically covered by larger environmental consultancies. Their expansion into bioelectrochemical and nano-bio remediation places them at an unusual intersection of electrochemistry, microbiology, and nanotechnology for contaminated site cleanup. For a consortium builder, they bring both a proprietary field-deployable technology and recent RIA-level scientific credibility in enhanced bioremediation.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EiCLaR
  Largest project by budget (€294,562 EC contribution) and the most technically rich, covering nanobioremediation, bioelectrochemical methods, and phytoremediation in a multi-country RIA consortium targeting contaminated land with complex pollutant mixtures.
• EKOGRID
  The project that validated EKOGRID™ as a proprietary technology via the SME Instrument Phase 1, representing the company's origin story and the only project where they acted as coordinator.