ELEKTROBIT AUTOMOTIVE ROMANIA SRL

Their core work

Elektrobit Automotive Romania is a private automotive software company based in Brasov, Romania, operating as part of the broader Elektrobit group. They bring real industry requirements for automotive computing directly into EU research consortia — contributing expertise on processor specifications, hardware accelerators, and computing units suited to automotive-grade systems, as demonstrated by their involvement in the European Processor Initiative. More recently they have moved into cybersecurity research, participating in a project that develops practical security toolkits for smaller companies. Their value in EU consortia is the manufacturer's perspective: what embedded computing actually needs to perform and stay secure inside a vehicle.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their early H2020 engagement (2018) focused on hardware-level automotive computing — defining requirements for European processors and accelerators engineered to automotive-grade standards. By 2020, their focus shifted toward cybersecurity and securing digital ICT infrastructure for businesses that lack in-house security capacity. This trajectory mirrors the broader automotive industry's own shift from hardware performance challenges toward software, connectivity, and security as the defining concerns of the next vehicle generation.

They are moving from defining automotive hardware requirements toward contributing to digital security, a direction that reflects the automotive industry's growing priority around software-defined vehicle security.

How they like to work

Elektrobit Automotive Romania has not led any H2020 projects, consistently taking specialist contributor or third-party roles that let them inject focused industrial expertise without taking on project coordination. Despite only two projects, they accumulated 44 unique consortium partners across 17 countries, which indicates membership in very large, multinational consortia where their automotive industry perspective was specifically sought out. This pattern suggests they are invited into consortia to validate or ground research in real automotive requirements rather than to drive research agendas.

Despite only two H2020 projects, they have reached 44 unique partners across 17 countries — a broad European footprint explained by their participation in large consortia like the European Processor Initiative, which typically spans dozens of industrial and academic partners. Their network skews toward ICT, security, and automotive technology actors across Western and Central Europe.

What sets them apart

Elektrobit Automotive Romania occupies a specific niche: a private automotive software company from Romania that brings genuine end-user requirements into EU research programs, representing what must actually work inside a vehicle rather than what is theoretically possible. Unlike academic or research institute partners, they provide industrial grounding — a perspective that large computing and security consortia specifically need to ensure research outputs are deployable in real automotive contexts. Their dual exposure to processor architecture and cybersecurity positions them well for any consortium working at the intersection of high-performance embedded computing and connected vehicle security.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EPI SGA1
  The European Processor Initiative is one of the EU's most strategically significant computing programs, targeting chip sovereignty, and Elektrobit's inclusion as an automotive computing contributor signals recognized standing in a high-profile, competitive consortium.
• CyberKit4SME
  Their only directly funded H2020 project (EUR 156,538), tackling the practical challenge of making cybersecurity tools accessible to smaller companies — an applied, industry-facing mission that reflects Elektrobit's commercial orientation.