Amsterdam SME designing serious games and cybersecurity training programs for European competence-building projects.
Enquirya BV is a small Amsterdam-based consultancy that designs technology-enabled training programs and digital learning environments for high-stakes professional domains. Their work combines instructional design, curriculum development, and immersive formats — serious games, role-playing simulations, and virtual training environments — to build complex human skills at scale. In the cybersecurity domain, they contributed to building European-level skills frameworks, certification schemes, and cyber range infrastructure through the ECHO project. Earlier work applied similar experiential-learning logic to conflict prevention, diversity, and peacebuilding, suggesting a cross-domain specialization in structured skill-building rather than in any single technical field.
ECHO (2019–2023) involved developing cyberskills frameworks, education and training programs, and security certification schemes within a European network of cybersecurity centres.
GAP (2016–2019) used online games and role-playing as training vehicles for conflict prevention, diversity, and soft-skills development.
Both GAP and ECHO explicitly involved curriculum development — GAP for peacebuilding educators, ECHO for cybersecurity professionals and certification schemes.
GAP targeted conflict prevention and peacebuilding through game-based learning, with explicit focus on gender, culture, and diversity dimensions.
In their first H2020 project (2016–2019), Enquirya focused on the social and soft-skills end of experiential learning — using games and role-play to address conflict prevention, diversity, and intercultural communication. By 2019 they had pivoted into the cybersecurity domain, contributing to the ECHO consortium's work on cyber ranges, early warning systems, and European-level cyberskills frameworks. The underlying methodology stayed consistent — structured, technology-mediated skill development — while the domain shifted from social cohesion to technical security.
Enquirya appears to be repositioning as a cybersecurity training specialist, having moved from soft-skills gamification toward large-scale European cyber competence infrastructure — a direction with strong future demand given the EU's cybersecurity investment agenda.
Enquirya has participated in both of their H2020 projects as a consortium partner, never as coordinator — a pattern consistent with a specialist contributor that brings a defined capability (training design, gamification, curriculum) into larger-led projects. Their 52 unique partners across 17 countries from just two projects indicates involvement in large, multi-stakeholder consortia rather than tight bilateral partnerships. For a prospective consortium builder, they are most useful as a training-methodology or dissemination-and-skills specialist rather than as a project manager.
Despite only two projects, Enquirya has accumulated 52 unique consortium partners spanning 17 countries — a notably broad network for an SME of their size, reflecting participation in two large, pan-European initiatives. Their geographic footprint is European in scope with no evidence of a single-country focus.
Enquirya occupies an unusual intersection: a private SME that applies game-based and simulation-driven learning to domains — peacebuilding, then cybersecurity — where skill development is operationally critical but pedagogically difficult. What sets them apart is the methodological consistency across domains: they bring structured experiential-learning design to any field that needs to train people for complex, high-pressure situations. For a consortium that needs a credible training-design or cyberskills partner with European project experience, they offer a track record that pure-play tech firms typically lack.
