Innovation consulting and exploitation supportprimary
5 projects
Participates across unrelated technical domains (batteries, food, photonics, transport), indicating a consulting/support role rather than technical contribution.
Organization
EURA AG
German innovation consultancy providing exploitation, matchmaking, and commercialization services across EU research consortia in energy, food, and transport.
Innovation consultancymultidisciplinaryDESME
H2020 projects
5
As coordinator
0
Total EC funding
€1.8M
Unique partners
64
What they do
Their core work
EURA AG is a German consulting firm that provides innovation management, business development, and exploitation services to EU research consortia. Their domain name (euraconsult.de) and project portfolio — spanning batteries, food proteins, transport matchmaking, and photonics — point clearly to a horizontal consultancy role rather than deep technical specialization. They help research projects bridge the gap between laboratory results and market adoption, handling tasks like dissemination, matchmaking, and commercialization strategy within diverse consortia.
Core expertise
What they specialise in
Lithium-ion battery value chainssecondary
2 projects
Contributed to both SINTBAT (silicon-based battery materials) and ECO2LIB (battery production and recycling), their only repeated technical domain.
Matchmaking and market orchestrationsecondary
1 project
ENTRANCE project focused explicitly on matchmaking platforms, supply-demand-finance triangles, and purchase aggregation — closely aligned with their consulting DNA.
Alternative protein commercializationemerging
1 project
SMART PROTEIN project on plant and microbial protein sources for human nutrition, likely providing market access and business strategy support.
Photonics technology transferemerging
1 project
FEMTOCHIP project on integrated femtosecond lasers, where EURA likely supports exploitation planning for this advanced photonic technology.
Evolution & trajectory
How they've shifted over time
Early focus
Battery technology commercialization
Recent focus
Cross-sector innovation consulting
EURA AG's early H2020 involvement (2016–2020) centered on advanced battery technology, with both SINTBAT and ECO2LIB addressing lithium-ion battery materials and manufacturing. From 2020 onward, they diversified sharply into food technology (SMART PROTEIN), zero-emission transport matchmaking (ENTRANCE), and photonics (FEMTOCHIP). This broadening confirms their value lies not in one technical domain but in their ability to provide innovation and business services across sectors.
EURA AG is expanding into sustainability-oriented sectors (food, transport) while maintaining its core role as a business bridge between research and market, making them a versatile exploitation partner for green-transition projects.
Collaboration profile
How they like to work
Role: specialist_contributorReach: European20 countries collaborated
EURA AG always participates as a partner, never as coordinator, which is typical for consulting SMEs that provide support services within larger consortia. With 64 unique partners across just 5 projects, they operate in large consortia (averaging 13+ partners per project) and do not repeat partners frequently — suggesting they are adaptable joiners rather than a fixed-network hub. This makes them easy to integrate into new consortia without existing allegiance conflicts.
Despite only 5 projects, EURA AG has collaborated with 64 unique partners across 20 countries, giving them a remarkably broad European network for an SME of their size. No obvious geographic concentration — their partnerships span widely across the EU.
Why partner with them
What sets them apart
EURA AG's unusual strength is their cross-sector fluency: they can credibly contribute to a battery consortium one year and a food innovation project the next, because their value is in commercialization and business strategy, not lab work. For consortium builders, this means one partner that covers exploitation, dissemination, and market analysis without needing deep onboarding into the technical domain. Their location in Baden-Württemberg — Germany's industrial heartland — also gives them proximity to a dense SME and Mittelstand ecosystem.
Notable projects
Highlights from their portfolio
- ECO2LIBLargest single grant (EUR 665,000) focused on ecologically viable battery production and recycling — a high-priority EU Green Deal topic.
- ENTRANCEDirectly mirrors EURA's consulting DNA: a matchmaking platform for zero-emission transport, combining finance orchestration with innovation brokering.
- SMART PROTEINEntry into the fast-growing alternative protein sector, signaling EURA's pivot toward food sustainability and bioeconomy themes.
Cross-sector capabilities
manufacturingfoodtransportenergy
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