FUNDACION TECNOLOGIAS SOCIALES

Their core work

TECSOS is a Madrid-based foundation that applies technology to social-impact problems — particularly independent living for older adults, safety in connected home environments, and crisis response for vulnerable populations. In H2020 they appear consistently as a third party, meaning they are brought into consortia by a funded partner to contribute real-world deployment, end-user validation, and social-service expertise rather than core technical development. Their value proposition is bridging lab-grade IoT, AI and blockchain solutions with the people who actually need them: elderly users, at-risk households, and communities facing pandemic or security emergencies.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their first H2020 wave (2017-2020) centred on the connected home — IoT platforms for ageing well (ACTIVAGE) and IoT-plus-blockchain home safety (GHOST). By 2020 they had pivoted sharply toward public-safety and health-security challenges, joining STAMINA on pandemic crisis management with AI, machine learning, NLP and predictive analytics. The trajectory is a clear move from consumer and home IoT into higher-stakes public-interest security and health applications.

They are drifting toward AI-driven decision support for public emergencies, making them a sensible pick for consortia that need a socially-minded technology partner on health-security or civil-protection topics.

How they like to work

TECSOS never coordinates and never holds a funded participant slot in the data — all three engagements are as a third party, which suggests they are attached to a specific funded partner rather than contracting directly with the Commission. Despite this modest formal role, they have been exposed to 101 partners across 20 countries, meaning the consortia they join are large and pan-European. Expect them to plug in as a specialist contributor, not as a lead.

Connected to 101 unique consortium partners across 20 countries via just three projects, meaning they move in large multi-country consortia. No strong geographic concentration beyond their Spanish base.

What sets them apart

Most tech partners in IoT or crisis-management projects come from engineering or academic labs; TECSOS arrives with a social-foundation identity, rare and useful when a project needs credibility with end users, NGOs or public authorities. Their recurring third-party pattern signals they are a trusted add-on for a funded Spanish partner rather than an independent bidder. Bring them in when a consortium needs somebody who can translate a technical solution into something older adults, households or emergency services will actually adopt.

Highlights from their portfolio

• STAMINA
  Most recent and most ambitious — AI/ML decision support for pandemic prediction, positioning TECSOS in EU health-security work just as COVID-19 hit.
• GHOST
  Unusual combination of IoT, blockchain and home risk control — one of the earlier H2020 projects to pair distributed-ledger tech with consumer safety.
• ACTIVAGE
  Flagship large-scale pilot on IoT for ageing well, giving TECSOS direct exposure to deploying smart-home tech with older users.