FUTURE EVERYTHING CIC

Their core work

FutureEverything CIC is a Manchester-based Community Interest Company that works at the boundary of digital technology, civic participation, and environmental awareness. Their core practice involves designing and running citizen science initiatives — engaging non-specialist communities in collecting environmental data using low-cost sensors and mobile tools. In the GROW Observatory project, they contributed to building a pan-European network of citizen observers monitoring soil moisture, land use, and water resources across rural and urban areas. Their second H2020 involvement, in the CREATE-IoT coordination action, reflects an interest in shaping the broader European IoT ecosystem through cross-project alignment and knowledge exchange.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

FutureEverything entered H2020 with a clear environmental citizen science identity — their first project (GROW, 2016) centred on soil sensors, crowdsensing, and community land monitoring. Their second project (CREATE-IoT, 2017) marks a pivot toward the broader IoT policy and coordination space, with no subject-specific keywords recorded, suggesting a more facilitative or dissemination-oriented role. With only two projects and no H2020 activity after 2020, it is difficult to establish a trend with confidence — but the trajectory hints at a shift from hands-on citizen sensing toward ecosystem-level digital policy work.

FutureEverything appears to be moving from project-level citizen science delivery toward broader digital innovation facilitation, though their thin H2020 record makes this signal weak.

How they like to work

FutureEverything has operated exclusively as a consortium participant across both projects, never as coordinator — consistent with an organisation that contributes specialist community engagement or communications expertise rather than leading research. Despite only two projects, they engaged with 42 unique partners across 13 countries, suggesting they joined large, multi-partner consortia rather than small bilateral collaborations. This profile fits an organisation brought in for its public engagement reach or creative technology capabilities rather than for technical research leadership.

FutureEverything has built a notably wide network for an organisation with just two projects — 42 unique partners across 13 countries. This breadth likely reflects the pan-European nature of both GROW and CREATE-IoT rather than organic relationship-building, but it does indicate exposure to a diverse slice of the EU research and innovation ecosystem.

What sets them apart

FutureEverything occupies an unusual niche as a cultural and civic innovation organisation that has successfully entered EU-funded environmental science — bringing community design, public engagement, and digital arts sensibilities into projects that most technical partners cannot deliver. For a consortium needing genuine public participation rather than a checkbox dissemination plan, they offer credibility and practice that academic or engineering partners lack. Their CIC legal structure also signals a social mission orientation, which can strengthen the societal impact narrative in Horizon bids.

Highlights from their portfolio

• GROW
  The largest of their two H2020 projects (€497,792), GROW was a citizen science observatory for soil and land monitoring — an unusual combination of environmental science and mass community participation that directly reflects FutureEverything's core identity.
• CREATE-IoT
  A Coordination and Support Action connecting IoT research initiatives across Europe, showing FutureEverything's ability to contribute to policy-facing and cross-project alignment work beyond their citizen science roots.