GHENOVA INGENIERIA SL

Their core work

Ghenova Ingenieria is a Spanish naval and marine engineering consultancy specialising in ship design, safety engineering, and advanced manufacturing for the maritime sector. In practice, this means they contribute engineering expertise to EU consortia tackling shipyard modernisation and the adoption of alternative fuels on passenger vessels. Their technical toolkit spans CFD simulation, digital twin modelling, risk assessment, and the integration of augmented reality and collaborative robotics into shipyard workflows. They sit at the intersection of traditional naval engineering and emerging digital and green-energy technologies for the marine industry.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Ghenova's first H2020 engagement (Mari4_YARD, starting 2020) placed them squarely in the human-factors and advanced-manufacturing space: worker-centric robotics, augmented reality, exoskeletons, and flexible production in shipyards. Their second project (e-SHyIPS, starting 2021) marks a clear pivot toward energy safety engineering — hydrogen fuel standards, CFD modelling, risk assessment, and digital twins for passenger ships. The through-line is the maritime sector, but the focus has shifted from how workers operate in shipyards to how ships themselves will be powered safely in a decarbonised future.

Ghenova is moving deeper into maritime energy transition — hydrogen, alternative fuels, and regulatory standards — making them a plausible partner for future projects on green shipping, port decarbonisation, or vessel retrofitting.

How they like to work

Ghenova has participated exclusively as a consortium partner across both projects and has never taken a coordinating role, suggesting they contribute specialist engineering input rather than driving project management. Both projects involve large, multi-country consortia, with 36 unique partners across 11 countries for just two participations — indicating they are integrated into broad networks but do not anchor them. This profile fits an expert subcontractor that brings domain-specific naval engineering credibility to otherwise technology-led consortia.

With 36 unique consortium partners spanning 11 countries from only two projects, Ghenova connects into unusually wide networks relative to their project volume. Their collaborations appear European in scope, consistent with the maritime industry's cross-border supply chains and classification society structures.

What sets them apart

Ghenova sits at a rare intersection: traditional naval engineering expertise combined with active engagement in both digital shipyard technologies and hydrogen energy safety — two of the most pressing fronts in maritime decarbonisation. Based in Sevilla with a pan-European network, they offer Spanish and southern European maritime industry grounding alongside technical capabilities in CFD, digital twin, and safety standards that most pure-software partners cannot provide. For consortia building around green shipping or shipyard Industry 4.0, they fill the practitioner-engineer slot that bridges concept and regulatory reality.

Highlights from their portfolio

• Mari4_YARD
  Their largest project by EC funding (€388,009) and the broadest in scope — combining AR, exoskeletons, collaborative robotics, and modular manufacturing specifically for small and medium shipyards, a niche industrial application rarely addressed in EU R&I.
• e-SHyIPS
  Addresses hydrogen standardisation on passenger ships — a regulatory and safety frontier with direct commercial implications as the EU pushes maritime decarbonisation mandates, and one where Ghenova's CFD and risk assessment skills are directly applicable.