HORIBA MIRA LIMITED

Their core work

HORIBA MIRA is a major automotive engineering, testing, and certification company based at the MIRA Technology Park in Nuneaton, UK. They provide vehicle safety assessment, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing, and powertrain evaluation services to the automotive and transport industries. In H2020, they contributed industry-grade test facilities and engineering expertise to research training networks focused on autonomous vehicle safety and electromagnetic risk management, as well as a transport research project on green vehicle benchmarking.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

HORIBA MIRA's H2020 participation spans a narrow window (2018–2019 start dates), making long-term evolution hard to assess. Their earlier entry (SAS, 2018) focused on autonomous systems safety and formal safety cases, while their 2019 projects shifted toward electromagnetic compatibility testing (PETER) and green vehicle indexing (GVI). This suggests a broadening from pure safety engineering toward environmental and electromagnetic dimensions of vehicle validation.

HORIBA MIRA is expanding from traditional vehicle safety into electromagnetic compliance and environmental performance assessment — areas increasingly critical as the automotive sector electrifies.

How they like to work

HORIBA MIRA operates exclusively as a participant, never leading H2020 consortia — consistent with a private-sector partner providing industry facilities and testing expertise to academic-led training networks. With 49 unique partners across 12 countries from just 3 projects, they join large, diverse consortia (typical of MSCA-ITN networks). This makes them an accessible industry partner who brings real-world test infrastructure rather than seeking to drive the research agenda.

Despite only 3 projects, HORIBA MIRA has worked with 49 distinct partners across 12 countries, reflecting the large consortium sizes of MSCA training networks. Their network spans broadly across Europe without a narrow geographic concentration.

What sets them apart

HORIBA MIRA brings something rare to EU consortia: a world-class, privately operated automotive proving ground and test facility combined with deep engineering services capability. Unlike universities that contribute theory, or SMEs that contribute niche software, MIRA offers physical test infrastructure for vehicle validation — EMC chambers, crash labs, autonomous vehicle test tracks. For any consortium needing an industry partner who can host researchers, validate prototypes, or provide real-world testing environments, they are a strong choice.

Highlights from their portfolio

• SAS
  Addressed the critical challenge of building safety cases for autonomous vehicles — directly relevant to the regulatory approval bottleneck facing the entire AV industry.
• PETER
  Pan-European training network on electromagnetic risk management, training the next generation of EMC engineers for an increasingly electrified vehicle market.
• GVI
  Received the highest single-project funding (EUR 326,194) and tackled the practical problem of how to benchmark and compare the environmental performance of vehicles.