ICT AUTOMATISERING NEDERLAND BV

Their core work

ICT Automatisering Nederland is a Dutch private IT services and automation company that delivers digitalisation solutions for industrial and infrastructure sectors. Their H2020 participation shows applied engineering work — contributing to smart grid and EV battery storage systems in the energy domain, and building automation toolchains for industrial IoT in the digital domain. They bring the role of IT integrator: translating research prototypes and engineering frameworks into deployable digital systems. Their commercial base in automation ("automatisering" in Dutch) aligns with their project roles, where they appear as a practitioner embedding digital tools into real-world infrastructure.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their first H2020 engagement (2017–2019), ICT entered the EU research space through the energy sector — supporting smart renewable storage and EV battery systems as a third party, with no direct funding, suggesting a supporting or subcontracted technical role. By 2019, they shifted to a named participant role in a purely digital project (Arrowhead Tools), receiving direct EC funding and contributing to the engineering of digitalisation frameworks for industrial IoT. The trajectory is clear: from energy-adjacent IT support toward a core role in industrial automation tooling.

ICT is moving from peripheral energy-sector roles toward a defined position as a digitalisation engineering partner in industrial IoT — making them a relevant target for consortia building smart factory or Industry 4.0 automation pipelines.

How they like to work

ICT has never coordinated an H2020 project, consistently taking participant or third-party roles — they are a practitioner brought in for applied technical contribution rather than a research leader. Their projects are large Innovation Actions (IA), meaning they are comfortable operating in big, multi-partner delivery consortia. With 108 unique partners across 19 countries accumulated in just two projects, they are embedded in broad European networks rather than working with a tight recurring group.

Despite only two H2020 projects, ICT has touched 108 unique consortium partners across 19 countries — indicating both projects were large, geographically diverse Innovation Actions. No single country cluster is evident from the data, suggesting a pan-European network with no strong bilateral bias.

What sets them apart

ICT Automatisering Nederland is a commercially grounded IT automation company, not a university or research institute — which makes them attractive to consortia that need an industrial partner to demonstrate real-world applicability rather than theoretical output. Their dual exposure to both energy infrastructure and industrial IoT means they can bridge two sectors that are increasingly converging around smart grid and factory digitalisation. For a consortium building an Industry 4.0 or energy-digital integration use case, ICT offers the practitioner credibility that purely academic partners cannot.

Highlights from their portfolio

• Arrowhead Tools
  Their only directly funded H2020 project, focused on building toolchains for industrial IoT digitalisation — directly aligned with ICT's commercial automation business, making their contribution likely to translate into real products.
• INVADE
  Marks ICT's entry into EU research through a smart EV battery storage project, demonstrating early cross-sector positioning at the energy-digital intersection before it became mainstream.