INNOVATION & SAFETY SL

Their core work

Innovation & Safety SL is a Spanish technology SME focused on building digital emergency response systems for road accident victims. Their core product — the E-RESCUE system — addresses the "Golden Hour" problem: the critical window after a crash where rapid, coordinated rescue dramatically improves survival outcomes. They develop technology that connects accident scenes to emergency services faster and more effectively than traditional dispatch methods. Their work sits at the intersection of vehicle safety, emergency medicine logistics, and digital communications infrastructure.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Innovation & Safety SL has a single, tightly focused trajectory: they identified a specific problem in road accident rescue in 2016 and spent the entire H2020 period developing one solution through two sequential EU funding stages. In 2016 they completed an SME Phase 1 feasibility study to validate the concept; by 2019 they secured Phase 2 funding to build and commercialize the full product. There is no keyword drift or sector pivot — this is a company that bet everything on one technology and used EU instruments as a structured product development runway.

Having completed SME Phase 2 by 2022 with €2.26M in development funding, they are likely now in commercial deployment or seeking industry partnerships with emergency services, automotive OEMs, or telecom infrastructure providers.

How they like to work

Innovation & Safety SL exclusively leads projects — both H2020 grants were coordinated by them with no consortium partners, which is typical of SME Instrument grants where a single company owns the IP and drives development. This means they are not experienced consortium partners in multi-beneficiary projects and likely prefer bilateral agreements or subcontracting arrangements. Any future collaboration would most likely position them as a technology provider or specialist contributor, not a co-equal research partner.

Their H2020 record shows zero registered consortium partners and no multi-country collaboration — both grants were single-beneficiary SME Instrument awards. Their network, if any, is informal and not reflected in EU project data.

What sets them apart

Innovation & Safety SL is one of the few SMEs in Europe that has taken a road accident rescue solution through the full SME Instrument pipeline — from Phase 1 concept validation to Phase 2 commercial-scale development — within a single H2020 cycle. Their focus on the Golden Hour rescue problem is narrow, but that specificity is a strength: they are not a general safety consultancy but a company that has built, tested, and refined one product with €2.3M in EU backing. For any organization working on connected vehicle safety, emergency dispatch modernization, or eCall-adjacent systems, they represent a potentially ready technology partner with a validated solution.

Highlights from their portfolio

• E-RESCUE
  The largest grant awarded to this organization (€2.26M under SME Phase 2), representing a full commercial-scale development of their post-accident rescue platform — rare for a micro-SME from a small Spanish town.
• ERESCUE
  The Phase 1 feasibility project that proved the concept and unlocked Phase 2 funding, demonstrating a disciplined use of EU SME Instrument as a structured product development pathway.