SAMUI FRANCE SARL

Their core work

SAMUI FRANCE SARL is a small French private company based in the Alpine municipality of Saint Jean d'Aulps (Haute-Savoie), a region with significant hydropower heritage. Their H2020 participation suggests consultancy or advisory involvement rather than laboratory research — they contributed to a European hydropower platform building a technology roadmap, and to an EU-Latin America policy and science cooperation initiative. With only two projects in quite different domains, their exact commercial activity is not clearly derivable from project data alone. Their Alpine location and engagement in the HYDROPOWER-EUROPE platform points toward regional energy or mountain territory expertise as their likely core business.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In the first phase of their H2020 participation (2016-2019), SAMUI was engaged in international science diplomacy and policy work — specifically the EU-CELAC relationship covering cultural and social dimensions. By 2018, their focus shifted entirely to energy: renewable energy, hydropower, and technology roadmapping. This pivot from international policy cooperation toward energy sector work may reflect a deliberate repositioning toward their Alpine regional context, where hydropower is economically and geographically relevant.

Their trajectory points toward renewable energy and hydropower — a natural fit given their Alpine location — suggesting that future collaborations in flexible energy storage, mountain water resources, or regional energy transition are most likely.

How they like to work

SAMUI has participated exclusively as a consortium member, never as a project coordinator, across both H2020 projects. Despite their small size, they have engaged with a remarkably broad network — 32 unique partners across 18 countries — suggesting they join large, multi-stakeholder platforms rather than tight specialist teams. This profile is typical of regional actors or consultancies that contribute local knowledge, stakeholder access, or sector-specific context to broader European initiatives.

SAMUI has built connections with 32 partners across 18 countries through just two projects, indicating participation in large pan-European consortia. Their geographic reach extends well beyond France, with the EULAC Focus project likely bringing in Latin American and Caribbean institutional links as well.

What sets them apart

SAMUI is an Alpine French SME with a footprint in both renewable energy platforms and international science cooperation — an unusual combination for a company of this size. Their location in the Haute-Savoie region, one of France's historic hydropower territories, gives them potential credibility as a voice for mountain and small-scale hydro energy contexts. However, with only two completed projects and no coordinator experience, their positioning as a research partner remains narrow and their added value in future consortia should be verified directly.

Highlights from their portfolio

• HYDROPOWER-EUROPE
  The larger and more recent of their two projects, this platform-building initiative focused on creating a European technology roadmap for hydropower — strategically relevant to the energy transition debate and aligned with their Alpine regional context.
• EULAC Focus
  Their highest-funded project (EUR 643,420) and an outlier thematically — a science diplomacy and cultural cooperation initiative between the EU and Latin America/Caribbean, suggesting a broader international network than their energy work alone implies.