SCIPEDIA SL

Their core work

SCIPEDIA is a Barcelona-based technology SME working at the intersection of open science infrastructure and researcher development. Their involvement in BE OPEN placed them inside a European-level effort to build an observatory and open science framework for the transport research community. Their subsequent contribution to prodPhD — a project creating social network tools for developing entrepreneurial skills in PhD programmes — suggests they bring digital platform or community-building capabilities to the research ecosystem. In practical terms, they appear to operate as a technology or platform provider that helps research communities publish, network, and develop professional skills beyond traditional academic careers.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

SCIPEDIA's two-project trajectory runs from open science dissemination infrastructure (BE OPEN, 2019–2021) toward researcher skills and career development tooling (prodPhD, 2021–2023). The early project left no extractable keywords, while the recent project is defined entirely by training and employment themes — entrepreneurship, skills development, and careers beyond academia. This is a short but coherent arc: from helping research reach the public to helping researchers reach the market.

SCIPEDIA appears to be moving toward the researcher-skills and science-to-industry pipeline space, which may position them well for future Horizon projects focused on innovation culture, doctoral training, or knowledge transfer.

How they like to work

SCIPEDIA has never led a project — both participations are in supporting roles (participant and third party), which is consistent with a small company contributing a specific platform or service rather than orchestrating a consortium. Despite only two projects, they have accumulated 27 unique consortium partners across 18 countries, suggesting they join well-connected, large Coordination and Support Actions rather than narrow technical consortia. This profile makes them a low-risk, flexible contributor for consortium builders who need a digital tools or science communication component.

Despite only two projects, SCIPEDIA has worked with 27 distinct partners spanning 18 countries — an unusually broad network for a two-project SME, reflecting the large multi-stakeholder consortia typical of CSA-type actions. Their reach is pan-European with no visible geographic concentration.

What sets them apart

SCIPEDIA occupies a specific and underserved niche: digital infrastructure and community tools for the research sector, sitting between open science platforms and researcher career development. Most H2020 SMEs specialize in technical R&D; SCIPEDIA's value proposition appears to be enabling science to communicate and transfer more effectively — which makes them a distinctive fit for consortia where dissemination, training, or researcher engagement is a work package. Their small size means low overhead and flexible contracting, which project coordinators tend to value for third-party roles.

Highlights from their portfolio

• BE OPEN
  Their largest funded project (EUR 61,250) and the only one where they held formal participant status, placing them inside a European-level transport open science observatory with a 27-partner consortium.
• prodPhD
  Notable for the topical shift it represents — moving into PhD entrepreneurship and skills-beyond-academia, a growing EU priority, with SCIPEDIA contributing as a third-party specialist rather than a funded partner.