SINERGISE LABORATORIJ ZA GEOGRAFSKEINFORMACIJSKE SISTEME DOO

Their core work

Sinergise is a Slovenian geospatial technology company that builds platforms and services for processing, analyzing, and distributing Earth observation data at scale. They are best known for creating tools that turn raw satellite imagery (especially from Copernicus Sentinel missions) into actionable information — for environmental monitoring, agricultural policy compliance, and geospatial data marketplaces. Their work sits at the intersection of big data infrastructure and applied remote sensing, serving both public agencies (e.g., EU agricultural payments) and commercial clients needing geospatial analytics.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Sinergise's early H2020 work (2016–2018) centered on cloud infrastructure and open science platforms — contributing to EOSC-hub and foundational EO data access tools like openEO. From 2019 onward, their focus shifted decisively toward applied Earth observation: agricultural policy compliance (NIVA, DIONE), environmental monitoring (Water-ForCE, Goldeneye), and large-scale change detection (GEM). The trajectory shows a company that moved from building the plumbing for EO data to delivering domain-specific applications on top of it.

Sinergise is moving toward operational, domain-specific Earth observation applications — particularly in agricultural policy enforcement and environmental change detection — which signals readiness for deployment-focused partnerships rather than pure R&D.

How they like to work

Sinergise predominantly joins as a technology partner (10 of 12 projects) rather than leading consortia, though they have coordinated two projects (EO-VAS and PerceptiveSentinel) where they drove the core platform development. With 210 unique partners across 40 countries, they operate as a well-connected specialist that plugs into diverse consortia rather than repeatedly partnering with the same groups. This makes them an accessible and experienced partner — they know how EU consortia work and can integrate quickly into new teams.

With 210 unique consortium partners spread across 40 countries, Sinergise has one of the broadest collaboration networks for a Slovenian SME. Their reach is firmly pan-European with no obvious geographic bias, reflecting the cross-border nature of Earth observation work.

What sets them apart

Sinergise occupies a rare position as an SME that can both build scalable geospatial data infrastructure and deliver domain-specific applications on top of it — most companies do one or the other. Their dual expertise in platform engineering and applied EO analytics makes them valuable to consortia that need a partner who can process satellite data at scale AND translate it into tools for non-technical users like agricultural agencies. For a company of roughly 50 people based in Ljubljana, their EUR 5.2M in H2020 funding and 40-country network is remarkably strong.

Highlights from their portfolio

• GEM
  Largest single EC contribution (EUR 1.33M) focused on continuous global Earth monitoring and automated change detection — their most ambitious technical challenge.
• PerceptiveSentinel
  One of two projects they coordinated, building a big data knowledge extraction platform from Sentinel satellite imagery — demonstrates their platform-building capability.
• NIVA
  Directly modernizes the EU's agricultural payments control system (IACS) using Earth observation — high policy impact and clear path to operational deployment.