SMALLE TECHNOLOGIES SL

Their core work

Smalle Technologies is a Barcelona-based technology SME that develops compact wave energy converters for off-grid marine applications. Their core product line — the eForcis and BeForcis generators — harvests energy from ocean waves to power marine buoys, navigation aids, and aquaculture fish farm infrastructure. Rather than targeting large-scale grid electricity generation, they focus on the niche but commercially real problem of powering remote marine devices that currently rely on batteries or diesel. Their H2020 trajectory follows a textbook SME Instrument path: feasibility study in 2016, followed by a full development and commercialization project running through 2020.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Smalle Technologies entered H2020 in 2016 with a focused feasibility study on wave energy generators for marine buoys — a proof-of-concept exploration. By 2017 they secured a Phase 2 development grant, expanding the commercial application scope to include aquaculture fish farms alongside buoys, suggesting the market validation exercise pointed toward aquaculture as a concrete paying sector. The recent keyword set is empty, which likely reflects data indexing rather than a change in direction — the project title confirms continuity. There is no evidence of a pivot; this is a company that deepened a single technology bet rather than diversifying.

Smalle Technologies is moving from proof-of-concept hardware toward commercial deployment in aquaculture, which suggests their next collaboration interests likely sit at the intersection of marine renewable energy, fish farm automation, and off-grid power supply rather than in utility-scale ocean energy.

How they like to work

Smalle Technologies has acted exclusively as project coordinator across both H2020 grants, which is unusual for an SME and signals strong internal project management capability and direct ownership of their technology roadmap. Both projects appear to have been executed without recorded consortium partners, consistent with SME Instrument solo applications where the company drives commercialization independently. Working with them likely means engaging them as a technology provider or product company rather than as a research partner seeking to co-develop from scratch.

Based on available H2020 data, Smalle Technologies has no recorded consortium partners and has not collaborated across national boundaries within the EU framework projects. Their H2020 engagement was entirely self-directed through the SME Instrument, which by design favors solo company applications.

What sets them apart

Smalle Technologies occupies a very specific niche: small-scale wave energy conversion for powering marine infrastructure, not for feeding electricity grids. Most ocean energy companies target megawatt-scale grid generation; Smalle targets the unglamorous but commercially immediate problem of keeping a fish farm or a navigation buoy running without diesel or battery swaps. For any consortium working on marine autonomy, blue economy infrastructure, or sustainable aquaculture, they bring a ready hardware solution rather than early-stage research.

Highlights from their portfolio

• eForcis and BeForcis
  A €999K SME Instrument Phase 2 grant — the highest-tier EU SME commercialization award — confirming external validation that their wave energy generator concept had real market potential, particularly for aquaculture applications.
• eForcis
  The Phase 1 feasibility project that launched their EU-funded technology path, demonstrating the company's ability to identify a fundable niche in wave energy and secure competitive EU grant funding as a solo SME coordinator.