SOLIGHT LTD

Their core work

Solight is an Israeli SME developing the SOLIS system — a technology that captures natural sunlight and distributes it into indoor spaces to replace conventional artificial lighting. Their work targets a fundamental inefficiency: buildings that receive sunlight on the outside still consume electricity for lighting inside. The company progressed through the full EU SME Instrument pipeline, moving from a feasibility study in 2016 to a funded innovation project running through 2019, suggesting they achieved proof of concept and moved into product development. Their focus is commercial deployment of solar daylighting technology across a range of indoor building types.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Solight's H2020 participation is entirely concentrated on a single technology — the SOLIS solar indoor lighting system — across just two years (2016–2017 project starts). There is no meaningful keyword shift or topical diversification to analyze: both projects carry identical descriptions and no structured keyword data was recorded. The only observable evolution is the progression from a Phase 1 feasibility study to a larger Phase 2 development project, which signals growing confidence in the technology's commercial viability rather than a change in direction.

Solight appears to be a single-product deep-tech SME scaling one specific innovation; any future collaboration would most likely be in building integration, smart lighting systems, or energy-efficient construction rather than a pivot to a new domain.

How they like to work

Solight operated exclusively as a solo coordinator under the SME Instrument scheme, which is designed for individual companies rather than consortia — so zero consortium partners is expected and does not indicate isolation. They have no recorded experience working within multi-partner research networks. Anyone considering them as a collaboration partner should expect a company focused on its own product roadmap rather than a consortium-building mindset.

Solight has no recorded consortium partners or cross-border collaborations within H2020. This is structurally consistent with the SME Instrument format, which funds single-company projects rather than multi-partner consortia.

What sets them apart

Solight is one of very few Israeli SMEs to have completed the full H2020 SME Instrument cycle (Phase 1 + Phase 2) in the solar daylighting niche — a sub-sector distinct from photovoltaics or solar thermal. Their differentiation lies in the specific technical challenge of transmitting and distributing captured sunlight inside buildings, rather than converting it to electricity. For a consortium needing a technology provider in passive or hybrid solar building systems, they represent a focused, commercially oriented option with validated EU funding history.

Highlights from their portfolio

• SOLIS
  The Phase 2 SOLIS project (2017–2019, €1,064,438) is notable as the largest SME Instrument Phase 2 grant in this dataset for Solight, representing the full commercial development push for their solar indoor lighting technology.
• SOLIS
  The Phase 1 SOLIS feasibility study (2016, €50,000) is notable because successfully completing Phase 1 and advancing directly to Phase 2 is achieved by a minority of SME Instrument applicants, indicating competitive technical and business case validation.