SOLITA OY

Their core work

Solita is a Finnish digital services and data company that builds technology platforms and data-driven tools for complex societal and organizational challenges. In EU research, they contribute software engineering, data architecture, and digital product development capabilities to large multi-partner consortia. Their most substantial EU project role — PSLifestyle — involved co-creating a citizen-facing digital tool to help Europeans track and reduce their consumption carbon footprint through behavior change mechanisms and living lab methodology. They bring practical digital delivery muscle to research consortia that need someone to actually build the thing the research describes.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Solita's H2020 participation opens with a peripheral role in SECREDAS, a cybersecurity project for automated systems where their €17,500 EC share signals a narrow, specialist sub-task rather than a defining engagement. The full weight of their EU research identity lands with PSLifestyle, where keywords shift entirely to sustainable lifestyles, behavior change, living labs, and citizen science — themes that align tightly with Solita's known commercial work in data and digital services for public-sector and sustainability clients. The trajectory is clear: they entered EU research through an ICT/security angle and pivoted toward climate-linked digital tools for citizen behavior change.

Solita is moving deeper into climate action and sustainable consumption technology, positioning their digital delivery capability as infrastructure for the EU's behavioral sustainability agenda.

How they like to work

Solita has never led an H2020 project — they join as participant in large consortia where their role is to deliver digital product or data platform components defined by the research design. Their 90 unique partners across just 2 projects reflects the scale of the consortia they join rather than a broad independent network they have built. For a potential partner, this means Solita is reliable as a technical delivery contributor but will not drive the research agenda or manage the consortium.

Solita has touched 90 unique consortium partners across 20 countries, almost entirely through the large PSLifestyle consortium. Their network is wide in headcount but shallow in depth — no evidence of repeated partners or a tight collaboration cluster they return to.

What sets them apart

Solita is unusual among Finnish H2020 participants in that they are a commercially scaled digital services company — not a university or research institute — bringing production-grade software and data engineering into research consortia. This makes them valuable when a project needs its output to become a real, deployable tool rather than a prototype or white paper. Their PSLifestyle engagement shows they can operate at the intersection of climate policy, citizen science methodology, and digital product delivery, a combination few commercial companies bring to EU-funded projects.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PSLifestyle
  By far their largest EU engagement (€396,248 EC contribution), combining citizen science, living labs, carbon footprint data, and behavior change into a co-created sustainable lifestyle platform — a rare mix of climate action and digital product development.
• SECREDAS
  Their entry into H2020 via a cybersecurity-for-automated-systems project reveals a separate technical capability in safety-critical and cross-domain security, distinct from their sustainability work, though participation was minimal.