STICHTING EUROPEAN SERVICE NETWORK OF MATHEMATICS FOR INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION

Their core work

EU-MATHS-IN (the network behind this foundation) is a Netherlands-registered European association whose core purpose is connecting the applied mathematics research community with industry — acting as a bridge between university mathematicians and companies that need computational solutions to engineering, financial, or biomedical problems. In H2020, they contributed to projects on mathematical modelling, simulation, and optimization, with applications ranging from power network management and blast furnace control to computational finance and biomedical flow modelling. As a network organization rather than a research group, their primary value is convening and coordinating: they mobilize pan-European mathematical expertise and route it to problems where it can generate measurable industrial impact. They are not a company selling a product but an ecosystem organizer ensuring that advanced mathematical methods — particularly reduced order modelling and multi-scale simulation — reach sectors that need them.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their first H2020 project, MSO4SC (2016–2018), addressed mathematical modelling and scientific computing broadly — a wide-scope infrastructure project for societal challenges with no dominant application domain. Their second involvement, ROMSOC (2017–2022), marked a clear sharpening of technical identity toward reduced order modelling and coupled-system simulation, a more precise and mathematically rigorous specialization. The ROMSOC keyword set — blast furnaces, pulsative blood pumps, adaptive optics, power networks — reveals a deliberate strategy: rather than deepening in one sector, they anchored their identity in a mathematical technique (ROM) that can be deployed across many sectors simultaneously.

They are positioning reduced order modelling as their signature cross-sector method, making them an increasingly specific technical partner for any consortium that needs efficient computational surrogates of complex physical or financial systems.

How they like to work

They have held zero coordinator roles in H2020, consistently joining as participant or third-party partner — a pattern consistent with their identity as a network facilitator rather than a principal investigator. Despite only two projects, they engaged with 32 unique partners across 12 countries, a footprint far larger than project count suggests, reflecting the convening power of a European network organization. Working with them means getting access to a pre-assembled community of applied mathematicians rather than a single team, which is valuable for dissemination, training, and finding specialist sub-contractors.

With 32 unique consortium partners across 12 countries from just two projects, their network density is unusually high relative to their project portfolio, reflecting the organization's explicit mission as a European connector. Their reach is continental and weighted toward industrial mathematics communities in Western and Central Europe.

What sets them apart

As a dedicated European NGO for mathematics-industry transfer, they occupy a structural niche that universities and companies cannot fill: they exist specifically to route mathematical expertise to industrial problems, and their value proposition is the network itself, not a specific research output. A consortium that includes them gains a built-in dissemination channel to the European applied mathematics community and access to specialists across many application domains. For project coordinators who need mathematical modelling components touching multiple sectors, they offer breadth and community reach that no single university group can match.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ROMSOC
  A 5-year MSCA Industrial Training Network (2017–2022) that put reduced order modelling to work across six distinct industrial domains simultaneously — from financial risk to biomedical engineering to optics — making it the clearest demonstration of the network's cross-sector mathematics strategy.
• MSO4SC
  Their only funded H2020 participation (EUR 96,000), focused on building scientific computing infrastructure for mathematical modelling and optimization — an early signal of their infrastructure and community-building role before deeper technical specialization.