STICKYDOT SRL

Their core work

STICKYDOT SRL is a Brussels-based private company specialising in responsible research and innovation (RRI) practices, co-creation methodologies, and open science communication. They help research projects and organisations engage non-academic actors — citizens, businesses, policymakers — in the design and governance of innovation processes. In the MOSAIC project they led efforts to embed mission-oriented approaches and quadruple-helix co-creation into EU-funded research programmes. In ENJOI they supported journalism innovation and open science communication, bridging the gap between researchers and the public.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

STICKYDOT's two H2020 projects both ran in the same period (2021–2023), so there is no meaningful temporal evolution to trace within this dataset. Their keyword profile is entirely concentrated in the first project set — RRI, co-creation, SwafS, quadruple-helix, open innovation — with no new terms emerging in the second half. This suggests a tightly focused, consistent specialisation rather than a diversifying trajectory.

With only two concurrent projects in a single funding window, the trend signal is unclear — but their consistent focus on RRI and public engagement suggests they are positioning as a specialist process facilitator for Horizon Europe missions and open science mandates.

How they like to work

STICKYDOT has taken the coordinator role in one project and the participant role in another, showing capacity for both leading and supporting roles. Their consortia are small-to-medium (11 unique partners across 2 projects, spanning 6 countries), suggesting they work in focused, specialist teams rather than large industrial consortia. This points to an organisation that prefers depth of engagement over breadth of partnership.

STICKYDOT has collaborated with 11 unique partners across 6 countries, a modest but geographically spread European network. Their Brussels base gives them proximity to EU institutions, which likely amplifies their relevance in policy-facing RRI and science governance projects.

What sets them apart

STICKYDOT occupies a niche at the intersection of EU science policy and participatory innovation practice — a rare combination for a private SME rather than an academic or NGO. Their Brussels location and demonstrated ability to coordinate EU-funded projects in the SwafS/RRI space makes them a credible process partner for consortia that need to satisfy public engagement and open science requirements. For organisations building Horizon Europe missions or citizen science components, STICKYDOT brings both methodological expertise and institutional proximity to EU frameworks.

Highlights from their portfolio

• MOSAIC
  STICKYDOT coordinated this project — their largest at EUR 384,375 — which directly addressed how EU research missions can embed co-creation and quadruple-helix approaches, making it the clearest statement of their core competence.
• ENJOI
  As a participant in a journalism and open science communication project, ENJOI shows STICKYDOT can contribute beyond RRI process design into the public communication and science-media interface.