UASABI INOVEYSHANS

Their core work

WASABI-INNOVATIONS LTD is a Sofia-based research SME whose defining technical thread is surfactant science and soap film engineering — a narrow but cross-domain capability they bring to different application fields. In SoFiA, they contributed this expertise toward artificial photosynthesis, exploring how soap film structures can facilitate light-driven energy conversion. In PROGENY, they applied the same materials knowledge to next-generation bionic devices, adding computational materials modelling, eco-toxicology, and life cycle assessment to their toolkit. The company functions as a specialist research contributor, embedding advanced soft-matter expertise into larger interdisciplinary consortia.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

This organisation entered H2020 with a focus squarely on renewable energy and supramolecular chemistry — using soap film structures to mimic photosynthesis for light-driven energy conversion. By its second project (PROGENY, 2021), the application domain had shifted markedly toward bionic and biomedical devices, while the underlying surfactant and soap film materials expertise remained constant. Alongside this pivot, two new competencies appeared: computational materials science and environmental assessment (eco-toxicology, LCA), suggesting the organisation is deliberately broadening its analytical toolkit beyond wet-lab chemistry.

WASABI-INNOVATIONS appears to be repositioning from pure energy research toward advanced materials for biomedical and bionic applications, using surfactant science as a portable core skill — a trajectory that could make them relevant to consortia in health technology, sustainable materials, or green chemistry.

How they like to work

WASABI-INNOVATIONS has participated exclusively as a consortium partner across both projects — they have never coordinated an H2020 project. This pattern is consistent with a specialist contributor model: they bring a defined technical niche (surfactant/soap film expertise) and integrate into larger teams rather than driving project strategy themselves. With 16 unique partners across just two projects, they operate in mid-to-large consortia and appear willing to work with diverse international partners rather than a fixed network.

The organisation has worked with 16 distinct consortium partners spanning 7 countries across two projects, pointing to a genuinely European collaboration footprint despite being a small Bulgarian SME. No recurring partner relationships can be identified from only two projects, so the network appears broadly open rather than anchored to fixed collaborators.

What sets them apart

WASABI-INNOVATIONS occupies a rare niche in Bulgaria's research SME landscape: they bring surfactant science and soap film engineering to FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) consortia, a specialisation that has very few equivalents at the national level. Their ability to translate soft-matter chemistry into both energy applications and bionic/biomedical contexts makes them a versatile connector across typically separate research communities. For consortium builders in green chemistry, sustainable materials, or next-generation device research, they represent a specific scientific competence that is genuinely hard to substitute.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PROGENY
  The organisation's largest project by far (EUR 405,950), addressing a highly interdisciplinary challenge — opto-electro-mechanical bionic devices — while also introducing environmental assessment competencies (eco-toxicology, LCA) not seen in the earlier project.
• SoFiA
  An ambitious FET project combining soap film physics with supramolecular photocatalysis to achieve artificial photosynthesis — a foundational project that established the organisation's identity in surfactant-based materials research.