UGROUND GLOBAL SL

Their core work

UGROUND GLOBAL SL is a Madrid-based technology SME specializing in low-code development platforms — software tools that allow business users and citizen developers to build applications without writing traditional code. Their technical foundation is model-driven engineering, a discipline that uses visual models and formal abstractions to generate software, making application creation accessible to non-programmers. In Lowcomote, a large pan-European MSCA training network, they contributed their industrial expertise to shaping the next generation of researchers working on scalable low-code platforms. They also pursued their own product direction through UDIGITAL, a project to build a digital marketplace designed to help SMEs find and adopt digital tools for business transformation.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both H2020 projects launched in 2019, which means there is no meaningful early-versus-late period to compare — the organization entered the EU funding system with two simultaneous bets rather than a multi-year arc. All recorded keywords (low-code platforms, citizen developers, collaborative development, model-driven engineering) come from the Lowcomote participation, which ran through 2023, while UDIGITAL left no keyword trace. What can be inferred is that UGROUND entered EU projects with a dual strategy: join a research training network to build scientific credibility, while running their own SME Instrument project to test a commercial product idea. Whether that commercial product (UDIGITAL) succeeded or pivoted after the short Phase 1 grant is unknown from this data.

With both projects starting in 2019 and no subsequent H2020 activity recorded, UGROUND's EU research engagement appears to have been a targeted entry rather than a sustained programme — a future partner should verify current product focus directly, as the company may have matured commercially beyond the project scope.

How they like to work

UGROUND has played both roles in H2020: coordinator on the smaller SME Instrument project (UDIGITAL) and participant in the large Lowcomote MSCA training network. Their Lowcomote participation placed them inside a consortium of 14+ partners across 7 countries, which is a notably broad network for a company of their size. This suggests they are comfortable operating inside large, international research consortia as an industrial partner bringing platform expertise, while also capable of leading smaller, commercially oriented projects independently.

Across just two projects, UGROUND built connections with 14 unique partners spanning 7 countries, driven largely by Lowcomote's wide European training network. Their geographic footprint is European, with no recorded focus on any single country cluster.

What sets them apart

UGROUND is unusual for a Spanish private SME in that they secured a place inside an MSCA Innovative Training Network — a programme typically dominated by universities and research institutes — indicating that their low-code platform technology was considered academically credible enough to train PhD-level researchers. At the same time, they pursued a parallel commercial track via the SME Instrument, which signals a company trying to bridge research and product simultaneously. For a consortium builder, this dual positioning means UGROUND can serve as the industrial reality-check inside a research-heavy consortium, especially in software tools and developer productivity projects.

Highlights from their portfolio

• Lowcomote
  A EUR 284,080 MSCA Innovative Training Network spanning 14+ partners and 7 countries — notable because private SMEs rarely secure places in Marie Curie doctoral training programmes, signalling strong academic recognition of UGROUND's technical platform.
• UDIGITAL
  Coordinated independently by UGROUND under the SME Instrument Phase 1 scheme, demonstrating their ability to lead EU projects and their commercial ambition to productize digital tools for SME adoption.