YODFAT ENGINEERS (1994) LTD

Their core work

Yodfat Engineers is an Israeli engineering SME with over 30 years of experience designing control systems and engineered solutions for industrial and agricultural applications. In H2020, they demonstrated two distinct competencies: developing smart IoT-based irrigation control systems targeting significant water savings for field agriculture, and contributing engineering integration expertise to large-scale membrane development projects for industrial CO2 capture. Their role in the GENESIS project — a €9M+ Innovation Action — signals that they bring practical engineering and systems integration capability to advanced materials research consortia. They bridge the gap between laboratory-developed materials (MOFs, IPOSS) and deployable industrial solutions.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Yodfat's two-project H2020 trajectory shows a clear pivot in domain focus. Their first project (2016) was squarely in precision agriculture — a sensor-driven control system for water management, where they acted as consortium leader. By 2018 they had joined a large industrial research consortium focused on advanced membrane materials for CO2 separation, a technically unrelated domain. This shift suggests the company is opportunistic in applying its core engineering and systems integration skills to wherever funded R&D demand exists, rather than building depth in a single technology vertical.

Yodfat appears to be moving toward industrial decarbonization and advanced materials applications, which is where the bulk of their recent EU funding and technical exposure lies.

How they like to work

Yodfat has demonstrated both leading and following roles: they coordinated a small SME Phase 1 feasibility project (IRRISAVE, €50K) and joined a large multi-partner Innovation Action (GENESIS, €1.6M to them alone). Their 18 consortium partners across 8 countries — built from just two projects — indicates they integrated into a sizable international consortium rather than working with a tight recurring network. This profile suggests they are a flexible consortium partner willing to adapt their role to project needs.

Despite only two H2020 projects, Yodfat has connected with 18 distinct partners across 8 countries, almost entirely driven by the large GENESIS consortium. Their network is geographically spread but not deeply repeated — typical of an SME that joins large consortia as a specialist rather than anchoring a recurring research network.

What sets them apart

Yodfat is a rare Israeli engineering SME that has successfully bridged two distinct sectors — precision agriculture and industrial gas separation — within EU-funded R&D. For consortium builders, they offer an outside-Europe perspective (Israel is associated to Horizon) combined with practical engineering integration skills that translate laboratory materials science into deployable systems. Their willingness to operate as both project leader and consortium participant makes them a versatile partner for consortia that need an engineering SME with cross-sector flexibility.

Highlights from their portfolio

• GENESIS
  Largest project by far at €1.6M EC funding — a major Innovation Action on next-generation CO2 capture membranes using MOF and IPOSS materials, running 2018–2022.
• IRRISAVE
  Coordinator role on an SME Phase 1 project, showing entrepreneurial ambition to lead EU projects independently with a concrete water-saving value proposition.