Success Stories

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In the green driver’s seat

FranceFrance
 
Access to EU funding |
13 May 2013
Guided by the Enterprise Europe Network, a French textile SME is helping design car seats made from recycled materials as part of a project co-financed by the EU’s Eco-innovation initiative.

Restocking the Baltic Sea

GermanyGermany
 
Access to EU funding |
1 March 2013
At short notice, the Enterprise Europe Network helps a German state-owned company assemble a winning consortium for a research project on sustainable fisheries management.

German-Spanish partnership to save energy in office buildings

GermanyGermany
SpainSpain
 
Access to EU funding | ICT Industry & Services
4 September 2012
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany are developing a knowledge-based system to improve energy efficiency in public buildings. Now with €3.2 million in EU funding, they are working to adapt it to complex buildings like offices in cities across Europe.

New waterways for business and research

GermanyGermany
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
 
Access to EU funding | Environment
17 August 2012
The Enterprise Europe Network helps a research centre in the UK team up with a German University to examine water management across the EU. With €3.5 million in EU funding, the ATWARM project will provide scientific knowledge and training to 16 young researchers.

Network helps noise-barrier innovation win EU funding

CroatiaCroatia
 
Access to EU funding | Materials
22 June 2012
The Zagreb Zoo, home to more than 2,200 animals, is walking distance from the city centre. But the convenient location also has its downside: all the noise pollution from nearby road and tram traffic. To solve the problem, the University of Zagreb's civil engineering faculty is researching a new type of noise barrier made from recycled tyres.

Mega challenge for nano consortium

AustriaAustria
ItalyItaly
 
Access to EU funding | Nano- and Microtechnologies
8 June 2012
Dr Christoph Heinzl and his team from the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences are working on an EU-sponsored research project to design and produce a technology platform able to perform comprehensive structural and chemical evaluations of nanomaterials. The Enterprise Europe Network helped the team to replace a key technology partner when it unexpectedly stepped down during the application for funding.

Uncorking new possibilities

GermanyGermany
SpainSpain
 
Access to EU funding | Agrofood
1 March 2012
Brought together by the Enterprise Europe Network, a Spanish SME has teamed up with German researchers in an EU-funded project to prevent contamination in wine corks.

Green locks find the key to EU funding

GermanyGermany
 
Access to EU funding | Environment
18 January 2012
Berlin firm Horatio has invented an eco-efficient locking system for office and hotel doors, called GreenAccess. The Enterprise Europe Network helped the firm to open its doors to EU funding opportunities.

Planting the seeds for an organic future

BulgariaBulgaria
GreeceGreece
 
Access to EU funding | Agrofood
18 January 2012
Despite growing consumer demand for organic foods, new producers face huge costs when they market their products. Thanks to the Enterprise Europe Network, agrofood SMEs in Greece and Bulgaria will get help through an EU-funded branding scheme.

Testing the waters for irrigation innovation

GreeceGreece
TurkeyTurkey
 
Access to EU funding |
18 January 2012
Advised by the Enterprise Europe Network, Greek environmental technology SME Draxis is leading a study into a high-tech irrigation management system that could revolutionise the way farmers worldwide are charged for water.

Linking up to save lives

SwedenSweden
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
 
Technology transfer | Healthcare
1 December 2011
Acute myeloid leukaemia is a rare blood cancer that progresses rapidly in the body and can cause death within months or weeks if untreated. Thanks to the Enterprise Europe Network, two SMEs are researching a promising new treatment, supported by €500,000 in EU funding.

Shining a light on new research

ItalyItaly
 
Access to EU funding | Nano- and Microtechnologies
9 November 2011
The Enterprise Europe Network helped an Italian firm land EU funding for groundbreaking research designed to replicate the light from the sun indoors.

Reading between the lines

fYRoMfYRoM
HungaryHungary
 
Access to EU funding |
31 October 2011
Arthaus is a Skopje-based IT firm that develops tailor-made software solutions for SMEs. Through the Enterprise Europe Network, it won EU research funding to help pioneer applications for the visually impaired.

Opportunities mushroom for imaging firm

CyprusCyprus
 
Access to EU funding | Agrofood
5 April 2011
Mushrooms mean big business in Europe, with an annual output of about 1.2 million tonnes. With more than €1 million in EU research funding, the 'Champi-ON' initiative will develop a fully automatic system for picking mushrooms to be sold fresh.

Small firm lights the way with EU funding

SloveniaSlovenia
 
Access to EU funding |
31 March 2011
Being blind or deaf should not prevent anyone from getting a job, according to Ozara, a Slovenian firm specialised in the training, employment and social inclusion of people with disabilities. Guided by the Enterprise Europe Network, Ozara is leading an EU-funded pilot training project for disabled individuals in the ceramics sector.

Partners for a worthy cause

GermanyGermany
ItalyItaly
 
Access to EU funding | Healthcare
22 December 2010
Guided by the Enterprise Europe Network, a tiny Italian company that designs high-precision sensors for the aerospace and environmental industries has teamed up with a German biotechnology firm to develop a biosensor with huge implications for stem-cell research.

From car parts to biomedical research

ItalyItaly
SpainSpain
 
Access to EU funding | Automotive, Transport and Logistics
22 December 2010
The human body is a lot like a car: both have moving parts, which sometimes need help to function properly. That is the rationale behind an EU-funded international research project in which an Italian SME advised by the Enterprise Europe Network is applying its mechanical expertise to the world of biomedical research.

Building an eco-friendly fly trap

HungaryHungary
TurkeyTurkey
 
Access to EU funding | Agrofood
22 December 2010
Blood-sucking horse flies can wreak havoc on farms, inflicting painful bites on cows, horses and other animals. Besides being a nuisance, the insects disturb animals' natural grazing patterns and cause severe daily blood loss, leading to reduced meat and milk output. They can also pose dangers to humans.

Helping doctors diagnose strokes

BelgiumBelgium
GermanyGermany
 
Access to EU funding | Healthcare
22 December 2010
Every year, some 650 000 Europeans die from strokes, triggered when the blood supply to a part of the brain is blocked or severely reduced. Multitel, a Belgian research institute, is helping develop an innovative new photonic chip to prevent strokes in an EU-funded research partnership made possible by the Enterprise Europe Network.

Biotech SME compounds research efforts

GermanyGermany
 
Access to EU funding | BioChemTech
22 December 2010
NeuroProof was established in 2007 as a spinoff of the University of Rostock's animal physiology department in northern Germany. Its founders, Alexandra Gramowski and Olaf Schröder, have won international recognition for research that may lead to the development of new pain-relief drugs.