Success stories

With BATARYASAN being a company that designs and manufactures battery-based technologies with hydrogen-based industries, a high level of funding is required to be sustainable.

Advised by the Enterprise Europe Network, Greek environmental technology SME Draxis led an EU-funded study into a high-tech irrigation management system that could revolutionise the way farmers worldwide are charged for water.

Scottish company Scotmas set its sights on Turkey as a destination for its water treatment, hygiene and environmental care products.

Keeping the bugs at bay poses a challenge for organic farms that shun pesticides. But help is on the way: a small Turkish plastics maker has developed an environmentally friendly bug trap, under an EU research project it learned about from the Enterprise Europe Network.

Since 2006, all new trucks and buses in the EU have had to carry digital tachographs, devices that record speed, distance and driver activity. That same year in Verona, Italy, former software architect and project manager Dr Claudio Carrano founded Infogestweb.