Horizon Europe technology partner for climate and sustainability consortia

Consortia we shaped in 2026

In 2026 we shaped four Horizon Europe proposals with universities, NGOs, public agencies, cultural organisations and companies from 19 countries. In each one we developed the vision, concept and plan for the digital work, then worked it out with researchers, artists, communicators and data experts until it fit their science and their users.

ARIA: Artistic Intelligence Alliance

Call: HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-HERITAGE-01 · Research and Innovation Action, 36 months · 20 partners from 11 European countries and the US, coordinated by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Our role: technology partner for the whole project, lead of four tasks, co-lead of one.

ARIA wants to make art-science-technology collaboration repeatable: more than 100 use cases and over 1,000 meetings between artists and professionals. We developed the vision for its digital layer, a modular toolkit that grows into an open platform, with a compensated-service layer that pays artists fairly and keeps the platform running after the grant. We lead the first tool versions, the beta with AI-assisted matching and open APIs, the integrated platform, and the business model.

GARDEN: European green data sovereignty

Call: HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DATA-06 · Innovation Action, TRL 8, 36 months · 11 partners from France, Germany, Italy and the UK, coordinated by Institut Louis Bachelier.
Our role: lead of WP5 “Building a market-ready EU data solution”, the project’s product work package.

GARDEN builds a sovereign European alternative for climate and ESG data: a Climate Data Garden that collects, standardises, enriches and shares data, proven first in the mobility sector. We developed the product vision and planned the proof of concept and the MVP in lean, user-tested increments, with research covering ESG analysts, CSRD teams, data engineers and mobility stakeholders.

CLIMATE-TRUST: countering climate disinformation

Call: HORIZON-CL5-2026-07-D1-04 · Research and Innovation Action, 48 months · 15 partners from seven EU countries, the UK and Ukraine, coordinated by the Center for the Study of Democracy.
Our role: lead of WP8, the Arc monitoring and early-warning platform.

Local authorities, public agencies and newsrooms see climate disinformation spread faster than they can answer it. We developed the Arc Platform: a triage queue with narrative clustering and risk scoring, an evidence layer with source attribution, and response templates that answer without amplifying the claim. Instead of a fixed specification, we planned five experiment cycles, each testing one hypothesis with real users.

ANCHOR: climate narratives and public trust

Call: HORIZON-CL5-2026-07-D1-04 · Research and Innovation Action, 36 months · 9 partners from Italy, the UK, Switzerland, Norway and Germany, coordinated by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Our role: technology partner across five work packages, lead of Task 8.4, co-owner of the open-access evidence dashboard.

ANCHOR studies how “climate delay” narratives spread and affect trust in climate science. Ca’ Foscari invited us to turn this research into tools for policymakers, journalists and educators: an open-source pipeline that classifies posts from five platforms against the consortium’s narrative taxonomy, with reproducible, FAIR outputs, and nuanced evidence instead of simple true/false labels.

How we work with partners

• We start with the people who will use the result: personas, Jobs-to-be-Done and co-design workshops with partners and end users.
• We translate research questions into requirements, architecture and a work plan with tasks, deliverables and budgets that evaluators can follow.
• We plan in short, testable cycles, so the tools learn from every experiment and every partner.
• We write our own sections of Part A and Part B and help coordinators connect the work packages.

If the collaboration lane is still unclear (advisor, builder, competitor boundary), start with the Boundary & Product Sprint. If the need is a site file or a tender rather than a consortium, see EU Climate Resilience Framework readiness.