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Blackswan Space is a Lithuanian aerospace company that aims to make satellites and satellite operations autonomous. Using robotics combined with artificial intelligence (AI) as well as computer simulation technology, the company’s products enable effective mission planning for autonomous satellite constellations and autonomous satellite navigation in space. This in turn enables satellite repair, refuelling, collision avoidance and other use cases where human intervention is either not possible or not desired.

By Richard Pallardy

In 1998, the North East of England sowed the seed of sustainable innovation in the mind of a Norwegian university student. Twenty-seven years later, Wastefront co-founder, Christian Hvamstad, has returned to Sunderland with a business recycling tyres for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

Precision agriculture is giving farmers an edge to digitise their farm management operations while also staying ahead of nasty diseases that could hurt crop yields. Using cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Croatian company, AGRIVI, is leading the charge with powerful solutions designed to help farmers in an area where they sorely need a digital boost.

By David Silverberg

Circu Li-ion, a Luxembourg-based startup, is building the future of automation with a robot that breaks apart lithium-ion batteries to recycle and re-use the components.

Key messages:

1. EU and national funding need to better align to generate the scale of investment in innovation that will restart Europe’s excellence-based competitiveness engine. Eureka, through the Innovative SME Partnership, is a very efficient vehicle for delivering on this objective, as it has a leverage effect of 1:7 for the funds provided by the EU, realised by mobilising national and regional funding and nearly one billion euro in private investment over the seven years of Horizon Europe. This model should be enhanced under FP10.
2. Young, dynamic businesses must maintain a high pace of development to be competitive in the generation of disruptive innovations. The EU needs to provide lean, agile programmes and reduce the administrative burden, both on end beneficiaries and on the partnerships providing support.
3. FP10 needs to enable simple pathways across programmes for dynamic businesses to seamlessly benefit from complementary support schemes on their way to technology and market leadership. Furthermore, it needs to clarify its position in global innovation pathways and value chains if it aims to reassure startups and scaleups ready to go global.

Read the full position paper

Salvia BioElectronics, a Dutch medical device company, has designed an ultra-thin implant that promises relief to those suffering from chronic migraine and cluster headaches. The device is implanted just below the skin at the front and back of the head and uses mild electrical impulses to calm oversensitive nerves that trigger these debilitating conditions.

By Richard Pallardy

Eureka’s Global Innovation Summit in 2025 wrapped up with more than 900 attendees from over 50 countries. Organised by Eureka’s Canadian and German Co-Chair to take place within Hannover Messe on 1 and 2 April, Eureka’s flagship event had insightful keynote speeches, panel discussions, Eureka Academy and country sessions and plenty of networking, matchmaking and pitching platforms.

During today’s Eureka Global Innovation Summit, Claudia Müller, Parliamentary State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), called for “bold and ambitious action” to tackle the global crises and conflicts that threaten our future.

Automobile manufacturers are at an inflection point in their business. They recognise driverless cars are gaining momentum but maintain an approach to engineering that is traditional and rooted in the past. With the help of Hungarian software solutions provider, aiMotive, car companies can energise the automotive sector with software focused on testing artificial intelligence-powered autonomous systems, making sure new vehicles are both reliable and safe.

By David Silverberg

Qarnot, a French high performance computing (HPC) cloud provider, is using the heat from its servers to warm district heating or water for day-to-day use in buildings. The energy-intensive processes that power the cloud now offer steamy water to residents and allow swimmers to exercise in temperate pools.

By Richard Pallardy

In a Eureka first, 14 countries across five continents are combining resources to fund international R&D projects that respond to natural and man-made disasters.

Individuals and businesses need ever-faster internet on more connected devices. In response to this challenge and the resulting strain on energy consumption, a Swedish-Turkish communication systems professor and a team spanning three countries tasked artificial intelligence (AI) with reducing power use whilst still maintaining high performance on 5G networks.

At the Embassy of Canada to Germany in Berlin on 2 December 2024, Eureka welcomed a 48th country to its network: Brazil. This was formalised in a signing ceremony between Brazilian Vice Minister for Technological Development and Innovation at the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology Innovation, Daniel Gomes Almeida Filho, and German Secretary of State, Stephan Ertner, under the auspices of Eureka’s Canadian and German Co-Chair team from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and National Research Council Canada. Eureka’s collaboration with Brazil gained traction during the Portuguese Chair from 2021-2022 (with the signature of a declaration of intent) with formal proceedings for accession starting in 2023.

As ageing populations increase, so does bacterial resistance to the antibiotics used in current wound dressings. Romanian SME, SPD STAR, has adopted a novel approach: testing the disinfectant properties of natural ingredients to produce regenerative medical gauzes and bandages.

An Austrian startup, Revo Foods, has developed a pioneering method to 3D print vegan salmon fillets. The company is paving the way for a revolution in how we eat to reduce our ecological impact.

Eureka has given free tickets to 39 small and medium sized enterprises from 15 countries and 15 women innovators to attend Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on 11-14 November 2024.