InnoMatch cohort 2 pilots are in the deployment phase

At InnoMatch, our driving mission under the European Innovation Council (EIC) Innovation Procurement Programme is to de-risk innovation procurement. We bridge the gap between breakthrough European deep-tech innovators and forward-thinking public and private buyers eager to solve pressing operational challenges.

Following a highly collaborative preparation phase, our Cohort 2 pilots have officially stepped into the deployment phase!

Over the next months, these pioneering partnerships will move from planning to live implementation. Each pilot is deploying their technologies directly into buyers’ facilities, clinical settings, production lines and municipal infrastructure, testing performance, validating KPIs and demonstrating tangible business and societal impact in real-world conditions.

Spotlight on the Cohort 2 Pilots: Challenges & Solutions

Spanning healthcare, robotics, environmental sustainability, advanced materials and agri-food, discover how our Cohort 2 innovators are tackling their partner’s challenges:

🏥 Healthcare & Life Sciences

• Pilot WAEVE System: Non-Invasive Stent Monitoring
  • EIC Awardee and partner: NIMBLE Diagnostics S.L. & Institut de Recerca Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP)
  • The Challenge: Millions of patients receive coronary stents annually, yet complications such as in-stent restenosis (~10%) and stent thrombosis (~0.5–2%) frequently require risky, costly, invasive catheterisations for diagnosis.
  • The Solution: NIMBLE is deploying its proprietary WAEVE® system—a non-invasive, radiation-free microwave-based medical device that assesses stent condition and patency safely and cost-effectively from outside the body.
    
• Pilot REMEDY: Robotic Efficiency for Medicine Delivery
  • EIC Awardee and partner: PAL Robotics & Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA
  • The Challenge: Healthcare professionals face mounting administrative burdens and logistical bottlenecks transporting medicines and critical supplies across busy hospital corridors.
  • The Solution: Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) tailored by PAL Robotics streamline internal hospital logistics, automating routine delivery routes to free valuable clinical staff for direct patient care.
    
• Pilot PHI: The Plug-and-Play Optical Port for 3D Bio-Imaging
  • EIC Awardee and partner: Phaseform GmbH & German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
  • The Challenge: Standard optical microscopy suffers severe image degradation from optical aberrations when peering deep into thick 3D live-cell cultures and organ-on-chip models.
  • The Solution: Phaseform is integrating its adaptive-optics-based PHI hardware and software directly into DZNE’s spinning-disk microscope setups, correcting wavefront distortion in real time to enable crisp deep-tissue imaging for neurodegenerative drug discovery.
    
• Pilot Clinical Long-Read Metagenomics
  • EIC Awardee and partner: Sequentia Biotech SL & Biomedical Diagnostic Center, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
  • The Challenge: Traditional culture and short-read sequencing methods often take days to identify complex pathogens, leaving critical infection windows untreated or mistreated.
  • The Solution: Deployment of a high-resolution long-read metagenomics diagnostic pipeline that delivers rapid, comprehensive pathogen and antimicrobial-resistance profiling directly to clinical microbiology teams.
    
• Pilot RGS Ecosystem in Clinical Rehabilitation
  • EIC Awardee and partner: Eodyne Systems & Clínica MEDS
  • The Challenge: Long-term motor and cognitive neuro-rehabilitation requires sustained engagement and objective, real-time quantification of patient recovery.
  • The Solution: Deploying the Rehabilitation Gaming System (RGS)—an evidence-based virtual reality and digital therapeutics platform enabling clinicians to customise, deliver, and monitor intensive neuro-rehabilitation protocols.
    
• Pilot PrediHeart: AI-Driven Cardiac Risk Stratification
  • EIC Awardee and partner: IDOVEN 1903, S.L.
  • The Challenge: Early detection and timely intervention for complex cardiac arrhythmias remain hampered by manual, labour-intensive ECG interpretation across large patient populations.
  • The Solution: IDOVEN’s cloud-based artificial intelligence platform rapidly analyses long-term electrocardiograms to detect early cardiovascular risk markers, empowering clinicians with high-precision diagnostics.

🌿 Sustainability, Cleantech & Circular Economy

• Pilot Pavement Stones as a Carbon Sink
  • EIC Awardee and partner: Paebbl AB
  • The Challenge: Concrete and paving materials in urban infrastructure are historically responsible for immense embodied carbon dioxide emissions.
  • The Solution: Paebbl permanently sequesters captured $\text{CO}_2$ into solid mineral materials, integrating carbon-negative fillers into municipal pavement stones that actively lock away carbon for generations.
    
• Pilot Energy-Generating Municipal Greenhouse
  • EIC Awardee and partner: Brite Hellas SA & Ayuntamiento de Las Rozas
  • The Challenge: Municipalities seek local, climate-resilient food production without inflating energy demands and municipal carbon footprints.
  • The Solution: Brite Hellas is deploying transparent, nanomaterial-coated agrivoltaic glass on municipal greenhouses—generating renewable solar energy while optimising light transmission wavelengths essential for crop growth.
    
• Pilot Nanobubble-Enhanced Oil-Water Separation
  • EIC Awardee and partner: AquaB Nanobubble Innovations Ltd
  • The Challenge: Treating industrial oily wastewater and emulsions requires harsh chemical agents, heavy maintenance, and high energy inputs.
  • The Solution: Deploying low-energy, chemical-free nanobubble generators that alter interface dynamics to accelerate and optimise oil separation, cutting environmental and operational costs.
    
• Pilot 100% Bio-Based Sustainable Packaging
  • EIC Awardee and partner: RAIKU Packaging OÜ & Eminente (Moët Hennessy / LVMH)
  • The Challenge: Luxury goods and fragile merchandise rely heavily on petroleum-based foam, bubble wrap, or resource-heavy paper cushions that pose severe recycling and microplastic challenges.
  • The Solution: RAIKU deploys spring-like, purely mechanical wooden veneer padding made with virtually zero water and minimal energy, providing high-end luxury packaging that decomposes naturally.

🌾 Agri-Food & Bio-Innovation

• Pilot Regenerative Coffee Ecosystem Monitoring
  • EIC Awardee and partner: 3Bee | XNatura
  • The Challenge: Verifying the actual ecological impact and pollinator health across regenerative agriculture initiatives at scale in Latin America is traditionally slow and imprecise.
  • The Solution: 3Bee deploys bioacoustic sensors and satellite remote sensing across Colombian coffee plantations to provide continuous, automated biodiversity and pollinator monitoring.
    
• Pilot MATCH-HYBRID: Next-Generation Alternative Proteins
  • EIC Awardee and partner: NOVAMEAT TECH SL & Hilton Foods Dalco
  • The Challenge: Transitioning consumers toward sustainable eating requires plant-based and hybrid formulations that match the fibrous texture, bite, and culinary experience of animal protein without prohibitive production overheads.
  • The Solution: NOVAMEAT integrates proprietary texturisation technology into commercial manufacturing lines to produce hybrid meat products with realistic texture and superior nutritional profiles.

💾 Advanced Sensing, Digital Systems & Deep Tech

• Pilot 3-in-1 Oxygen Sensor: Cold-Chain Integrity
  • EIC Awardee and partner: FaradaIC Sensors GmbH & BluLog sp. z o.o.
  • The Challenge: Real-time monitoring of food, pharmaceutical, and vaccine degradation during transit requires sensors that are miniature, ultra-low-power, and affordable enough for widespread tracking units.
  • The Solution: FaradaIC is deploying micro-electrochemical gas sensors on chip-scale architectures, embedding miniaturised oxygen, temperature, and humidity tracking directly into BluLog’s smart cold-chain loggers.
    
• Pilot Long-Term Data Archiving in Synthetic DNA
  • EIC Awardee and partner: Genomika & The Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania
  • The Challenge: National historical archives and mission-critical public records require centuries of preservation, but current magnetic tapes and hard drives degrade within a few years, requiring continuous migration and vast energy expenditure.
  • The Solution: Converting national historical assets into high-density synthetic DNA strands—offering maintenance-free, ultra-durable data storage that lasts millennia without electrical power.
    
• Pilot AI for Public Procurement (Ai4PP)
  • EIC Awardee and partner: Compliance Tech Sociedade Unipessoal LDA & City of Ghent
  • The Challenge: Public procurement teams spend extensive resources verifying regulatory compliance, analysing supply chains, and preventing procurement inefficiencies across intricate administrative frameworks.
  • The Solution: An AI-enabled analytical platform deployed directly within municipal workflows to standardise compliance checks and streamline procurement processes.
    
• Pilot CHEF: Advanced Coatings for Hydrogen Fuel Cells
  • EIC Awardee and partner: Naco Technologies & EH Group
  • The Challenge: Widespread hydrogen fuel cell adoption depends on lowering costs while extending stack durability and preventing corrosion of bipolar plates.
  • The Solution: Naco Technologies is applying high-rate physical vapour deposition (PVD) nano-coatings to EH Group’s high-density fuel cell stacks, significantly reducing noble-metal usage and extending operating lifespan.

What’s Next?

The deployment phase will run through the coming months, accompanied by hands-on mentoring, impact monitoring and stakeholder validation. Following this period, the pilots will progress to the Assessment Phase.

Stay tuned for regular field updates and interviews with innovators and buyers!

👉 Explore the full directory and pilot details:

Visit the InnoMatch Cohort 2 Pilots and follow their journey on LinkedIn.