LeanUP s.r.o.

LeanUP s.r.o. is a Slovak SME in Ružomberok, Liptov region — Slovakia is a Widening country. We run a coworking and co-creation space and a professional training arm.

In Horizon Europe consortia we work between research and uptake: co-design upstream (TRL 2–4), validation at our core (TRL 5–7), adoption downstream (TRL 8–9). In Cluster 4 our role is the human side of a technology project — establishing what end users require, testing the result with them, and building the capacity to use it.

• A real-world piloting environment where solutions meet real user groups: pilot design, participant recruitment, data and feedback collection and iteration, with training outcomes evaluated against recognised models (Kirkpatrick's four levels).

• Human-centric and game-based design that raises the adoption of digital tools, led by a university lecturer at the Catholic University of Ružomberok specialising in gamification and game-based learning.

• AI literacy for the people expected to use the technology. Our course AI Literacy+: From Foundations to Fluency was designed in-house and has been delivered internationally for educators; its design covers the staff AI-literacy expectations set by Article 4 of the EU AI Act.

• The data layer a project depends on: data collection and integration between systems, databases, and dashboards that make pilot results and project indicators visible to non-technical partners and stakeholders.

• Dissemination and exploitation towards SMEs, educators and public authorities, with multiplier events hosted in our own venue.

The team combines the pedagogical lead above, a project manager with a track record across more than 100 EU-funded projects, a financial-compliance specialist, and a senior data engineer with over a decade of experience building enterprise data platforms. Validated member of the EU Pact for Skills (ID 286cbf4f-e191-4faa-8811-886139b22ecb).

Core technology development sits with other partners. Our contribution is user requirements and co-design, piloting and validation, training and upskilling, and dissemination and exploitation.

Partner profile attached. Contact: partnership@leanup.sk