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Project cooperationUpdated on 2 November 2026

Industry investor and licensee for IP retention and knowledge valorisation: ERA-01 and ERA-02 (WIDERA 2027)

Chairman of the Board and CEO at Slovakia Technology Investments a.s. (STI)

Košice, Slovakia

About

Slovakia Technology Investments a.s. (STI, Košice, Slovakia; PIC 864519000) offers to join a consortium for HORIZON-WIDERA-2027-05-ERA-01 or ERA-02 as the industry partner. STI is a technology investor that works with its own capital: it takes research results and IP to the market through licensing, exploitation, market validation and investment readiness, including technologies whose original owner can no longer carry them.

What we can contribute:

  • ERA-01: the view of an investor and licensee on institutional IP and rights-retention policies, so that open access and the commercial uptake of results can go together; testing draft policies and model licence terms against real investment and licensing cases;

  • ERA-02: placements and mentoring for early-career researchers in our group's R&D and engineering teams (Slovakia Supercomputers: AI, IoT, embedded systems, 3D/VR; IPE: process and plant engineering), and the industry view on careers between academia and business;

  • exploitation, IP and business-model tasks, up to leading that work package;

  • a Widening-country perspective: Slovakia.

We also work with technology-transfer offices and universities on valorising academic IP for the 2027 calls HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MAT-PROD-42 (unlocking academic IP), MAT-PROD-49 (proof of market) and MAT-PROD-50 (venture builders), and welcome contact from teams with assets to valorise.

Contact: aa@stias.eu · www.stias.eu

Stage

  • Design - setting the project scope
  • Drafting - writing the project proposal
  • Completing the consortia

Call

  • HORIZON-WIDERA-2027-05-ERA-01: Pillar I: Facilitating development of institutional open access policies through the retention of intellectual property rights
  • HORIZON-WIDERA-2027-05-ERA-02: Pillar II: Talent ecosystems for attractive early research careers

Type

  • Partner seeks Consortium

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