A collaborative innovation environment, transforming promising ideas into scalable solutions.
About
Inside the Factory
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Who we back
We support startups, SMEs, researchers, and entrepreneurs working across AI and adjacent technologies. Our approach combines practical support, interdisciplinary collaboration, and international exposure that strengthen innovation readiness, resilience, and long-term sustainable growth.
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How we do it
Each idea moves through a structured journey, translating AI capability into deployable, accountable systems.
Explore
Validate the problem
Discovery sessions with stakeholders and end users before any code is written.
Design
Build with rigour
Co-create with our research network. Architecture, governance, trust by design.
Pilot
Deploy in the wild
Living-lab environments with real users. Feedback informs every iteration.
Scale
Across regions and systems
Market translation with EU collaborators, sustaining impact at the systems level.
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Our mentoring ecosystem
Our mentoring ecosystem is built through our international network of researchers, industry experts, sustainability specialists, policy professionals, entrepreneurs, and think tanks across Europe and beyond. Participants engage in structured pathways: mentoring, workshops, innovation clinics, and cross-border exchanges. Through direct interaction with experienced practitioners, innovators strengthen strategic thinking, leadership, and the practical skills needed to navigate complex innovation environments.
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Beyond conventional incubation
More than a conventional incubation initiative, our Incubation Factory promotes responsible, human-centred, and sustainability-driven innovation shaped through collaboration and real-world engagement.
Particular emphasis on
Women
Youth
Early-stage innovators
Underrepresented communities
By creating accessible pathways into international innovation ecosystems, we contribute to more inclusive, resilient, and future-oriented innovation with meaningful societal and environmental impact across regions and communities.
Active builds
Built, tested, deployed
Four products in active development, from alpha to live, each shaped by real users and real conditions.
Active builds · 01
VIDYA
Alpha
AI-powered literacy products for inclusive education.
Interactive AI and systems-learning platform for hands-on, project-based capability building across cohorts. Designed to expand AI literacy across underserved communities, students, teachers, and emerging professionals.
Active builds · 02
A(i)MPACT Lab
Beta
Sandbox environment for sector-grounded AI experimentation.
AI, Digital Twin, and XR prototyping and simulation environment for testing solutions before real-world deployment. Ventures can validate, iterate, and stress-test ideas with collaborators across sectors.
Active builds · 03
ainsteins
Beta
Personalised AI learning environments.
Adaptive AI learning environments that flex to each learner’s pace, background, and context, so the path through capability never feels generic.
DemoComing soon
Active builds · 04
SenseMaker
Live
AI capability and impact assessment.
Measuring how AI initiatives perform against operational, learning, and societal outcomes, so investment decisions, programme design, and policy can rest on evidence rather than intuition.
DemoComing soon
Governance & readiness
Aligned with the frameworks that matter
Regulatory alignment
EU AI Act
Readiness assessment, risk classification, and compliance mapping for AI systems entering the European market.
Standards alignment
ISO/IEC 42001 · NIST AI RMF
Management-system standards and risk-management frameworks built into every venture, not bolted on afterward.
Building an AI venture?
Mentorship, access to research networks, governance support, and routes to pilot and scale, across the European Union and beyond.