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ESTECO awarded as key innovator by the EU Innovation Radar

25 August 2025

We're pleased to announce that the Innovation Radar of the European Commission awarded us as a key innovator for our participation in the MUSICODE project funded by the European Commission under Horizon 2020. We contributed to the use of well-consolidated software development practices based on agile methodologies and test-driven development in a continuous integration and continuous deployment cycle.

The Innovation Radar is a European Commission initiative with the aim of identifying high potential innovation programs and innovators in EU-funded research.

We've been acknowledged as "Key Innovator" in the development of this project together with a multi-disciplinary consortium which was coordinated by the University of Ioannina.

After analyzing the project, the innovations were categorized following these areas:

  1. Innovation Title: MUSICODE - 1st Open Innovation Platform for Organic Electronics Material and Product Development for fast analysis and decision-making;
    Market Maturity of the Innovation: Market Ready (more details on this categorisation are provided here);
    Market Creation Potential of the innovation: Noteworthy (more details on this categorisation are provided here).

  2. Innovation Title: Software tool enabling automated workflows that deploy a low-code approach for streamlining the implementation and execution of multi-scale material modelling for organic electronics;
    Market Maturity of the Innovation: Tech Ready;
    Market Creation Potential of the innovation: Noteworthy.

We're very proud of contributing to this important project and to receive acknowledgements from the EU Commission for the third time.