Research

Research that ships.

HSE has been a delivery partner in EU Framework Programme, H2020 and Horizon Europe consortia since FP7. We design work packages that live in production, not just white papers, and we bring twenty-five years of commercial engineering discipline to the science.

§ 01 / Active projects

Currently running across EU programmes.

CryptoACTION AI-assisted blockchain analytics and address attribution for European law-enforcement agencies. HE · 2024
HEDGE-IoT Federated learning and swarm computing across the cloud-edge continuum, unlocking grid flexibility. HE · 2024
DECODIT Digital tools empowering citizens to participate in the energy transition. HE · 2024
WeForming Intelligent grid-forming buildings integrated with the wider energy ecosystem. HE · 2024
EURMARS Multi-authority maritime border surveillance using HAPs and unmanned vehicles. H2020 · 2022
TENACITY Travel intelligence and risk scoring for crime prevention at European borders. H2020 · 2022
§ 02 / Research themes

Where our research portfolio concentrates.

Three themes thread through almost everything we do in the EU programmes, and the gravity is always toward systems that operators can actually run.

Theme A

Explainable AI for regulated decisions

Models that produce defensible outputs in finance, law-enforcement and clinical settings. Evidence chains, not black boxes.

Theme B

Federated & edge intelligence

Learning across operators and devices without centralising sensitive data. Production-grade federated pipelines, model orchestration and edge inference.

Theme C

Applied LLMs & agentic systems

Domain-specific copilots, retrieval-augmented generation over operational corpora, and agentic workflows, built with evaluation harnesses, guardrails and audit trails from day one.

Shaping a proposal under HE clusters 3, 4 or 5?

We can co-design the work package, take on technical delivery, or join as a pilot integrator. Reach out early; proposal-stage conversations work best.

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