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The consortium

ARGENTIC partners

20 organisations from 9 European countries, working together to build trustworthy, energy-aware AI for Europe.

ITESFIBESIELCYCHFR FINLAND2 partnersUniversity of TurkuUniversity of OuluSLOVENIA3 partnersUniversity of MariborXLABUMC Mariborassociated partnerITALY2 partnersMaggioli SpAcoordinatorSorint.LabGREECE5 partnersNovelcoreMoptilWorkableINDUSTBerryPlasmaCYPRUS1 partnerViLabsBELGIUM2 partnersSquaredev28DIGITALFRANCE1 partnerRDIUPSWITZERLAND1 partnerUniversity of GenevaSPAIN3 partnersEticas Research & ConsultingWardem Squadaffiliated entityEIT Digital Spainaffiliated entity
Project coordinatorPartner location

Italy2

  • Maggioli SpA coordinator
  • Sorint.Lab

Belgium2

  • Squaredev
  • 28DIGITAL

Cyprus1

  • ViLabs

Finland2

  • University of Turku
  • University of Oulu

France1

  • RDIUP

Greece5

  • Novelcore
  • Moptil
  • Workable
  • INDUST
  • BerryPlasma

Slovenia3

  • University of Maribor
  • XLAB
  • UMC Maribor associated partner

Spain3

  • Eticas Research & Consulting
  • Wardem Squad affiliated entity
  • EIT Digital Spain affiliated entity

Switzerland1

  • University of Geneva

Meet the consortium

Research centres, universities, SMEs and industry leaders, each bringing a key piece of the ARGENTIC puzzle.

ItalyCoordinator

Maggioli SpA

Role in ARGENTIC

Project Coordinator, WP1 & WP7 Leader. Manages overall governance, coordinates the seven European pilot trials and develops the core Digital Twin integration framework (MIRA) for industrial operations.

About

A leading Italian multinational technology company and software factory specialising in digital transformation for public administrations, enterprises and smart cities, with extensive cloud and SaaS infrastructure across Southern Europe.

maggioli.com

SpainAffiliated entity of Maggioli

Wardem Squad

Role in ARGENTIC

Lead Beneficiary for Use Case 3 (Digital Marketing Optimisation).

About

A specialised digital growth and data-driven marketing agency based in Madrid, pioneering privacy-preserving GenAI marketing attribution, CDP integration and AI-first brand positioning.

wardem.com

Finland

University of Turku

Role in ARGENTIC

Technical Leader, WP3 Leader (Distributed Agentic Intelligence) and T2.1 Requirements Leader.

About

A leading Finnish research university. Its Department of Computing brings world-class expertise in cybersecurity, lightweight SLMs, privacy-preserving machine learning and edge computing.

utu.fi

Finland

University of Oulu

Role in ARGENTIC

WP4 Leader (Federated Knowledge & Data Fabric) and T5.1 Task Placement Leader.

About

Its Center for Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP) is a pioneer in distributed edge AI, 5G/6G testbeds and neural publish/subscribe architectures, operating the nationwide 5GTN test network in Finland.

oulu.fi

Italy

Sorint.Lab

Role in ARGENTIC

Lead Beneficiary for Use Case 2 (Mangrovia IoT Energy & Industry Pilot).

About

A global IT consultancy and software company specialising in DevOps, cloud-native and IoT operations, providing the MangroviaIoT asset management platform for industrial predictive maintenance and energy efficiency.

sorint.com

Belgium

Squaredev

Role in ARGENTIC

WP5 Leader (Agentic Orchestration & Governance) and developer of the SquarcoRE Engine.

About

A Belgian AI software engineering firm providing enterprise agentic platforms, RAG workflows, human-in-the-loop consoles and multi-objective reinforcement learning for AI task orchestration.

squaredev.io

Slovenia

University of Maribor

Role in ARGENTIC

WP6 Leader (Sustainable Agent Lifecycle & RLHF) and Use Case 7 Leader (MindBuddy Mental Health Pilot).

About

Its HUMADEX Research Group focuses on human-robot interaction, socially assistive AI, ethical AI evaluation and health demonstrators on supercomputing infrastructures.

um.si

Slovenia

XLAB

Role in ARGENTIC

T5.4 EcoMode Governance Leader and T6.4 Energy-Aware Fine-Tuning Leader.

About

An acclaimed Slovenian software research company with expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible/Spotter), IoT-edge-cloud meta-operating systems and renewable energy forecasting services (RENOPS).

xlab.si

Greece

Novelcore

Role in ARGENTIC

WP2 Leader (Agentic Reference Architecture) and T8.2 Exploitation Leader.

About

An innovative Greek research SME specialising in multi-agent systems, explainable reasoning (XAI), RAG 2.0 retrieval engines, synthetic data generation and AI compliance toolkits.

novelcore.eu

Spain

Eticas Research & Consulting

Role in ARGENTIC

T1.4 Social Impact & Legal Compliance Leader and T4.4 Privacy Contracts Leader.

About

A globally recognised AI auditing and ethics consultancy based in Barcelona, providing independent compliance validation, bias auditing and governance frameworks aligned with the EU AI Act and GDPR.

eticas.ai

Cyprus

ViLabs

Role in ARGENTIC

WP8 Leader (Communication, Dissemination & Exploitation).

About

A research and innovation hub based in Cyprus and Greece, specialising in EU project dissemination, communication campaigns, ecosystem building, standardisation liaison and co-creation workshops.

vilabs.eu

Switzerland

University of Geneva

Role in ARGENTIC

T4.1 Local Knowledge Graphs Leader and Technical Contributor to Clinical NLP.

About

Its DS4DH group specialises in biomedical natural language processing, fine-tuned medical SLMs (CardioBERTpt) and graph-based retrieval-augmented generation for electronic health records.

unige.ch

Greece

Moptil

Role in ARGENTIC

Lead Beneficiary for Use Case 4 (Immersive AR/VR Cultural Heritage Guide).

About

A Greek pioneer in augmented and virtual reality for tourism and culture, delivering edge-processed 3D reconstructions and AI guides for major archaeological sites across Europe.

moptil.com

Greece

Workable

Role in ARGENTIC

Lead Beneficiary for Use Case 6 (Agentic Recruitment AI & Fair Matching).

About

A world-leading recruiting and HR software platform hosting over 120 million candidates, developing AI recruiters, CV parsers, CV anonymisers and explainable screening assistants.

workable.com

Greece

INDUST

Role in ARGENTIC

Lead Beneficiary for Use Case 5 (Precision Agriculture IoT & Cultivation Optimisation).

About

A Greek industrial IoT SME providing custom edge hardware (hCore gateways, FtG-MIO controllers) and cloud analytics (IoTControl) for smart irrigation and TinyML applications.

indust.io

Belgium

28DIGITAL

Role in ARGENTIC

T8.3 Ecosystem Synergies Leader and T8.4 Training & Capacity Building Leader.

About

28DIGITAL (formerly EIT Digital) is a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, driving digital skills, start-up acceleration and AI maturity and conformity toolkits across Europe.

28digital.eu

SpainAffiliated entity of 28DIGITAL

EIT Digital Spain

Role in ARGENTIC

Affiliated entity of 28DIGITAL, supporting its ecosystem-building, training and capacity-building activities in ARGENTIC.

About

The Spanish node of 28DIGITAL (formerly EIT Digital), based in Madrid since 2017. It fosters digital innovation and entrepreneurship through business acceleration for scale-ups and entrepreneurial education programmes.

28digital.eu

France

RDIUP

Role in ARGENTIC

Technical Contributor to Mobile Companions & Mental Health Applications (UC7).

About

A French high-tech R&D SME specialising in digital health mobile apps (SMILE), energy transition tools, edge computing prototypes and gamified AI scenarios.

rdiup.com

Greece

BerryPlasma

Role in ARGENTIC

Agricultural Field Trial & Breeding Partner for Use Case 5.

About

A Greek agricultural research SME operating one of Southern Europe’s most advanced soilless strawberry nurseries and germplasm collections, holding multiple CPVO-registered cultivars.

berryplasma.gr

SloveniaAssociated partner

UMC Maribor

Role in ARGENTIC

Clinical Validation Site for Use Case 7 (Adolescent Mental Health).

About

Slovenia’s second-largest tertiary university hospital, whose Division of Paediatrics provides clinical expertise and patient cohorts for validating the MindBuddy robotic companions.

ukc-mb.si