Danube InnoBridge

Sustainable business growth.

Driving sustainable business growth through innovation, collaboration, and market-ready solutions.

What we bring

From ideas to market-ready impact.

Our business support organization gives partners access to a strong and active network of SMEs with innovative business models that are eager to participate in international consortia.

Academic & Industry Synergy

Close cooperation with universities, clusters, industry associations, and research institutions — connecting Hungary’s circular economy ecosystem with European and global peers.

Established Expertise

A Dutch-Hungarian group with 30 years of proven experience in venture capital, business services, and commercial properties.

Proven EU Project Management

Experience in major and flagship European Union projects, including Horizon, Interreg, and I3 initiatives.

Innovation Acceleration

Transforming innovative SME ideas into competitive, market-ready products and services that create mutual growth and sustainable impact.

Comprehensive Market Entry

Grant and project management, strategic matchmaking, business scaling, market analysis, and concept validation.

Regional Focus. Global Reach.

Strong local and global presence — from the Danube Region and the Balkans to Japan through international collaboration networks.

Areas of expertise

Built around the transition economy.

We work where sustainability, industrial innovation, social value, and commercialization meet.

Food & agroscience innovation

Packaging & plastics

Social innovation & community organising

Electromobility & fleet management

AI-assisted value chains

Smart city infrastructure

International projects

Cross-border programmes with practical outcomes.

Danube InnoBridge participates in programmes spanning circular packaging, smart care, electromobility, industrial innovation, and sustainable materials.

V4P / Value4Pack

Supports companies in food packaging by connecting business and research, offering advice and training, and initiating innovation projects across the packaging chain.

Packaging innovation

EPIC

Builds innovation-ecosystem capacity in less developed regions and supports the transition toward circular packaging through concrete new business models.

I3 Instrument

Plan-C

Brings plastic processors, producers, and the machine industry together to co-create circular plastic prototypes using technology transfer and design thinking.

Circular plastics

D-CARE

Created a transnational network for innovative learning environments, smart care services, smart care labs, and policy learning for adults aged 55+ across Danube regions.

Smart care

SCALE

Advances smart charging, interoperable systems, and V2X solutions to support the mass deployment of electric vehicles and a more flexible energy ecosystem.

Electromobility

BIOCOMPACK

Linked business and research in paper-bioplastics packaging and piloted sustainable, food-grade solutions that reduce composite materials and virgin plastics.

Sustainable materials
Partners in innovation

Technology moving from pilot to practice.

Selected partners from the ecosystem are applying AI, circular materials, smart charging, automation, and research to real operational challenges.

Proofminder

Plant- and leaf-level precision smart farming that uses 50% less chemicals and increases yield by 10%, with AI vision for weather damage, yield, crop monitoring, disease detection, and planning.

ALTE-GO

A member of the ALTEO group and a major charging-point operator in Hungary, developing and deploying V2X solutions across thousands of locations.

Pro-Form

Develops ways to use recyclates and reduce virgin-material input in food-grade plastics, including PLA/PET production-waste decontamination and high-heat CPET packaging.

Plora

Deep-tech automation for complex assembly and disassembly in changing environments, turning robotic arms into flexible assets for battery disassembly, drone assembly, and automotive cable harnessing.

FoodControl Group

Research-led practical solutions for food-chain challenges, using rigorous methods and large-scale data analysis to address questions such as food-waste prevention.

HÉTFA

Budapest-based public policy analysis, economic and social research, and regional and urban development using tools from economics, political science, and sociology.

PolymerON

Thermoplastic polymers with a high proportion of recycled material, including toughened polymers containing end-of-life tyre waste for injection molding and extrusion.

Our partners

A network designed for collaboration.

Companies, research institutions, universities, and innovation actors from Hungary and beyond.

BME
ELTE
Neumann Janos University
Flex
MOHU
reTyre
Proofminder
ALTEO
PolymerON
HETFA
Contact us

Build the next innovation bridge with us.

For project partnerships, consortium building, market-entry support, or innovation collaboration, get in touch with the Danube InnoBridge team.

Tibor Tarcsay
Tibor TARCSAY, PhDSenior Project Managertibor.tarcsay@danube-innobridge.eu