* and reaches people, patients and companies.
We run EU-funded projects with universities, hospitals and companies across Europe, and publish what we learn. The same methods end up in the pilots and products we build for clients.
We join European consortia as the partner that builds, pilots and trains. Each project pairs universities and public bodies with a team that ships working systems.
Horizon Europe
SMART Researchers
An 11-partner consortium helping early-career researchers build the skills and careers they need, through career hubs, training and links with industry in Croatia, Serbia, Greece and Latvia. As the industry partner, Sparky* runs training, events, mentoring and industry connections in Croatia.
Erasmus+ Alliances for Education and Enterprises
ESG4PMChange+
Fourteen partners bring environmental, social and governance thinking into project management education. Sparky* supports the curriculum and training, work-based learning, Living Lab projects, mentoring and dissemination.
I3 Interregional Innovation Investments
HealthChain
As Leading SME for the FallPredict challenge with KBC Rijeka, Sparky* built StabilityGuard: medical-grade wearable sensors, a monitoring dashboard and alerts that predict patient falls, processed on-premise in the hospital. The pilot took the system from TRL 6 to TRL 9.
SMART Researchers kick-off meeting
SMART Researchers consortium at the project kick-off. Photo: smartresearchers.eu
HealthChain I3 final event, Murcia
Partners at the HealthChain I3 final event in Murcia, February 2026. Photo: healthchain-i3.eu
ESG4PMChange+ transnational meeting in Kraków
Partners at the ESG4PMChange+ transnational meeting in Kraków. Photo: esg4pmchange.com
SMART Researchers session at the University of Split
A researcher session at the University of Split, Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism. Photo: smartresearchers.eu
ESG4PMChange+ session with students
An ESG4PMChange+ session on ESG in project management. Photo: esg4pmchange.com
SMART Researchers session at Foodscale Hub
Early-stage researchers at a SMART Researchers session with Foodscale Hub. Photo: smartresearchers.eu
SMART Researchers session at IRMO, Zagreb
A session on the European Charter for Researchers at IRMO, Zagreb. Photo: smartresearchers.eu
SMART Researchers session at the University of Novi Sad
A SMART Researchers session at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad. Photo: smartresearchers.eu
University of Split students in the ESG4PMChange+ pilot
Students from the University of Split in the ESG4PMChange+ pilot. Photo: esg4pmchange.com
Photos from the official project websites: smartresearchers.eu, esg4pmchange.com and healthchain-i3.eu.
* Sparky* is a member of NVIDIA Inception, the NVIDIA programme for startups. We use NVIDIA accelerated computing across our robotics R&D, edge AI and cloud work, from training models to running them in real time.
Robotics
Our own AI for open-source robots such as Reachy Mini and Microduck: perception, speech and behaviours trained in simulation and tested on NVIDIA GPUs.
Edge AI
Models that run next to the data, on wearable sensors, cameras and drones, so analytics happen in real time where the signal is.
Cloud and real time
GPU-accelerated training and inference in the cloud for real-time video, streaming analytics and GenAI workloads.
A selection from the 50+ papers our team has published, in text mining and big data, AI and the economy, medical imaging and computer vision. Sparky* authors are highlighted.
Research data from our projects, cleaned, documented and published under CC BY 4.0 so other researchers can test, compare and build on it.
Job postings from 2.827 companies, August 2025 to January 2026, with full descriptions for NLP, skills and labour market research.
9-axis motion data at 52 Hz from three medical-grade wearable sensors, recorded during a 55-patient clinical study at KBC Rijeka. Anonymised and GDPR compliant.
* Internships, student placements and research projects with the universities of Split, Zagreb and Edinburgh, students from across Europe through SEA-EU, and ESG and responsible AI work with 3PSplit.
Second-year PhD students from the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Designing Responsible NLP work with our team on the faithfulness of citations in advanced GenAI research agents. When an agent writes a detailed report from documents, database tables and the web, is every claim supported by the evidence it cites? The students audit each citation against the exact evidence the agent received.
The study runs 200 detailed reports over 100 job postings from our open ESG dataset, with probes for known failure modes, and keeps a sanitised trace of every run so each claim can be checked by hand.
* Planning a proposal or a study that needs a team that collects the data, builds the models and pilots the result? We join consortia as the partner that turns research into working systems.
