Individual membership and organisational cooperation are two different things and there is no point in mixing them. This page is for organisations. Individuals are covered by membership.
What you get out of it
- Once an NDA is signed, no data travels anywhere. Your material stays with you, and where data is sensitive we can work directly on your infrastructure — no third-party cloud and nothing sent outside.
- A proposal for a different solution that is cheaper or simpler than the one on your table.
- A review of the offers you have — whether the price matches the scope, what is missing and what nobody thought to ask.
- Connection to relevant partners — to those who actually do the work, not to those who merely sell it.
- Participation in project consortia and in joint programmes with the institute's other partners.
Overview
| Model | For whom | Price | Commitment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Corporate partner — Basic | smaller companies and municipalities | €1,200 / year | 12 months |
| 2. Corporate partner — Extended | mid-sized companies with their own technical team | €3,600 / year | 12 months |
| 3. Corporate partner — Strategic | companies that want to shape the direction of a topic | €12,000 / year | 12 months |
| 4. Contract work | a specific task with a deadline | €750 – 1,200 / day | per contract |
| 5. Joint development programme | 3 – 6 companies on one topic | €8,000 – 25,000 / partner / year | annual cycle |
| 6. Academic partnership | universities and research institutions | no fee | memorandum |
Prices exclude VAT. The institute is a civic association — revenue funds research, education and publishing.
1 – 3 · Corporate partnership
Partnership is prepaid access to the institute’s expert capacity. You are not buying a document, but the time of specialists, priority in the queue and information before it becomes public.
| What the annual fee includes | Basic | Extended | Strategic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seats on open courses | 2 | 6 | 15 |
| Expert briefing (60 min) | half-yearly | quarterly | monthly |
| Consulting hours beyond briefings | — | 8 h / year | 24 h / year |
| Response time to a technical question | 5 working days | 2 working days | 1 working day |
| Review of a specification before procurement | — | yes | yes |
| Pilot verification (up to 5 days of work) | — | — | yes, once a year |
| Closed seminar for your team | — | yes, once a year | yes, twice a year |
| Logo and profile in the partner list | yes | yes | yes |
| Seat on the programme’s technical board | — | — | yes |
How it works. After signing you get one name and one e-mail address — a dedicated specialist who knows your context, so you never have to explain it from scratch. The first briefing takes place within 30 days of signing and its output is a short written set of recommendations, not a presentation.
When it makes no sense. If you need one specific problem solved once, partnership is more expensive than contract work. Partnership pays off when you need someone who accompanies you over time.
4 · Contract work
A specific task, a specific deadline, a specific deliverable. Most often:
- a cyber-security or data-protection audit including corrective measures,
- assessment and review of a supplier’s proposal before the contract is signed,
- design of a system architecture, data flow or computing infrastructure,
- design and verification of a sensing or measurement chain,
- development, deployment and validation of machine-learning models,
- preparing an organisation for an audit under NIS2 or the AI Act.
A rate of €750 – 1,200 per person-day depending on difficulty and responsibility. Above 10 days we prepare a fixed price. The first hour, in which we clarify the task, is not charged.
5 · Joint development programme
The model used by applied-research institutions such as Fraunhofer and imec: three to six organisations co-fund a single development topic. The cost per participant is a fraction of doing the development alone, and every participant receives the result.
The rules that hold it together:
- Non-exclusive rights. Every partner may use the result in their own products. No one can block the others — without this rule competitors will not sit at the same table.
- Entry stays open during the year, but a partner joining later pays a proportional share of work already done.
- Results are published only after an agreed protection period, so that no one’s patent or commercial advantage is spoiled.
- A technical board of partner representatives sets the assignment; the institute runs the programme and is accountable for the output.
Topics we can open today: inference in edge computing and Hailo processors · automated non-destructive testing · waste-management analytics · distributed fibre-optic sensing · local language models for sensitive data.
A partner share of €8,000 – 25,000 per year depending on the size of the programme and the number of participants. Where a project is publicly co-funded, the share is reduced accordingly.
6 · Academic and institutional partnership
No fee, based on a memorandum. Mutual contribution instead of money: joint supervision of theses, access to laboratory and data, joint publications, joint participation in project consortia, guest lectures. Suitable for universities, research institutions, municipal organisations and the non-profit sector.
Intellectual property
So that it is clear from the outset what belongs to whom:
| Model | The result belongs to | Publication |
|---|---|---|
| Contract work | the client; the institute retains general know-how and methodology | only with the client’s consent |
| Joint programme | all partners, non-exclusively | after the protection period, naming the partners |
| Academic partnership | per the memorandum, usually jointly | yes — that is the purpose of the cooperation |
| Corporate partnership | briefings and recommendations are for the partner; no new asset arises | — |
The client’s personal and operational data does not leave the agreed perimeter; where data is sensitive, we can run the entire chain on the client’s own infrastructure.
How to start
Write to us about what you are solving — one paragraph is enough. Within two working days we reply whether we can do it, which model fits, and what it would mean in time and money. If it is not for us, we say so immediately and, where possible, point you elsewhere.
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