“Spotlight on Partners” series

Now introducing our last partner of this series: L-UP, a leading consultancy company, based in Paris and Lyon, and specialised in national and European R&D funding programmes.

L-up is composed of a multidisciplinary team of 8 senior consultants with scientific and business backgrounds and extensive experience in innovation project management and promotion. Since 2001, L-UP works with internationally recognized research institutions, large industrial companies, and innovative SMEs and accompanies them for the setting-up and implementation of their collaborative R&D projects, especially in high-tech areas such as transport, ICT, security, energy, materials, space or circular economy.

L-UP is supporting D-STANDART in two main activities: acting as Project Management Officer and leading the work on communication, monitoring dissemination and exploitation activities under the supervision of the Project Coordinator and Exploitation Manager. As such, L-UP team works on a daily basis in tight connection with all project stakeholders: Work Package leaders, researchers, administrative and financial officers, but also our Advisory Board members.

L-UP also plays a central role in dissemination events organization: D-STANDART rich contribution to JEC World 2025 was one of project’s key achievements in dissemination.

In D-STANDART, L-UP has also been leading a two-fold socio-economic repercussion study looking at 1) the underpinning attitudes of the public towards sustainability in technological developments and 2) the value that D-STANDART approach delivers to industry stakeholders. The results of this study will largely feed the final report on circularity monitored by NCC – Innovating for Industry.