Scale Programme - Medical Resilience for Civil and Military Use

e-peas is a Belgian semiconductor company developing ultra-low-power energy harvesting chips that enableelectronic devices to operate using ambient energy sources such as light, heat, vibration, and radio frequencysignals. Their technology captures and converts this energy to power low-energy wireless devices directly, reducingor eliminating the need for batteries in the right conditions.​​​​

e-peas supports IoT device and sensor manufacturers, industrial monitoring companies, consumer electronicsdevelopers, smart building operators, and wearable technology companies. Its technology is validated across usecases including remote asset tracking, smart retail, industrial IoT, and battery-free wearables, with direct relevancefor defence and medical applications requiring autonomous, maintenance-free sensing in the field.​​

What’s in it for you?​

• Reduce or eliminate battery dependency by powering IoT devices with ambient energy sources such as light, heat,vibration, or RF signals.​​

• Gain flexibility with a broad energy harvesting portfolio that supports multiple energy sources, allowing designersto adapt solutions to different operating environments.​​

• Enable reliable operation in remote or hard-to-reach locations where battery replacement is impractical, costly,or impossible.​​

• Benefit from technology proven in demanding environments, with significant CO2 savings achieved andsuccessful validation in advanced projects, including a NASA mission.​​​

Discover more on https://e-peas.com/​

ADLC is a Belgian drone logistics company specialising in autonomous delivery services for industrial and portenvironments. The company enables ultra-fast, safe, and low-emission transport of critical materials in areas wheretime, cost, and operational efficiency matter most. By developing drone delivery networks with dedicatedinfrastructure and compliant operations, ADLC helps businesses move goods more efficiently while reducingpollution.​​

ADLC supports petrochemical and industrial companies, port operators, logistics hubs, and offshore energyoperators, providing autonomous drone delivery services to transport critical materials quickly, safely, and withlower emissions across complex operational environments.​​

What’s in it for you?​

• Accelerate the delivery of critical and time-sensitive materials, helping reduce delays in industrial and operationalenvironments.​​

• Lower the emissions associated with logistics by using drone delivery as a cleaner alternative to traditionaltransport methods.​​

• Improve safety and efficiency through autonomous drone networks that reduce the operational burden ofconventional delivery approaches.​​

• Access a solution designed for demanding environments where traditional logistics can be slower, more costly, orless effective.​​​

Discover more on https://adlc.eu/en​

ADS (Autonomous Defense Systems) is developing the next generation of counter-drone defence solutions designed to be both cost-effective and rapidly deployable across a wide range of operational environments. Its systems provide kinetic drone neutralisation with jamming-resistant protection, helping operators secure critical infrastructure and exposed sites against unmanned aerial system threats.​​​

ADS supports defence infrastructure operators, military medical units, and critical site managers, delivering rapidly deployable counter-drone protection for environments where resilience, mobility, and operational effectiveness are essential.​​

What’s in it for you?​

• Protect field hospitals and medical logistics hubs from drone threats through kinetic interception designed for operationally sensitive environments.​​

• Benefit from a cost-asymmetric defence model that makes sustained counter-drone protection financially viable at scale.​​

• Deploy protection rapidly in the field with a solution that can be set up by a single operator in under five minutes, making it suitable for forward medical environments.​​

• Scale coverage across larger site footprints by linking multiple units into a shared detection and engagement grid beyond the radius of a single system.​​​

Discover more on https://www.autonomous-defense.com/ ​

BlueLight Humanitarian Airlines is a Geneva-based humanitarian aviation group combining a non-profit airline with a commercial cargo subsidiary, BlueLight Airlift. The group provides rapid neutral airlift for medical evacuation, patient repatriation, humanitarian relief, pharmaceutical cargo, and heavy transport, with global deployment possible within 72 hours.​​

BlueLight serves humanitarian organisations, UN agencies, government bodies, pharmaceutical and life-science companies, and emergency response actors requiring fast, reliable, and trusted airlift capacity.​​

What’s in it for you?​

• Rapid global deployment within 72 hours for medical evacuation, patient repatriation, and time-critical humanitarian or civilian cargo.​​

• A unique multi-role airlift capability combining passenger transport, flying hospital functions, and heavy cargo on a single aircraft.​​

• Cold-chain ready transport for pharmaceutical, medical, and life-science shipments requiring secure and reliable handling.​​

• Swiss-neutral, transparent, and institutionally trusted operations supported by leading humanitarian and public-sector partners.​​

Discover more on https://www.bluelightairlines.org/​​​

Hospitainer is a Dutch company developing modular, container-based medical facilities and mobile clinics for deployment in disaster zones, conflict areas, and remote or underserved regions. Through its defence branch, GMCenter, the company provides rapidly deployable medical infrastructure supporting frontline care, advanced treatment, and evacuation support where permanent healthcare infrastructure is unavailable or disrupted.​​

Hospitainer serves defence and military forces, humanitarian organisations, governments, and emergency response agencies operating in disaster relief, conflict zone medical support, refugee camp healthcare, and rapid field hospital deployment.​​

What’s in it for you?​

• Enable healthcare delivery within hours in austere, damaged, or inaccessible environments.​​

• Access a scalable continuum-of-care solution covering frontline stabilisation, advanced treatment, and evacuation support.​​

• Strengthen crisis resilience with robust mobile medical infrastructure for disasters, conflict zones, and mass casualty events.​​

• Deploy a solution designed for both civil and defence use, with strong interoperability across emergency and medical systems.​​

Discover more on ​​https://www.gmcenter.com/​ and https://hospitainer.com/​

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FAQIR Institute is a Belgian healthtech company enabling patients, hospitals, healthcare professionals, and research institutions to structure, share, and reuse health data effectively. Its solutions combine person-centric datavaults with international data standards to ensure interoperability across systems and support secure primary and secondary data use.​​

FAQIR Institute works with hospitals, research institutions, biopharmaceutical companies, patient organisations,and public health agencies. Its approach is also relevant for military medical and defence health systems seeking interoperable, standardised, and reusable health data across fragmented and multinational environments.​​​

What’s in it for you?​

• Make health data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable across hospitals, systems, and borders using recognised international standards.​​

• Build on a secure foundational data layer with data vaults, access control, audit trails, and policy management supporting multiple applications.​​

• Enable patient-controlled data sharing through person-centric records and dynamic consent management.​​

• Support readiness for regulatory compliance with frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, ISO27001, and the European Health Data Space.​​​

Discover more on https://faqir.eu/​

First15 is a Dutch company developing compact, military-grade first aid kits designed to stabilise life-threatening injuries quickly. The kits include essential trauma tools and clear instructions to support fast action in emergency situations. Its flagship product is an intuitive tourniquet designed for rapid, stress-proof application, helping users control severe bleeding more easily and effectively than conventional models.​​

First15 supports defence and military units, emergency services, workplaces, schools, and public bleeding control initiatives. Its products are suited for pre-hospital trauma response, civilian first responder programmes, occupational safety, and military field operations where rapid haemorrhage control is critical before medical professionals arrive.​​

What’s in it for you?​

• Enable faster bleeding control in critical moments, improving survival before professional care arrives.​​

• Reduce training burden and application errors with simplified tools designed for use under stress.​​

• Support better patient stabilisation and improved outcomes in pre-hospital emergency response.​​

• Deploy easily across defence, emergency, healthcare, and public safety systems at scale.​​

Discover more on https://www.first15.eu/​

LipoCoat is a Dutch medical coatings company developing two coating platforms to improve the comfort, performance, and safety of medical devices. Its lipid-based, cell membrane-inspired coating helps make device surfaces repellent to bacteria and proteins, reducing infection risk without antibiotics or toxic substances. Through Sono-Coat, the company also enhances the ultrasound visibility of medical devices, improving placement accuracy in clinical and field environments.​​

LipoCoat and its subsidiary Sono-Coat support medical device manufacturers, hospitals, and defence medical services, delivering coatings for safer, better performing, and more comfortable devices across implants, catheters, and field-deployable medical equipment.​​

What’s in it for you?​

• Reduce infection risk in clinical and field settings with bio-inspired coatings that help prevent bacteria and protein build-up without contributing to antibiotic resistance.​​

• Improve accuracy in critical procedures through enhanced ultrasound visibility, supporting faster and more reliable device placement.​​

• Strengthen supply chain resilience by enabling alternative coated materials and supporting more localised production capacity.​​

• Integrate easily with existing devices, accelerating adoption across medtech, pharmaceutical, and defence applications.​​

Discover more on https://www.lipocoat.com/ ​

Avivo is developing enzyme-based technology designed to remove blood type barriers in blood transfusion and organ transplantation. By converting all blood types to Type O, the universal donor type, the company aims to increase access to compatible blood and donor organs. Its platform has applications across both civilian healthcare and military trauma care.​​

Avivo works with leading academic research institutions, transplant centres, and clinical research organisations to advance and validate its technology for use in blood transfusion and solid organ transplantation.​​

What’s in it for you?​

• Address a major healthcare barrier by reducing blood type compatibility constraints in transfusion and transplantation.​​

• Help respond to critical shortages in universal donor blood and compatible donor organs.​​

• Benefit from a platform technology with applications across multiple clinical settings, from emergency care to transplant medicine.​​

• Build on promising preclinical validation, including proof of concept in blood type conversion for organ transplantation.​​

​Discover more on https://avivobio.com/​

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Herges Detection is a German company specializing in the rapid detection of explosives and hazardous substances. The company develops portable test-strip technology that enables immediate, on-site identification of dangerous materials without the need for electronics, power supply, or laboratory equipment. Built around a proprietary chemical detection method, Herges Detection helps security and field operators detect a wide range of military and homemade explosives quickly and reliably.​

Herges Detection supports law enforcement agencies, military organizations, and explosive ordnance disposal unitsin security and field operations where explosives and hazardous substances must be identified quickly, simply, andreliably.​

What's in it for you?​

• Identify explosives and hazardous substances in moments, supporting faster decision-making in the field.​

• Operate without electronics, power supply, or laboratory infrastructure, making the technology easy to use in remote or resource-limited environments.​

• Transport and deploy the lightweight test strips wherever quick screening is needed.​

• Detect major classes of explosives, including both military-grade and homemade explosive materials.​

​Discover more on https://herges-detection.de​

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PUXANO is a platform-based biotech company and contract research partner that helps pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms develop vaccines and antibodies. By combining diffusion-based AI, wet-lab biochemistry, and advanced imaging technology, PUXANO has built a unique platform for structure-guided antigen design that provides access to the most challenging protein targets. The company also offers a proprietary portfolio of bacterial and viral antigens available for vaccine, antibody, or diagnostic applications.​

PUXANO supports pharmaceutical companies, biotech firms, and academic research teams across both early research and advanced therapeutic programs, accelerating vaccine and antibody development through AI-enabled protein design and structure analysis.​

What's in it for you?​

• Access difficult biological targets through a platform that integrates new protein design methods with high-resolution protein structure information, enabling structure-guided antigen development beyond standard technologies.​

• Move from early protein design to protein production and structure analysis within a 100-day development cycle.​

• Rely on proprietary imaging technology already used by 5 of the top 10 pharma companies and renowned research centres in the EU and US.​

• Leverage a unique portfolio of bacterial and viral antigens for the development of vaccines, antibodies, ordiagnostics.​

Discover more on https://puxano.com/​

Praesens Care is a Belgian company specializing in mobile healthcare platforms that expand access to centralized-grade diagnostics (ISO 15189-accredited mobile clinical laboratories), treatment, and medical support in hard-to-reach environments. The company designs and integrates fit-for-purpose medical vehicles equipped with diagnostics, telemedicine, connected devices, secure data systems, and self-sufficient energy solutions, enabling resilient healthcare delivery from screening to emergency response.​

Praesens Care supports ministries of defence, NATO and EU defence agencies, health security authorities, and crisis response organizations, with validated use cases spanning Belgian Ministry of Defence operations, crisis deployment in Ukraine, and epidemic response missions across Africa.​

​What's in it for you?​

• Bring a large spectrum of diagnostics and care to forward operating bases, contested environments, andresource-constrained settings where fixed infrastructure is unavailable, overwhelmed, or unsafe.​

• Strengthen epidemic preparedness, CBRN response capacity, and sovereign medical resilience for civil andmilitary use.​

• Deploy BIONEAR®, an Airbus A400M-transportable biological lab registered with the Belgian Ministry of Defence and the European Air Transport Command (EATC), enabling rapid projection across NATO and EU theatres.​

• Scale from single-unit deployments to multi-site operational footprints for progressive capability build-up.​​

Discover more on https://praesens.care/​

Aspichi is a health technology company building the infrastructure layer for human resilience. Through its platform Luminify, Aspichi delivers AI-powered mixed reality (MR) therapy and diagnostics that enable scalable, data-driven psychological care and rehabilitation. Luminify transforms how care is delivered, moving from resource-heavy, limited-access models to scalable, adaptive systems that reach large and diverse populations, from clinical environments to high-demand humanitarian and defence settings.​

Luminify enables healthcare providers, rehabilitation centres, mental health programmes, humanitarian organisations, and defence-related recovery efforts, with proven applications across hospitals, prosthetics centres, and services supporting war-affected populations and recovering veterans.​

What's in it for you?​

• Make evidence-based mental health support and rehabilitation accessible to significantly larger groups, without increasing pressure on clinicians.​

• Increase participation, motivation, and adherence through immersive mixed reality environments that turn therapy into an active, personalized experience.​

• Enable continuously improving, responsive care pathways tailored to individual needs by combining AI with real-world behavioural data.​

• Support prevention, recovery, and long-term resilience across systems with a platform that goes beyond a single therapeutic tool.​​

Discover more on https://www.luminify.aspichi.com/​

Kenku Health is a data-driven health tech company that helps healthcare professionals provide evidence-based, personalized care. Its platform connects complex patient lifestyle data (nutrition, activity, sleep, and stress) to metabolic markers such as glucose and ketone levels, turning everything into clear insights. By combining these insights with the patient's broader profile of data, habits, and goals, Kenku Health gives professionals real-time visibility into how daily habits affect health and performance.​

Kenku Health supports health and lifestyle professionals, clinics, and hospitals, with validated use cases spanning GPs, dietitians, performance coaches, peri-menopause doctors, gynaecologists, neurologists, and other specialists driving sustainable habit transformation and measurable improvements in health outcomes.

What's in it for you?​

• Gain a full picture of each client's lifestyle and body response based on continuously captured data, making iteasier to understand what happens in their daily life.​

• Access insights grounded in over 30,000 sources, specifically correlated to each individual's data for maximumrelevance.​

• Focus limited consultation time on meaningful care decisions, with a clear one-page report automaticallyprepared before each session.​

• Deliver objective, data-driven guidance tailored to each client's habits, needs, and goals for stronger resilienceand better performance over time.​

Discover more on https://kenku.health​

Nanoworx is a Netherlands-based CRO specializing in nanomedicine formulation and development. The company combines deep expertise in nanomedicine platforms with fully automated formulation and screening infrastructure to accelerate the path from concept to a clinic-ready product. By integrating advanced automation with specialized scientific know-how, Nanoworx helps innovators develop and optimize nanomedicine candidates faster and more efficiently.​

Nanoworx supports biotech companies, scale-ups, research institutes, medical centers, and pharmaceutical companies from early research to clinical preparation, with validated use cases including commercial formulation projects for Dutch and UK clients, research collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and long-term projects with European partners and medical centres.​

What's in it for you?​

• Accelerate the path from early concept to optimized nanomedicine candidate through automated formulation and screening.​
• Identify promising formulations faster with advanced screening capabilities that reduce trial-and-error in development.​
• Make better formulation decisions across a range of nanomedicine approaches, supported by deep platform knowledge.​
• Refine and advance nanomedicine products toward clinical readiness, more efficiently.​

Discover more on https://nanoworx.nl/​

InnVentAir is a Belgian medtech startup based in Leuven, building the next generation of mechanical ventilators. Built on the expertise of emergency medicine specialists within the KU Leuven / UZ Leuven ecosystem, InnVentAir makes ventilation smarter and more personalized, closing the adaptability and clinical-usability gaps COVID-19 made impossible to ignore. A dual-use technology that makes expert-level ventilation deliverable wherever care is needed, from tertiary ICU to tactical field care.​

InnVentAir serves ICU and emergency departments, military medical services, pre-hospital services, and humanitarian organisations, with particular strength in mass-casualty response, CBRNe, pandemic preparedness, and field deployments.​

What's in it for you?​

• Rethink mechanical ventilation from the ground up, with systems that adapt to individual patient needs rather than fixed protocols.​
• Rely on technology designed by emergency and military medicine specialists around how doctors and nurses actually work under pressure.​
• Benefit from development within the KU Leuven and UZ Leuven ecosystem, one of Europe's leading hubs for medical innovation.​
• Deploy smarter, more adaptable ventilators where standard ICU conditions cannot be assumed.​

Discover more on https://www.innventair.com/​

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PointCaré is a Belgian medtech startup on a mission to unlock the full potential of agentic AI in high-acuity clinical environments. Its platform, on target, acts as a central intelligence layer that leads the evolution towards intelligent connected systems in critical care environments. ontarget supports the entire critical care journey, from preoperative evaluation and optimization to postoperative handover and ICU stay, assisting in both clinical excellence and operational efficiency.​

PointCaré targets anaesthesiologists and critical care teams as its first market, with pilots underway in hospitals and a clear path toward military medical services and field deployments, where AI-assisted decision support in high-pressure, data-scarce environments can directly determine patient outcomes.​

What's in it for you?​

• Receive clear insights and actionable guidance at every stage by combining patient history, real-time data, and clinical context.​
• Stay ahead, work more efficiently, and make confident decisions when it matters most.​
• Cut through alarm fatigue and information overload by prioritising what matters, focusing on the patient rather than the screens.​
• Support the entire critical care journey, from preoperative evaluation to postoperative handover and ICU stay.​

Discover more on https://pointcare.be/​

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Replique is a German startup that lets industrial companies order spare parts or small series parts on demand through a single digital platform, saving significant onboarding and admin cost in procurement and lead time. Instead of holding physical inventory, manufacturers connect to a global network of vetted production partners, sourcing parts instantly using technologies ranging from 3D printing to CNC machining, casting, forging, and injection moulding.​

Replique targets defence procurement agencies, medical device manufacturers, industrial OEMs, and supply chain managers, with validated use cases across spare parts logistics, field-deployable medical equipment, prototype development, and on-demand production where standard supply chains are unavailable, disrupted, or too slow.​

What's in it for you?​

• Access 3D printing, CNC machining, forging, casting, and injection moulding, all through a single platform and one point of contact.​
• Move from first prototype to series production and spare parts, without managing multiple suppliers or production steps.​
• Cut lead times and reduce dependency on fragile supply chains through on-demand, localised production.​
• Manufacture critical components locally when standard logistics fail in conflict zones or mass-casualty events, turning production into a strategic asset.​

Discover more on https://www.replique.io/en/​

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