REMIT Research

What REMIT Research does

REMIT Research (full legal name: REMIT: Reignite Multilateralism via Technology) is a non-commercial EU-funded academic research consortium that began operations in March 2023 under the EU's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme, grant agreement No 101094228. Coordinated by Maastricht University, the project assembles nine partner institutions across eight European countries (Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, and the United Kingdom), with Virtual Routes (formerly ECCRI) joining as associate partner from the UK. The consortium's mandate is to produce policy-relevant analysis and theory-building on how the EU can shape global technology governance across four focus areas: digital technologies, health bio technologies, security and defence technologies, and financial technologies.

REMIT delivers a portfolio of research outputs rather than commercial products. Its core deliverables include academic publications (policy briefs, op-eds, briefing papers, journal articles), interactive Tableau dashboards visualizing research data on topics ranging from ECB's Digital Euro framing to subsea data infrastructure damage, an annual conference series (Leuven 2024, Rome 2026), scenario-testing workshops employing a methodology developed with the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, a limited podcast series titled 'Global Futures: Tech&Multilateralism', and regular newsletters. All outputs are freely distributed via the project website and partner institutions.

The business model is entirely grant-funded: REMIT does not sell products or services, charges no fees, and generates no commercial revenue. Its 'customers' are stakeholder audiences — EU policy makers, NATO officials, member-state diplomats, European External Action Service staff, think-tank analysts, and academic researchers — who consume the outputs to inform policy work on technology governance. The project runs on a fixed four-year horizon (2023–2027), creating an inherent funding-cliff dependency on successor EU research funding or grant continuation beyond the current Horizon Europe cycle.

Name

REMIT Research

Legal name

REMIT: Reignite Multilateralism via Technology

Website

https://remit-research.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

REMIT Research is an EU Horizon Europe-funded academic consortium of nine European universities coordinated by Maastricht University, producing non-commercial policy research, interactive dashboards, workshops, and conferences on digital, health bio, security, and financial technology governance for EU policymakers, diplomats, and academics.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Policy Research Services

NAICS

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417), International Affairs (928120), National Security and International Affairs (9281)

SIC

International Affairs (9721)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Policy, Data Governance & Cybersecurity Standards Cooperation (BPADANAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Peace, Security & Arms Control Organizations (BPADAAAF)

Keywords

• Technology governance research
• EU policy research
• Strategic technology studies
• Multilateralism analysis
• Digital policy research

Headquarters

HQ city

Maastricht

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. EU Horizon Europe Research Grant: REMIT is funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 101094228. The project does not generate commercial revenue but is sustained through EU research funding to support its research activities, conferences, workshops, and dissemination outputs.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

REMIT (Reignite Multilateralism via Technology) is an EU Horizon Europe-funded research consortium producing policy analysis, academic publications, interactive data dashboards, annual conferences, and scenario-testing workshops. The project delivers interdisciplinary research across four technology domains (digital, health bio, security & defence, and financial technologies) to support EU policy making on global technology governance and multilateralism.

Product overview

REMIT Research (Reignite Multilateralism via Technology) is an EU Horizon Europe-funded research consortium, not a commercial product company. The project delivers a portfolio of research services including publications (policy briefs, op-eds, articles, briefing papers), interactive data dashboards visualizing research findings, annual conferences for knowledge dissemination, scenario-testing workshops for stakeholder engagement, a podcast series titled 'Global Futures: Tech&Multilateralism', and regular newsletters. These outputs collectively serve the project's mission to transform EU's role in global governance across four technology domains: digital, health bio, security & defence, and finance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Annual Conferences Annual conference series bringing together scholars and experts from REMIT and non-REMIT partner institutions to share multidisciplinary insights on strategic technology governance. Notable events include the 2024 conference in Leuven and the 2026 conference in Rome titled 'Regulating Strategic Technologies: Global Governance, Geopolitics and Individual Rights'.
• Scenario Testing Workshops Interactive workshops employing scenario-testing methodology developed by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre to engage experts and policymakers in examining future implications of AI in military domains and other strategic technologies for European security.
• Interactive Dashboards Data-driven interactive dashboards presenting research findings through visualizations, covering topics such as ECB's Digital Euro framing, Black Sea geopolitics, Chinese vaccine diplomacy, global digital governance, AI in elections, and subsea data infrastructure.
• Research Publications Academic outputs including policy briefs, op-eds, briefing papers, articles, and working papers addressing technology governance, geopolitics, digital policy, and strategic technologies across four focus areas: digital, health bio, security & defence, and finance.
• Global Futures: Tech&Multilateralism Podcast Limited podcast series exploring topics at the intersection of technology and multilateralism, available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other platforms.

Quantifiable outcome

• Multiple research outputs including dashboards, policy briefs, op-eds, working papers, journal articles, and conference proceedings addressing strategic technology governance
• +2 more outcomes

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Maastricht UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMaastricht University (UM) serves as the project coordinator for REMIT. It offers almost all teaching programs in English and is renowned for high levels of research excellence in European and international law, policy, and governance. Its location near Brussels through Campus Brussels facilitates outreach to European policymakers. Researchers from University College Maastricht (UCM) and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) contribute to the project.
• Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai (UBB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBabeș-Bolyai University (UBB) is Romania's oldest and largest university, dating back to 1581, and has been ranked the best university in Romania since 2016. The Institute of International Relations and Area Studies brings expertise on Black Sea regionalization, energy security, and regional cooperation.
• University of BremencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity of Bremen is a research-strong university attended by over 18,000 students, member of YUFE and YERUN networks. The team serves as lead for the focus area 'Normative Construction of Technology Governance' and focuses on Internet, Platform and AI governance using qualitative interviews, quantitative surveys, and mixed-methods analysis.
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKU Leuven is one of Europe's leading universities providing quality education and highly valued research across disciplines including computer science, law, engineering, and social sciences. Its law faculty ranked 1st in THE World University Rankings 2021 Research. The Public Governance Institute (PGI) leads multidisciplinary work with support from COSIC computer security science and CITIP IT law expertise.
• Luiss Università di RomacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLuiss Università di Roma is a prestigious independent university in Rome with Politics and International Studies ranked 1st in Italy, 2nd in Europe, and 14th in the world. LUISS contributes to the focus topic 'Geopolitics in Technology Governance' by understanding current geopolitical stances of the EU, US and China towards four policy areas.
• Erasmus Universiteit RotterdamcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerErasmus University Rotterdam's Department of Public Administration and Sociology is world-leading in public policy with expertise in European and global governance. Within REMIT, EUR studies stakeholders in the governance of artificial intelligence in Europe.
• Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFIIA is an independent research institute operating in connection with the Finnish Parliament, producing high-quality research on international relations and European Union for academics, decision-makers, and public debate. FIIA leads research on Geopolitics in Technology Governance with expertise on US foreign policy, transatlantic relations, great-power politics, and European security and defence policy.
• University of TartucoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity of Tartu was founded in 1632 and is the oldest university in the Baltics, highest ranked in the Baltics, and member of the prestigious Coimbra Group. The Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies combines top-level research with strong teaching capacities. The team is responsible for disseminating project results and supporting exploitation activities.
• Virtual Routes (formerly European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative, ECCRI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVirtual Routes promotes interdisciplinary study of cyber conflict and statecraft in Europe and beyond, located in the United Kingdom. It makes rigorous research on cyber conflict accessible to policymakers and the public, running initiatives from writing workshops to the annual Big Cyber Ideas Festival. Within REMIT, the team spearheads research on the interplay between technology, society, and governance.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Bruegel: European economic think tank producing research on EU economic policy including digital euro, financial technology governance, and industrial strategy — directly overlapping REMIT's finance technology focus area and dashboard-style data outputs.
• Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS): Brussels-based think tank producing interdisciplinary EU policy research including digital, security, and finance domains. Directly comparable scope across REMIT's four technology areas, with established policy-brief delivery format and EU-institution access.
• EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS): EU agency producing research and analysis on European security and defence policy including emerging technologies and cyber. Directly comparable to REMIT's security & defence technology focus and stakeholder engagement with EU institutions and member states.
• Carnegie Europe: Brussels-based think tank within the Carnegie Endowment network producing research on European security, technology policy, and transatlantic relations. Comparable to REMIT's policy-recommendation function and stakeholder base (EU institutions, member states), but with permanent funding and larger publication footprint.
• German Marshall Fund (GMF): US-European think tank with a Brussels office producing research on technology policy, democracy, and transatlantic relations. Comparable to REMIT's tech-governance and security & defence focus areas with overlapping audience of EU/NATO policymakers.
• European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR): Major pan-European think tank producing policy research on EU foreign policy, technology governance, and geopolitics. Directly comparable to REMIT in audience (EU policymakers, diplomats) and topic overlap (digital sovereignty, China, multilateralism), but operates at far greater scale with permanent staff.
• Chatham House: Royal Institute of International Affairs producing research on international security, technology governance, and global governance. James Shires (REMIT Virtual Routes lead) was previously Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House, indicating personnel and thematic overlap with REMIT's cybersecurity and AI governance work.

Emerging players

• Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV): Berlin-based think tank producing policy analysis on digital infrastructure, AI governance, cybersecurity, and platform regulation. Comparable to REMIT's digital-technology focus area and policy-brief delivery format, focused primarily on German/EU-level audiences.

Regional players

• European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO): Brussels-based European public-private partnership focused on cybersecurity R&D and policy, with Horizon Europe alignment. Comparable to REMIT's cybersecurity governance and digital-policy work, with overlapping EU stakeholder access but commercial-sector orientation.

Direct peers

• Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA): FIIA is itself a REMIT consortium partner (leads Work Package 4 on Geopolitics in Technology Governance), but operates as a comparable standalone research institute producing policy briefs on EU security, technology, and defence with direct Finnish Parliament connection.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Funding overview

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