Welcome to SafeDrop — a Horizon Europe project building a bio-inspired, multimodal photonic–electronic sensor platform that works like a digital dog nose for rapid, on-site diagnostics.
Project at a glance
- Duration: 1 June 2026 – 31 May 2030 (48 months)
- Coordinator: Fraunhofer IAP, Germany
- Consortium: 10 partners across 7 European countries
- Grant: Horizon Europe — Grant Agreement No. 101299090
What we aim to deliver
SafeDrop will integrate silicon-photonic Mach–Zehnder interferometers with thin-film transistors in co-localised K-cells, deposit a cross-responsive organic-semiconductor coating library via ESJET printing, and decode multimodal fingerprints with AI/MIMO analytics — all in a field-deployable cartridge targeting ≤ €10 cost and <1 W power.
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K-cells in the array
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Use-case demonstrators
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Target accuracy
Meet the consortium
Our partners span the full value chain — from organic-semiconductor chemistry and silicon photonics to readout electronics, AI and field validation:
Fraunhofer IAP · ICMPP · FBK · PHIX · DCU · MTU · FPS · OLV · LAN · SPI
Four demonstrators
- Water quality — heavy metals and pathogens at ppb–ppt levels
- Health / UTI — point-of-care diagnostics in minutes
- Food safety — contaminants in apple juice and related matrices
- Air / VOC — exploratory lab validation, moving toward drone-mounted sensing
On the horizon
Following a successful kick-off at Fraunhofer IAP on 18–19 June 2026, the consortium is now entering Month 3. Up next: the public website and communication channels go live, requirements and specification work accelerates under WP1, and the first project newsletter reaches subscribers.
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