We're thrilled and deeply grateful to see our Crimson product honored by the European Commission at hashtagSecurity Research Event 2025 with the Security Innovation Award 2025, which recognizes the innovation with the greatest impact on the security of the European Union. This award is a significant recognition of the particularly innovative nature of our field-proven product. For several years, it has made important and consistent contributions to advancing the state of the art in its field. Its widespread adoption in both civilian and military domains, as well as by numerous European projects (which have made it a reference research platform for both Horizon Europe and the European Defence Fund), confirms Crimson's significant impact on European security both in the research world and for the most critical operational applications.

We embarked on this Crimson adventure in a PASR RTD project quite some time ago following the devastating AZF factory explosion in Toulouse, our hometown.

Innovation often requires time, not to mention a fair amount of luck.

We had a vision: to use our expertise in virtual reality and simulation to develop tools to train first responders to manage such disasters. At the time, we believed that changing end-users’ operational methods and tools was out of reach. But we were wrong. Crimson was actually adopted for crisis management first, before training.

Looking ahead, we are more motivated than ever to serve the protection and defense of European populations, public and natural sites, and critical infrastructures. Crimson is now spreading across Europe into other domains and, recently, into the defence sector to enable more effective inter-organizational, multi-domain, and cross-border collaboration during major incidents and crisis.

This award fuels our ambition to continue innovating, pushing the boundaries of what's possible to support those who protect us.

It is with particularly high honor that we see Crimson adopted by European projects as a research platform for inventing next-generation security and defence systems and benefit from Crimson to accelerate innovation and open a direct path to exploitation and adoption.