17 July 2025
- Over the course of the project, Zabala Innovation manages all communication efforts, ensuring that the project’s milestones and outcomes are effectively shared, and a strong community is built.
Shaping the future of defence logistics requires more than just innovation—it demands collaboration, shared expertise, and a strong vision. DISCMAM EDF Project is taking on this challenge, bringing together 10 leading industrial entities and research institutions to drive progress in the sector. But a project of this scale needs more than technical breakthroughs; it needs a voice. This is where Zabala Innovation plays a key role, ensuring that DISCMAM’s progress is effectively communicated and that messages are aligned to reach the right audiences.
Through strategic communication, Zabala translates complex developments into compelling narratives, enriched by diverse perspectives and experiences. Beyond sharing updates, the company is focused on building long-lasting relationships with stakeholders, fostering a strong and engaged community that will sustain the project’s impact well into the future.
By amplifying the voices behind DISCMAM, Zabala is not just reporting progress—it is shaping the conversation around the future of defence logistics.
Zabala Innovation: Supporting innovation from concept to execution
Founded in Spain in 1986, Zabala Innovation is a leading international consultancy firm specializing in securing funding for innovation, research, and development projects. The company supports a diverse range of clients—including businesses, research institutions, and public entities—in accessing grants, subsidies, and public funding from both national and European sources.
With a strong focus on strategic consulting, the company assists organizations in designing, managing, and implementing innovation projects. Their expertise covers proposal preparation, project management, consortium building, and ensuring compliance with funding requirements. The company has played a pivotal role in numerous large-scale European consortia, particularly within Horizon Europe programs and the European Defence Fund (EDF). Notably, Zabala team has led communication, dissemination, and management activities in more EDF projects such as IntSen2 and BODYGUARD.
The DISCMAM partner actively contributes to the execution of European projects, assuming critical roles in project management, results exploitation, dissemination and communication strategies, social innovation, and cascade funding management, among others.
Zabala Innovation operates with an international team of over 500 professionals across 13 offices, including locations in Madrid, Brussels, Paris, Barcelona, Lisbon, Valencia, Bordeaux, and Seville. This widespread presence allows the company to provide tailored support to clients across Europe and beyond.
Within the DISCMAM project, Ana Báscones takes the lead in communication and dissemination activities. As a skilled journalist with extensive experience in managing EU-funded projects, Ana works in close coordination with her team to ensure the project’s visibility and the effective dissemination of results.
How DISCMAM is expanding its influence in defence logistics
DISCMAM leverages Zabala Innovation’s expertise in dissemination and communication to ensure the project’s findings reach key stakeholders and create a lasting impact.
From the very beginning, the first action undertaken in terms of communication, was the development of a recognizable brand, aimed at ensuring consistency and visibility. To achieve this, the project’s website was designed as the central hub of information, serving not only consortium partners but also industrial and research stakeholders, as well as the general public. The website provides public information about the project, participation in strategic events such as AM Village and FORMNEXT and updates on how DISCMAM is advancing defence logistics through on-site additive manufacturing innovations. This information is also actively shared on LinkedIn, helping the project reach specialized media and digital publications.
Expanding the project’s impact and strengthening its positioning has also been possible through the publication of press releases in key magazines and defence media specialized in additive manufacturing.
Building Synergies: DISCMAM and ROLIAC collaboration
Fostering synergies that enhance integration within the sector is one of the core actions of the communication and dissemination strategy. In these sense, partnering with sister projects, such as ROLIAC EDF project, enables greater outreach and impact through joint written content, such as press releases and coordinated LinkedIn campaigns. Additionally, both projects have joined forces at conferences and industry events, strengthening their shared mission: advancing the European defense sector through cutting-edge innovation.
With a particular focus on Additive Manufacturing (AM), these collaborations are driving forward the transformation of the defense industry by applying advanced manufacturing and digital technologies.
As DISCMAM enters its second project phase, Zabala Innovation will continue to push boundaries, further enhancing clustering actions and focusing on the dissemination of results through scientific publications and outreach activities. Strengthening synergies will remain a priority, ensuring that the project continues to build strong, long-lasting relationships with key stakeholders.
Through these efforts, DISCMAM aims to leave a lasting mark and shape the future of defense logistics, reinforcing Europe’s leadership in innovation-driven security and manufacturing advancements.