ASIO TECH SPOL SRO

Their core work

ASIO TECH is a Czech technology SME based in Brno that works on environmental solutions at the intersection of water management and circular economy. Their EU research participation reveals expertise in recovering resources — energy, nutrients, and materials — from wastewater and agricultural waste streams. In the Circular Agronomics project, they contributed to improving how nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon cycle through the European agri-food system, with a focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and nitrate pollution from manure and food waste. They function as an industrial partner in research consortia, bringing applied technology development alongside academic and institute partners.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

ASIO TECH's earliest H2020 involvement (SuPER-W, from 2016) centred on wastewater treatment and recovering value — energy and materials — from waste streams, which is consistent with a water technology SME expanding into research collaboration. Their subsequent project, Circular Agronomics (from 2018), applied the same core logic of resource recovery and nutrient management to the agricultural domain, focusing on manure, nitrate, food waste, and bioenergy within the agri-food value chain. The trajectory suggests a deliberate extension from water/wastewater technology into agri-environmental applications, where competencies in nutrient cycling and life cycle assessment overlap significantly.

ASIO TECH appears to be extending water and waste technology expertise into the agri-food circular economy space, positioning them as a candidate industrial partner for future projects on nutrient recovery from manure, agricultural emission reduction, or food waste valorisation.

How they like to work

ASIO TECH has never held a coordinator role in H2020, always joining as a partner or participant within larger consortia. Their two projects brought them into contact with 34 distinct partner organisations across 12 countries — an unusually broad network for a two-project portfolio, reflecting consistent participation in large, multi-stakeholder research networks rather than small bilateral collaborations. This pattern fits a specialist industrial SME that offers specific technology expertise to consortia rather than driving the overall project agenda.

Despite only two H2020 projects, ASIO TECH has built connections with 34 unique partners across 12 countries — a relatively wide European footprint that reflects participation in large RIA and MSCA consortium schemes. There is no visible pattern of repeated bilateral partnerships, suggesting each project brought an essentially new network of collaborators.

What sets them apart

As a Czech SME technology company, ASIO TECH occupies a practical mid-point between laboratory research and commercial deployment in water and nutrient management — the kind of industry grounding that research-heavy consortia often need but struggle to find. Their value to a consortium is the applied angle: testing, validating, and potentially commercialising what academic partners develop, within a Central European operational context. For agri-food or environmental consortia that need an industrial SME with hands-on experience in wastewater and nutrient systems, ASIO TECH fills a role that universities and institutes cannot.

Highlights from their portfolio

• Circular Agronomics
  Their highest-funded project (EUR 303,000) and most thematically rich, addressing the full range of nutrient and carbon cycling challenges in European agriculture — from manure and nitrate pollution to food waste valorisation and bioenergy.
• SuPER-W
  An MSCA European Joint Doctorate network on wastewater resource recovery, demonstrating ASIO TECH's early entry as an industry partner in high-level research training initiatives, which typically require credible industrial relevance.