ENTOMO CONSULTING SL

Their core work

ENTOMO Consulting is a Spanish SME based in Murcia that works at the intersection of circular bioeconomy consulting and organic waste valorization. Their work centers on turning urban and agricultural organic waste — particularly fruit and vegetable streams — into commercially viable products such as protein and biofertilizers, with a strong emphasis on making these solutions economically and socially viable. In EU projects they serve as implementation and business-model partners, contributing market development expertise, consumer engagement strategies, and new business model design rather than laboratory research. The company name "ENTOMO" (insects) combined with their protein and biofertilizer focus strongly suggests involvement in insect-based bioconversion technology, a growing niche in EU bioeconomy policy.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their earlier project (VALUEWASTE, 2018–2022), ENTOMO operated across a broad circular bioeconomy agenda — covering waste management, protein recovery, resource efficiency, consumer engagement, and social innovation simultaneously, suggesting a generalist consultancy role within a large multi-topic consortium. Their more recent project (RUSTICA, 2021–2024) shows a clear narrowing: the keyword set shrinks dramatically to just 'fruit and vegetable waste streams' and 'biofertilizer', pointing to a deliberate move toward technical specialization in agricultural waste-to-fertilizer pathways. The trajectory is from broad bioeconomy consulting toward specific applied solutions in organic waste valorization for agriculture.

ENTOMO appears to be sharpening its niche toward technical implementation of organic waste valorization in agriculture — likely biofertilizer production from food-chain residues — which positions them well for future Green Deal and Farm-to-Fork aligned calls.

How they like to work

ENTOMO has participated exclusively as a consortium partner — never as a coordinator — across both projects, indicating a preference or current capacity for specialist contributor roles rather than project leadership. They have accumulated 35 unique partners across just 2 projects, suggesting they operate within large, multi-partner Innovation Action consortia rather than small focused teams. This breadth of partner exposure makes them a well-connected node in the EU bioeconomy network despite their small size.

ENTOMO has built a surprisingly wide network for a 2-project SME — 35 unique consortium partners spanning 11 countries, consistent with the large consortium structure typical of Horizon 2020 Innovation Actions. Their geographic reach likely spans Western and Southern Europe, reflecting common H2020 food and bioeconomy consortia compositions.

What sets them apart

ENTOMO occupies an unusual niche as a small Spanish consulting firm with direct hands-on experience in both the demand side (consumer awareness, social innovation) and supply side (waste valorization, biofertilizer strategies) of circular bioeconomy projects — a combination that is rare among pure research partners or pure business consultancies. Their location in Murcia, one of Spain's most intensive fruit and vegetable production regions, gives them credible proximity to the exact agri-food waste streams their projects address. For a consortium seeking a partner who can translate bioeconomy research into market-ready business models and engage regional agri-food actors, ENTOMO offers specific contextual value that larger consultancies typically cannot replicate.

Highlights from their portfolio

• VALUEWASTE
  Their largest project (€598,588) tackled the full complexity of urban biowaste valorization across protein recovery, critical raw materials, and social innovation — demonstrating ENTOMO's ability to contribute across multiple workstreams in a broad-scope Innovation Action.
• RUSTICA
  Demonstrates a sharpened technical focus on circular biofertilisers from agricultural waste streams, with direct relevance to EU Farm-to-Fork and soil health policy priorities through 2024.