GLOBAL FACTOR INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING SL

Their core work

Global Factor International Consulting is a Bilbao-based Spanish SME that provides business modeling, market analysis, and decision support to technically-led EU research consortia. Their work sits at the boundary between industrial research and commercial application — they help projects translate scientific outputs into actionable tools that businesses can actually use. Across their two H2020 projects, they contributed to decision support frameworks for agri-food waste valorization and participated in advanced materials development for lightweight green vehicles. Their Basque Country base places them inside one of Europe's densest industrial ecosystems, giving them strong ties to manufacturing, automotive, and food processing industries.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their H2020 participation opened in the food and bio-based space, with MODEL2BIO (2020) focused on decision support tools for converting agri-food residues into commercial bio-products. By 2021 they had shifted into advanced manufacturing for transport, joining FLAMINGo to work on aluminium metal matrix composites for lightweight green vehicles — a technically distinct domain. The trajectory suggests they are expanding beyond food-sector consulting into industrial materials and transport decarbonization, likely following where EU funding and Basque industrial networks are pointing.

They are moving from bio-based industry consulting toward advanced manufacturing and green transport materials, positioning themselves at the intersection of industrial decarbonization and circular material use.

How they like to work

Global Factor has never led a project — in both H2020 participations they joined as a partner, contributing specific consulting or modeling expertise to consortia led by others. Despite only two projects, they have accumulated 25 unique partners across 10 countries, which points to mid-to-large consortia of roughly 12 partners each. This profile fits a specialist contributor that adds business modeling, exploitation planning, or decision-tool development to research-heavy teams, rather than a coordinator that designs and manages the whole effort.

With 25 unique consortium partners across 10 countries from just two projects, they work in notably broad, international consortia averaging around 12 partners each. Their Bilbao base likely anchors them in Spanish and broader Iberian networks, but the 10-country reach indicates genuinely European-level collaboration.

What sets them apart

They are one of very few consulting SMEs that spans both agri-food bio-economy and advanced transport materials within H2020 — most consultancies stick to one technical domain. Being based in Bilbao, in the heart of the Basque industrial cluster, gives them direct access to automotive, steel, and food processing companies that are natural end-users of the research they support. For a consortium builder, they offer a combination of business modeling capability and deep regional industry networks in one of Spain's most industrially active regions.

Highlights from their portfolio

• FLAMINGo
  The largest-funded project (EUR 164,832) and a striking sector pivot — a consulting SME participating in hands-on aluminium composites fabrication for green vehicles signals either strong materials industry connections or a deliberate push into transport decarbonization.
• MODEL2BIO
  Their entry into H2020 through a decision support tool for agri-food waste valorization demonstrates the kind of cross-disciplinary consulting role — bridging data modeling and industrial application — that defines their approach.