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Their core work

A Valencia-based renewable engineering SME focused on converting biological waste streams into recoverable resources. Their core competence lies in process engineering for circular bioeconomy applications — specifically capturing ammonia from biogas plant effluents (AMBIENCE) and extracting proteins and other value streams from urban organic waste (VALUEWASTE). They are practitioners, not consultants: AMBIENCE was their own technology concept brought to feasibility stage under an SME Phase 1 grant. Their work sits at the junction of wastewater engineering, biogas process optimization, and bio-based material recovery.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both H2020 projects began in 2018, so no meaningful temporal shift can be traced across different funding periods. Within that single entry point, however, there is a visible scale progression: AMBIENCE is a focused SME Phase 1 feasibility study on a specific biogas plant problem, while VALUEWASTE is a multi-year Innovation Action addressing urban-scale waste systems with protein recovery, social innovation, and consumer dimensions. This suggests the organization was simultaneously testing its own technology concept at small scale while building capability in larger, more complex bioeconomy consortia.

Their longer commitment to VALUEWASTE (running through 2022) and its richer keyword set — proteins, critical raw materials, consumer awareness — points toward broader urban bioeconomy systems as their emerging direction beyond single-stream biogas engineering.

How they like to work

They have taken the coordinator role on their own technology-driven SME Phase 1 project, showing the ability and initiative to lead small, focused feasibility work. As a participant in VALUEWASTE, they joined a larger, multi-country Innovation Action consortium, demonstrating flexibility in both leading and supporting roles. With 19 partners across 6 countries drawn from just 2 projects, they appear to engage in reasonably large European consortia rather than bilateral or local collaborations.

19 unique consortium partners across 6 countries from only 2 projects, which is a high partner density for such a small portfolio. This indicates they have participated in broad, multi-partner European consortia rather than narrow bilateral efforts.

What sets them apart

This SME distinguishes itself by holding proprietary engineering know-how in ammonia capture from biogas effluents — a very specific problem that sits at the overlap of wastewater treatment, agricultural nutrient recovery, and renewable energy. Unlike many consultancy-type SMEs in the bioeconomy space, they demonstrated enough confidence in their own technology to coordinate a Phase 1 SME grant. For consortium builders in the circular bioeconomy or bio-based industries space, they bring hands-on engineering depth in a gap area — biological nutrient recovery — that larger research institutes often address only theoretically.

Highlights from their portfolio

• AMBIENCE
  Coordinator role on their own proprietary concept — a disruptive ammonia capture system for biogas plants — demonstrating technology ownership rather than just project participation.
• VALUEWASTE
  Their largest funded project (€334,542, Innovation Action running to 2022), addressing urban biowaste valorization at scale with a diverse keyword footprint spanning proteins, critical raw materials, and social innovation.