The University of Valencia (UVEG) stands out as one of the main public research organisations in Spain, with more than three thousand researchers integrated in 84 departments, 21 institutes and 5 other research units, belonging to social, biomedical, human, experimental and formal sciences. Along with human resources, the UVEG state-of-art premises and facilities, together with its instrumental equipment, both guarantee the quality of a vast scientific and technological offer available to the service of society.

GasTerra is the major Dutch gas trading company operating across various market segments. GasTerra promotes safe and efficient use of natural gas and the need for the transition to a sustainable energy supply. GasTerra has specialist knowledge of gas markets and the incorporation of renewable gases in the market. GasTerra strongly promotes exchanging knowledge and promote public debate, which can be a positive contribution to the transition to sustainable energy sources.

ABSint is a private research centre and consultancy specialized in intellectual asset management in biotechnology. ABSint is dedicated to assist its clients with maximizing the value of their R&D results. ABSint develops tools and provides expertise that help biotech organizations to navigate and comply with often complex regulations.

AEV Energy GmbH provides the planning of plant and facilities, process engineering and equipment for the processing and utilization as an energy source of organic materials such as industrial and municipal sludge, organic waste, renewable organic resources and agricultural residues.

Aras de los Olmos is a rural town located in the northwest of the province of Valencia, between the rivers Turia and Arcos. OLMOS is 100 km far from the city of Valencia, and has 400 inhabitants.

Despite being a small town, OLMOS is immersed in several innovative initiatives to improve the town and work towards climate change mitigation.

BEV supports and promotes the development and market launch of environmentally friendly and sustainable technologies, focusing on the research, dissemination and use of modern, environmentally friendly processes in the fields of biohydrogen, biomass use and renewable energy technology.

The Technische Universität Dresden is one of the leading and most dynamic universities in Germany and since 2012 it is one of eleven ‘Universities of Excellence’ in Germany. TUD has about 32,000 students and over 8,200 employees, 560 professors among them. As a full-curriculum university with 18 faculties in five schools it offers a broad variety of 129 degree programmes and covers a wide research spectrum.

Founded in 2000 in Thessaloniki (GR), DRAXIS is a dynamic company that focuses on providing specialised environmental consultation services and developing real life environmental ICT solutions.

Bioclear earth B.V., a Dutch Small Medium Enterprise (SME), is an innovation and consulting company established over 30 years ago. Bioclear’s mission and vision is to make the world cleaner, safer and more sustainable by using the power of nature. BIOCLEAR provides sustainable solutions based on natural, biological processes to its clients: governmental bodies and companies/industries.

UPV is currently considered one of the leading universities in Spain, being the single Science and Technology University in Spain to feature in all worlds’ university rankings. Founded in 1971, it comprises nearly 30,000 students, over 2,500 academics and researchers, and 17 university research centres of excellence driven to solve the challenges of the European citizens.

UPV is among the Spanish Universities with the highest revenue from competitive research (R&D contracts, consulting and service delivery, spin-off) and a national leader in patent exploitation.

Ghent University is an open, pluralistic and comprehensive university (11 faculties) that attracts every year over 46,000 students, with a foreign student population of about 6% (40% of PhD students). The university is one of the fastest growing European universities in terms of research capacity and productivity, and its commitment to European research excellence is reflected by the recent extension of the ‘European Office’ in its Research Office.

Finrenes is a Finish SME focused on the biogas sector, specifically transforming biowaste products into improved raw materials for anaerobic digestors. They are technology providers, mainly process design packages for costumers; they also work in existing installations (providing biocraker to existing biogas plants and heat/power plants); and they are also vendors: providing feedstock characterisation services for costumers.

DARWIN is an SME founded in 2016. Darwin`s main focus is microbial bioprospecting, or the search of new microorganisms and/or microbial metabolites that can be used for a range of industrial applications (i.e. probiotics, strains for bioremediation, starter cultures, etc.).

Scienseed is a multifunctional agency for science communication and public engagement founded in 2014. The company specialises in the planning, development and dissemination of science communication strategies using products such as video, web, graphic design, animations, apps and videogames, publications, press releases, advertising campaigns and events.