The world’s first industrial scale biorefinery plant for producing new 100% bio-based plastic to be built Vast amounts of plastics are used on a daily basis resulting in heavy impacts on the environment. The groundbreaking PEFerence project provides relief to the situation: applications such as packing ma... Circular Bio-based Europe (CBE) EU project management Funding proposal preparation
Partnership Announced: Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" and Finnish Company TEKLAB Improving quality and cost-efficiency of training in nanomaterials world-wide At the Moscow RUSNANOTECH 2011, ETU and TEKLAB announced their partnership in commercializing the NanoLab, a highly cost-e...
Open Innovation across the Grid – Fingrid announces idea competition winners Launched in October 2015 the Fingrid idea competition challenged companies of all sizes to submit their business ideas addressing the topic of grid maintenance development. Which, essentially, means e...
Okmetic to lead a 9.4 M€ EU-funded ENIAC project PROMINENT European partnership focusing on nanoelectronics ENIAC Joint Undertaking has granted funding for a project coordinated by Okmetic Oyj. The total budget of the “Processes for MEMS by Inkjet Enhanced Te...
Novel solar thermal collectors combining materials technology, energy efficiency and architecture Aurubis Finland Oy (former Luvata Pori Rolled Products) has developed a novel solution for energy efficient buildings. Their Nordic Solar concept now demonstrated in full scale in the Pori swimming ha...
Nordic EU countries named Innovation Leaders in the 7th FP7 monitoring report Sweden, Denmark and Finland were ranked as innovation leaders with respective ranks of first, second and fourth in the innovation scoreboard in the EU Framework Programme 7 (FP7) monitoring report. Ac...
Nominate the CTOs of the Year 2019 The title of the CTO of the Year is awarded annually to highlight the importance of Chief Technology Officers to the future competitiveness of Finnish industries. Promote the CTO who has made an impac...
In the news: Spinverse-coordinated EU project IP4Plasma uses plasma to fight diseases Euronews just published a fascinating piece onSpinverse-coordinated EU project IP4Plasma, exploring superpowers of plasma for innovative rapid tests for tuberculosis and HIV. The current gold standard...
New processes call for corrosion resistant materials New processes and upgrading the old ones in the pulp, paper and energy industry set high requirements for the materials. The need to increase the process efficiency leading to higher temperatures and ...
New perspective to Horizon 2020 applications from the evaluator's point of view Are you struggling with your Horizon 2020 proposal ? A good ideamight betolook at the proposal writing process fromthe point of view of theevaluator, who eventually evaluatesyour proposal. Watchthe fo...
New EU Innovation Material's centre to be based in Finland The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) has made a decision to finance a European innovation cluster specialised in the field of minerals. The new innovation cluster will focus on the ...
New competencies needed as digitalisation advances in Finnish industry Companies are now investing in digitalisation due to the competitive advantage and customer value it brings and not due to cost savings. Finnish CTOs believe that the key challenge in digitalisation i...