RDI2CluB

Today #connectedbybiobord -project had a #transnational workshop of #innovation process and how it could be adapted. 💡 ConnectedByBiobord's innovation experts from Krinova Incubator & Science Park were leading the workshop. Workshop questions included: 💡What is innovation ? 💡How do we learn ? 💡How do we design ? 💡How do we effectuate ? Workshop recording will be published on #Biobord: https://biobord.eu And stay tuned to follow our next steps in the innovation process piloting 🤩 #bioeconomy #Interreg Interreg Baltic Sea Region EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

#ConnectedByBiobord -project had a kick-off today and here is a summary of the project 🤩 * Funded by EU Development Fund programme Interreg Baltic Sea Region, under Capacity for #Innovation * 01.10.2020 - 30.06.2021 * EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region Bioeconomy flagship project * 9 partners around Baltic Sea Region: 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇳🇴 🇱🇻 🇵🇱 🇪🇪 * JAMK University of Applied Sciences, JAMK biotalous as the lead partner. * Other partners: Krinova Incubator & Science Park Vidzemes plānošanas reģions Høgskolen i Innlandet Institute for Environmental Solutions Tretorget Stockholmi Keskkonnainstituudi Tallinna Keskus, SEI Tallinn Paperprovince Foundation of Social Dialogue PRO Civis * Budget of 900 000€ * Challenges behind the project: - Regional authorities and innovation actors in the #BSR lack experience in implementing smart specialization strategies. - Limited number of actors and innovation infrastructure in the rural BSR - #Bioeconomy unfamiliar, especially among rural bio-based business sector. Challenge to bring together relevant actors and develop regional bioeconomy. Response of ConnectedByBiobord: 👉Innovation support from guidance and best-practices collected from transnational innovation pilots 👉Joint Action Plan as a tool to implement S3 strategy 👉#Biobord -platform as a tool to connect bioeconomy developers and innovation actors around BSR 👉Building the innovation and development community of Biobord 👉Actions raising awareness of bioeconomy in partner regions Follow us here, and find more information from Biobord: https://biobord.eu

Time for recap: What is Biobord ? 🤔 A digital platform for bioeconomy development, with #bioeconomy related users around Baltic Sea Region. Everyone that is interested in bioeconomy, or sustainability in general is welcomed! 🌱👋 * Place for transnational discussion and co-developing = Open #Biobord Forum * Place for project working = Open and Closed forum groups * Communication channel = More than 250 bioeconomy experts reading the Open Biobord forum and news of Biobord Network members * Place to find #innovation support = supporting services (Service cards) and theory (Operating Model) * Networking platform (matchmaking tags on the open forum and forum to network) * Place to find new knowledge (forum, news, On Stage -webinar concept) Find out more: biobord.eu Guidance: https://forum.biobord.eu/t/biobord-training-10-2020/1809/3 Join the discussion!

#Biobord training available! If you have planned to uptake Biobord-platform or you are a new Biobord user, this training is for you! Also, second and third training session is suitable for you, if you already use Biobord but you wish to explore more of its functions. Training takes place in three online events. Participation is free and only takes one hour/event. Welcome to join! 1. LESSON 08.10.2020 at 10:00 - 12:00 (EE): Basics (what is Biobord, registering, setting up a profile and basic functions) 2. LESSON 13.10.2020 at 13:00 - 15:00 (EE): Additional features of the platform 3. LESSON 20.10.2020 at 13:00 - 15:00 (EE): Further steps in the Biobord community (Biobord Network and Biobord brand) Events will take place in Zoom: https://jamk.zoom.us/my/biobord #toolsforbioeconomy #bioeconomy #bioeconomyinnovation #MadeWithInterreg Interreg Baltic Sea Region EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

What kind of regional impact can a project have ? 🤔 Here are some examples from partners of RDI2CluB-project (funded by EU development fund programme Interreg Baltic Sea Region). RDI2CluB project was a three year project that aimed to develop the #bioeconomy of Baltic Sea Region by developing regional innovation ecosystems. Project was implemented with 12 partners across BSR from Central Finland, Inland Norway, Świętokrzyskie Poland, Vidzeme Latvia and Estonia. 🇫🇮 🇳🇴 🇵🇱 🇱🇻 🇪🇪 - Bioeconomy profiles for each region and enhanced focus on the regional Bioeconomy strategy - Regional action plans as an instrument for initiation, development and promotion of measures, aimed to develop regional bioeconomy innovation ecosystem - Awareness raising through various communication matters, Central Finland as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLl4-9jQHSY&t=6s or RDI2CluB's 25 Case -publication: https://ej.uz/25-cases-bioeconomy-BSR - Initiation of national roundtable of bioeconomy in Estonia - New regional bioeconomy events - Results of local pilots, for example air quality measurements for Poland - Joint action plan - as an instrument for initiation, development and promotion of new international projects, aimed to promote development of regional bioeconomy innovation ecosystem. - Youth's involvement to bioeconomy in Poland - New research and technological development initiatives between partners, for example in Latvia -Biobord-platform a tool to forward regional bioeconomy development and to connect transnationally. For example in Norway. You may find us from biobord.eu! #biobord #Interreg Interreg Baltic Sea Region EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

Starting from today, you may find ConnectedByBiobord-project from twitter with@BiobordPlatform✌️ You may also find us from Facebook by@BiobordPlatform and of course from http://Biobord.eu. Join the discussion! Interreg Baltic Sea Region #MadeWithInterreg EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region #bioeconomy

It's a wrap! 🥳 Our three-year project has become to its end and starting from tomorrow this account will be updated by the extension stage project ConnectedByBiobord 😎 Find out here a summary of our main results and lessons learnt: https://t.co/PrstUIlxp8 Thank you!

It's a wrap! 🥳 A three-year project of RDI2CluB (Rural RDI milieus in transition towards smart bioeconomy clusters and innovation ecosystems) has become to its end. Project has been funded by European Development fund programme Interreg Baltic Sea Region, and it has been part of the project family of 2014-2020 under the Priority 1 'Capacity for innovation' that is dedicated to actions strengthening the ability of the Baltic Sea Region to create and commercialize innovation. RDI2CluB has also been a PA Bioeconomy flagship project of EUSBSR. RDI2CluB unites authorities, RDI institutes (research, development, and innovation institutes) and business development bodies from five regions (triple helix consortium) to a joint quest of boosting smart and sustainable bioeconomy development in the rural areas of Baltic Sea Region. Project has been implemented with 12 partners across the BSR: JAMK University of Applied Sciences / Biotalouskampus (FI) Keski-Suomen liitto Regional Council of Central Finland Saarijärven yrityspalvelut /SSYP Kehitys Ltd (FI) Høgskolen i Innlandet Inland Norway university of Applied Sciences Næringsutvikling i Innlandet Inland County Council (NO) Tretorget (NO) Regionalne Centrum Naukowo-Technologiczne (PL) RDI2CluB_Swietokrzyskie Świętokrzyskie Marshall Office (PL) Foundation for Education and Social Dialogue Pro Civis (PL) Institute for Environmental Solutions (LV) Vidzemes plānošanas reģions (LV) Stockholmi Keskkonnainstituudi Tallinna Keskus, SEI Tallinn (EE) Project mission was bringing together bioeconomy developers throughout the rural areas of Baltic Sea Region to a joint table to solve global and local challenges with bioeconomy innovations. Aim was to connect bioeconomy innovation networks to share ideas, share knowledge, raise awareness, find partners and work together to create business opportunities in bioeconomy. To enable international co-operation and co-development we created several tools and methods. Please read our report that describes the main outputs of the project and other results, as well as the lessons that we have learnt from it. Report can be found from Biobord: https://forum.biobord.eu/t/results-of-rdi2club/1777 Outputs and results include: Regional Bioeconomy Profiles Joint Action Plan 25 Cases for Bioeconomy Innovation Around the BSR Biobord.eu -platform Biobord operating Model Local pilot cases and their communication tool called impact report Partners agreed that project was successful even though subject was not easily comprehendible nor easy to implement. Transnational co-operation and the RDI2CluB network were the most valuable creation of RDI2CluB. Biobord-platform will also stay in the use of partners and development work will continue. All outputs will have a place in future, either in educational purposes, co-working purposes, development purposes or as lessons learnt. When asked, how RDI2CluB partners have been benefitted from the project, five most popular answers were: - Increased knowledge of bioeconomy, EU bioeconomy regions, - Larger network and increased transnational co-operation - Improved knowledge of bioeconomy potentials - Stronger regional innovation ecosystem - New opportunities in the field of bioeconomy: projects, business etc. With these results and lessons learnt it is easy to continue the bioeconomy development in the ConnectedByBiobord-project! Starting from tomorrow 01.10.2020 - This Facebook page will be updated by the extension stage project ConnectedByBiobord, that further develops some of these results. Also, JAMK university of Applied Sciences has signed yesterday 29.09.2020 an agreement between RDI2CluB-partners of an official Biobord Network that will continue the work of both projects. Stay tuned for more information! JAMK has also signed to upkeep the platform until the end of 2025, so the good work on the Biobord-platform may continue still several years! You may find old RDI2CluB partners and new ConnectedByBiobord partners from Biobord! A big thank you to all partners and to all stakeholders that have been involved in the RDI2CluB-project. Also a special thank you to the funder Interreg Baltic Sea Region, which made this project possible 🙏 Also, a big thank you to EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

How RDI2CluB implemented benchmarking in a transnational context during global pandemic and on-going travelling restrictions ? 🤔 By creating "Online Benchmark Experience" 🤩 Find out how: https://t.co/ofOSGaT56I #MadeWithInterreg #Biobord #Interreg #bioeconomy @InterregBSR

How RDI2CluB implemented benchmarking in a transnational context during global pandemic and on-going travelling restrictions ? 🤔 By creating "Online Benchmarking Experience", which consisted of four steps: 1. Video tour to Central Finland's bioeconomy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn82o_AlAWI&t=296s 2. Presentation of the regional innovation ecosystem 3. Thematic webinars with regional SMEs and RDI2CluB partners 4. Ongoing development on Open Biobord Forum Read more from our benchmark report: https://forum.biobord.eu/t/benchmarking-online/1779 #MadeWithInterreg #Biobord #Interreg #bioeconomy Interreg Baltic Sea Region EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

Operating Model 3.0 has been published! 🥳 The #Biobord Operating Model describes the potential of our network, the functionalities of the platform as well as the user profiles and service paths. Newest version can be found from Biobord: https://t.co/buWVdaXT0w #Interreg #BSR

Operating Model 3.0 has been published! 🥳 RDI2CluB-project has published today 28.09.2020 the third version of Biobord Operating Model. The Biobord Operating Model describes the potential of our network, the functionalities of the platform as well as the user profiles and service paths. Furthermore, the Operating Model provides practical guidance and tools for the uptake of the Biobord, creation of the service paths as well as continuous improvement of the forum community building. Operating Model, its guides and manuals can be found from Biobord forum, from Biobord User Support. https://forum.biobord.eu/t/biobord-operating-model/802/4 #MadewithInterreg #Interreg #biobord #bioeconomy #BSR

Time for results! 😎 Updated #impactreport with piloting #results can now be found from same address 🥳 https://t.co/Vp8Ap27Yvm Made by@AskKauko From #biobord, you may find further details of the piloting process: https://t.co/2iVzfMkNOO #MadeWithInterreg #interreg #BSR https://t.co/YuMZOzZ13R

In April 2020 we, RDI2CluB, published an impact report of our local pilot cases and their potential. Now it is time for results! 🤩 Updated impact report can be found from the same address and the report is made by AskKauko: https://www.impactreport.app/biobord/index.html?view=Home Also, RDI2CluB has published a report of whole piloting process and it can be found from Biobord-platform: https://bit.ly/3400FbI WAAKKU MOBILE APPLICATION 📱👩‍🌾🇫🇮 https://waakku.com 😐Rural populations in Finland are falling ➡️ Service and job opportunities decrease ➡️Makes life more difficult for farmers 🥳 Saarijärven yrityspalvelut (SSYP Kehitys Ltd.), part of the Biobord network, has created an app called Waakku that can help farmers to access services and workforce while creating job opportunities for local residents. ➡️Connecting farmers with the workers and experts they need. ➡️Matching rural service providers, farmers, and jobseekers. ➡️ Easier for businesses to provide their services to farmers AND service providers are able to work more efficiently by grouping tasks ➡️2 068€/year/farmer saved with joint procurements AND up to 6 808 kg reduction in CO2 emissions from saved trips from joint procurement of materials. GROUSE NETWORK 🦆💻🇳🇴 https://forum.biobord.eu/c/inn-centre-of-bioeconomy-forum/grouse-monitoring-network/45 🧐Rural land could be used more efficiently ➡️Sustainable management ➡️ More information is needed to ensure better management 🥳 Høgskolen i Innlandet - Forskning established an international network of leading scientist and key decision makers of the Northern Hemisphere to increase co-operation and research to support the sustainable management of wildlife populations. ➡️International discussion group on Biobord-platform ➡️development of methods for monitoring and managing wildlife populations that create ecological, economic, and social sustainability benefits ➡️The end goal is improved environmental, economic and social sustainability in rural areas. IMPROVED AIR QUALITY IN POLAND 👩‍🏫☁️🇵🇱 💆‍♀️Busko-Zdrój and Solec-Zdrój are spa towns where tourists come to enjoy the well-being services on offer and the way households are heated affects air quality ➡️tracing air quality ➡️knowledge sharing 🥳 Regionalne Centrum Naukowo-Technologiczne and Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship province started a project to monitor local air quality and use the data produced to encourage residents to switch to bio-based heating solutions. ➡️Better air quality ➡️Improve the local economy by demonstrating that Busko-Zdrój and Solec-Zdrój continue to be places that people can visit for health reasons. ➡️Busko-Zdrój and Solec-Zdrój can be at the forefront of promoting positive environmental change USING TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE ORGANIC FARMING IN LATVIA 📡🌼🇱🇻 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hQwILhRUlU&feature=youtu.be 🤔 Rural land is not being used efficiently enough. Also, Farmers in Latvia lack understanding of organic farming – including which crops to grow, how best to grow them, and their market potential. 🥳 Institute for Environmental Solutions has created a pilot project with the aim of studying organic farming to find out what works best in Latvia and then share this knowledge. Organically grown medicinal plants make economic sense for farmers ➡️Creating a data-based service to support farmers by developing and testing new technologies including drones, ground-based sensors, and machine learning methods for data analysis.➡️ Rapidly evaluate what works best for growing organic crops including medicinal and aromatic plants ➡️Demonstrate the most effective ways to grow organic medicinal and aromatic plants, starting in Latvia and then extending to other interested countries ➡️Potential economic value of medicinal and aromatic plants cultivation in Latvia is estimated to be 1,013,880,000 € ➡️Growing more high-value organic crops, can improve both environmental and economic sustainability for farmers. More details and information available in the impact report! #biobord #bioeconomy #BalticSeaRegion #sustainability #environmentalimpact #MadewithInterreg #Interreg Interreg Baltic Sea Region EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region Keski-Suomen liitto Saarijärvi Biotalouskampus JAMK University of Applied Sciences Høgskolen i Innlandet Innlandet fylkeskommune Næringsutvikling i Innlandet Tretorget Vidzemes plānošanas reģions RDI2CluB_Swietokrzyskie Stockholmi Keskkonnainstituudi Tallinna Keskus, SEI Tallinn

25 cases for #Bioeconomy #Innovation around the #BSR |24-25/25 | Vidzeme region, Latvia 🇱🇻 Development and management of the organic potato starch production chain and competence centre & Knowledge-driven bioeconomy innovation ecosystem development in the Vidzeme region, Latvia.

Our last two cases are from Latvia and great examples of COLLABORATE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE 🤝 25 cases for #Bioeconomy #Innovation around the #BSR |24-25/25 | Vidzeme region, Latvia 🇱🇻 Development and management of the organic potato starch production chain and competence centre & Knowledge-driven bioeconomy innovation ecosystem development in the Vidzeme region, Latvia. Development and management of the organic potato starch production chain and competence centre 🥔 Potato starch is used worldwide in the production of food, the manufacture of paper, pharmaceutical, textile and construction materials, and the global demand for organic potato starch has grown rapidly over the last 10 years. Alojas started the production of organic potato starch in 2008, and since 2013 the company is the second world's largest organic potato starch producer. The company strives to satisfy world market demand and, to do it, must have access to the raw material – organic potato, meeting certain quality requirements and delivered in volumes, satisfying company production targets. In order to ensure all of the abovementioned, the company has created a network by joining organic potato growers, breeders and researchers in one chain, and has established an organic potato starch competence centre, whose main objective is to promote knowledge based organic potato breeding and growth in Baltic states. More than 100 Latvian and Estonian farmers are growing and delivering organic potato annually to the enterprise. Knowledge-driven bioeconomy innovation ecosystem development in the Vidzeme region, Latvia. 👫 Natural resources are one of the key elements of the bioeconomy ecosystem in Vidzeme. The process of building an ecosystem, led by Vidzemes plānošanas reģions and Institute for Environmental Solutions, focuses on raising awareness and knowledge among stakeholders on how to manage and use these resources more wisely and sustainably, ensuring their availability and quality at the present and also for the needs of future generations. Building of the bioeconomy innovation ecosystem is based on a co-created regional action plan and a wide range of activities, such as awareness raising and education of various stakeholder groups on bioeconomy, networking for the development of new products and technologies, the development and internationalization of the Latvian Food Bioeconomy Cluster, the improvement of bioeconomy-related statistics and other. The Vidzeme region case represents institutional innovation aimed at creating favorable preconditions for those who deal with bioeconomy in the region, inter alias, promoting the improvement of policies, strategies and plans related to bioeconomy as well as the elaboration and implementation of tools for achieving set targets. Read more: https://ej.uz/25-cases-bioeconomy-BSR #alojastarkelsen #potatostarch #collaboration #protein #biotechnology #BalticSeaRegion #Interreg #bioeconomyecosystem #vidzemeplanningregion #instituteforenvironmentalsolutions #Innovationcases #vidzeme #Latvia Interreg Baltic Sea Region EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

COLLABORATE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE, two cases from Central Finland 🇫🇮 25 cases for #Bioeconomy #Innovation around the #BSR |22-23/25| Central Finland Farmer’s joint procurement ring & Joint venture in dairy farming 👩‍🌾🐮 Read full publication from here: https://t.co/r91FNcJUaY

COLLABORATE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE, two cases from Central Finland 🇫🇮 25 cases for #Bioeconomy #Innovation around the #BSR |22-23/25| Central Finland, Finland Farmer’s joint procurement ring & Joint venture in dairy farming 👩‍🌾🐮 Farmer’s joint procurement ring: The Koskenkylä Small Framers Association (Koskenkylän pienviljelijäyhdistys) has been running a joint procurement ring since 2003. It serves members in the joint purchase of goods and services, for example feed. Due to large volumes, vendors offer a good price, therefore farmers get goods and services for the most competitive price. Joint venture in dairy farming: HRV farm is one of the biggest dairy farms in Saarijärvi, Central Finland. The farm is a joint venture, owned by three business men that all have run farms before. Few years ago they realized that if they wish to succeed as entrepreneurs, they could achieve more by merging their farms into a joint venture. See more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONHYDJ9STR8&t=1s And read the full publication here: https://ej.uz/25-cases-bioeconomy-BSR Biotalouskampus Keski-Suomen liitto Saarijärven yrityspalvelut Interreg Baltic Sea Region EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region #Interreg #BalticSeaRegion #Innovationcases #bioeconomyecosystem

Last theme of the 25 cases for #Bioeconomy #Innovation around the #BSR -publication is COLLABORATE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE🤝 |20-21/25 | Inland Norway 🇳🇴 REKO – local food network & Inland – Värmland Successful crossborder cooperation@InterregNorge https://t.co/r91FNcJUaY

Last theme of the 25 cases for #Bioeconomy #Innovation around the #BSR -publication is COLLABORATE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE 🤝 Today we are presenting two cases from Inland Norway 🇳🇴 25 cases for Bioeconomy Innovation around the BSR | 20-21/25 REKO – local food network & Inland – Värmland Successful crossborder cooperation REKO – local food network by REKO NORGE Your local REKO ring entails an online food market for local food producers and conscious consumers. By participating in a REKO ring, local farmers and consumers can support each other, while contributing to reduced greenhouse gas emissions and sustaining biodiversity. The model is applicable to any community in #BalticSeaRegion or elsewhere. See more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0M_8yf6ivo Inland – Värmland Successful crossborder cooperation Interreg Sverge-Norway: Interreg.no In the border region between the Inland region in Norway and Värmland and Dalarna in Sweden the flow of labor, goods and services, used by the industry and business makes it like one region. The business routes started in the 16th century when logs from Norway were floated down the river of Trysilelva/Klaraelven to Karlstad in Sweden. The cooperation have been strengthen by the government in both countries thru various projects aiming at reducing cross-border obstacles and strengthening cooperation. See more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwnCfyXJkFI&feature=youtu.be Read the whole publication from here: https://ej.uz/25-cases-bioeconomy-BSR #rekonorge #Innovationcases #bioeconomyecosystem #Biobord #BSR #Interreg Høgskolen i Innlandet - Forskning Næringsutvikling i Innlandet Interreg Baltic Sea Region EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region Tretorget