30 May to 2 June Nordic Innovation co-hosted the World Circular Economy Forum, together with the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra. The theme of this year’s event was circular solutions for nature and the economy. With around 1800 participants on site in Helsinki and more than 6000 participants online from all around the world the event was a success.

Three intense days in Lisbon show that the Nordic region is on the right track, but we still face significant challenges in the mobility sector. A fragmented sector and data sharing pose the biggest obstacles to smart connectivity in the Nordics.

The Supplier will among other facilitate expansion of existing Nordic pilot projects where data sharing has been driving circular business value.

A new study reveals that tender requirements, long procurement processes and lack of mutual knowledge and common understanding are among the challenges faced by startups in collaborating with the public sector.

The Nordic Ethical AI Expert group will develop a vision and a roadmap on how the Nordic region will become leading in ethical AI.

The seventh World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF) shows how to create a new economy, businesses and jobs, by leveraging circular solutions to solve the planetary crises.

The Catalyst project, which aims to position younger employees and students as the driving force in the transition to a circular economy, ran from 2020 until autumn 2022.

Nordic Innovation has commissioned Accenture and Silo AI to coordinate a project for mobilizing the Nordic ecosystem for ethical AI and responsible use of data.

As a result of the Ocean Biomass call Nordic Innovation has signed contract with Lava Seaweed, from Iceland, as main partner to carry out the CircleFeed project. Nordic Innovation received a total of four bids for the call. The CircleFeed project will demonstrate proof-of-concept for an innovative seaweed-based feed mix that will reduce both the total carbon footprint of feed protein production and enteric methane emission from dairy cattle. The goal is to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the total supply chain related to dairy cattle by more than 30%.

From 44 nominations last year to 140 nominations this year the interest for highlighting scaleups is growing. The Icelandic company Kerecis won the award and the companies Einride, Gelato and IQM got special recognitions.