Green Net Finland, a Finnish partner of the GreenTech 2.0 project consortium, hosted 3-day visit in Helsinki-Uusimaa region from May 30th to June 1st 2023 a group of companies. The number of VOs was 8, represented by 10 people. Visitors were from four greentech clusters from Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden and Poland. The organizations were: Griddiagnoze, LightMirror UAB, Codesis, Pärnu Innovation Center Kobar, Reco Fibre, Tallinn Creative Incubator, WAJM SP and XRental.

During the ClusterXChange organizations visited Green Net Finland, Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council and Vantaa Energy on the first day of the visit. During the meeting we heard interesting presentations by Regional Council, CLIC Innovation and Haaga-Helia University of Applied Science about the Helsinki-Uusimaa Circular Valley. The programme of the third day included visits to Finnish Sykli Environmental College, HSY Vantaa Sorting Station and Novago Business Development at Lohja.

One of the participants was Dimitri Ionescu from LightMirror.
Why did you decide to participate in the program?
I am interested in construction sector and interested in WCEF event.

What has been the most valuable so far? What are your further expectations of participating in the ClusterXChange program?
“The trip was very beneficial, enabling us to connect with numerous SMEs in our host's Cluster Network. We also initiated dialogues that could foster future partnerships. Notably, we gained insights into the green sector and Finland's corporate culture, enhancing our understanding of circular economy practices. The trip led to multiple collaboration opportunities, presenting an enhanced view of the VO's home market operation, and broadening our perspective on international business strategies. It allowed us to establish valuable business contacts for our company and cluster partners, fostering an environment for growth and synergy. The ClusterXchange trip was a huge success. It mixed learning, meeting new people, and a focus on sustainability. We also had important B2B meetings.”, Says Dimitri.
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The project GreenTech 2.0 empowers green tech clusters to support SMEs in exploiting growth opportunities, service innovation, resource-efficient solutions, market traction, finding investments and internationalization. It is accompanied by strategic partnering between clusters and specialized eco-systems and cities resulting in a new, joint GreenTech Services 2.0 portfolio for participating clusters, including the implementation of the ClusterXchange Programme.
Green Net Finland is a cleantech cluster that brings together the expertise and resources of Finnish cleantech companies, scientific and educational institutions and public authorities. Green Net Finland is a registered Bronze label cluster at the European Cluster Collaboration platform.