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 Marta Sokolowska-Sluszniak from Reco Fibre.
“Why did you decide to participate in the program?
I am interested in Textile waste recycling practices and would like to see Waste to energy plant and a sorting station.
What has been the most valuable so far?
What I liked the most in our exchange is how we can wider our thinking and get to some reflections on how to do on daily basis”, says Marta Sokołowska-Słuszniak from Reco Fibre company from Poznan Science and Technology park Waste-Klaster from Poland.
What are your further expectations of participating in the ClusterXChange program?
I am hoping for further meetings and the materials to be shared between the participants.

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.