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.

On 9 May we turned the spotlight on Nordic high growth companies and their success stories with the second edition of Nordic Scaleup Awards.

The struggle for dominance in outer space has traditionally been a race between major powers. While others competed to be the first to explore new planets, the Nordic countries needed satellites to fulfill their desire to watch each other's TV broadcasts.

Nordic Innovation supports a new initiative investigating the innovation potential in data from Nordic patient records to solve healthcare challenges. The project will run from 1.4.2023 - 1.10.2025.

A new study highlights the need to establish a Nordic Scaleup Centre to increase the knowledge base around scaleups. The Nordic Scaleup Centre should also provide policy recommendations and build collaboration among stakeholders.

This year Nordic Innovation is co-hosting the World Circular Economy Forum together with the Finnish Innovation fund Sitra. We are looking forward to 4 days of circular economy discussions and insight. Take a look at our highlight summary to see what is on the Nordics agenda for WCEF 2023.