The seven projects fall under the two programs Innovative Solutions for 2030 and Nordic Forward: Resilience and Competitiveness for 2050. The projects cover more than 45 partners from Nordic industry, academia and public sector organisations.
The seven projects are:
Circular Value Chains for Concrete Slab Reuse in the Nordic Region - RE:SLAB Nordic
The partners are: Sirkulær Ressurssentral AS, circrete, Tcherning, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, FORCE Technology
Scaling Circular Car Parts in Nordic Insurance – SCAPINI
The partners are: RISE, Circular Norway, Provice, If AB, Autocirc AB, Fremtind, Bil1Din, Jönköpings bildemontering AB, CAB-Plan, MRF Motorbranschens Riksförbund, Frende, Pohjola, Batteriretur
Zero-Waste Nordic Seaweed Value Chain - ZEN-SEA
The partners are: Verdemar AS, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Ocean Rainforest, Lerøy Seafood AS, PurSea AS, Under Ytan AB, Woamy Oy, Taramar Seeds ehf, byArctic AS
Nordic Aviation Resilience -NAR
The partners are: Sustainable Autonomous Mobility Systems, Finnavia, Yeti Move, RISE, GIM Robotics, Swedavia, Boldyn, Avinor
Nordic Quantum Coordination and Pathways
The partners are: SINTEF, Aalto University, Danish Quantum Community, Chalmers INd
Space Nordic
The partners are: Space Denmark, Tampere University, Uppsala Innovation Centre, Innovatum, Norwegian Space Cluster (NSC), University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
Nordic AM Alliance - NAMA
The partners are: DIMECC Ltd, RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden, Norwegian Additive Manufacturing Cluster, Danish AM Hub
““These projects all address challenges targeted by our innovation programs. The projects cover areas such as enabling technologies, mature green solutions, circularity, and value chain collaboration. These innovation areas are key to accelerating the green transition and strengthening long-term competitiveness and resilience in the Nordic region.”
– Sindre Bornstein, CEO of Nordic Innovation.
The Call for Project Proposals was the second step in a two-step call method introduced in 2025 with the aim of stimulating the development of new project ideas and fostering the creation of Nordic project consortia. The first step in the two-step call method was a pre-call launched in spring 2025. Nordic Innovation received 123 applications under the pre-call, and 20 projects were selected for funding of NOK 200.000 each.
The second step in the two-step call process was launched in autumn 2025. The total funding available was NOK 30.000.000 and limited to 6.000.000 per project.
Background
In 2025, Nordic Innovation launched new innovation programs for the years 2025-2027. As a part of this launch, a new call process was introduced to gather ideas and input for shaping two of the three programs: Innovative Solutions for 2030 and Nordic Forward: Resilience and Competitiveness for 2050.
