Smartup Accelerator brings together innovation actors in consumer cleantech field around the Baltic Sea to make the region a forerunner in sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship. The collaboration project of seven Baltic Sea Region countries – Latvia, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Sweden, Russia and Finland – is taking place throughout 2017-2020 and launches several national and international startup events, competitions, bootcamps and provides testbeds around the themes of consumer cleantech and smart innovations.

Do you have a business idea you would like to try out? Does it have to do with for example air quality, nutrient recycling, greywater treatment, sustainable consumption, open data or data modelling? We are looking for cleantech and circular economy teams to develop and experiment solutions with the city of Helsinki and its inhabitants. Experimentation takes place through the open innovation platform TryOut, which aims to enable business model testing in the city together with people.

 Bees & Trees project maps the possibilities for co-operation between large companies and start ups. The aim is to establish strategic partnerships that mobilize cleantech-related ideas more broadly. Also new forms of facilitated co-operation are experimented. Large companies involved include Coor Service Management, Granlund, S-Group and Bonava.

Do you have a business idea with a potential to decrease greenhouse emissions radically? Have you been thinking about solutions for smart cities, urban mobility and future food? Do you know some of the most promising upcoming names in the Finnish cleantech field? 

Demos Helsinki, Aalto University, Environment Centre of City of Helsinki,  and Climate-KIC are bringing the ClimateLaunchpad competition to Finland also in 2016. We are looking for teams in the beginning of their entrepreneurial path with energy-saving, emission-decreasing innovations or solutions, that will make sustainable decisions more attractive to consumers.