The Hoop Project

The HOOP Project will help to unlock bio-based investments and deploy local bio economies in Europe through a systemic and cross-cutting approach. It will offer Project Development Assistance (PDA) to a group of 8 lighthouse cities and city clusters – to build the technical, economic, financial and legal expertise needed to develop concrete investments to valorize OFMSW (Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste) or UWWS (Urban Wastewater Sludge) with the aim of obtaining safe and sustainable bio-based products

Tekstiilien sivuvirta -project

Tekstiilien sivuvirta (Textile side stream) project helps to develop companies’ transition to a circular economy: the reuse and retention of side stream and discarded textiles and the prevention of textile waste in the entire value chain.

The goal of the project is to find out how the side stream and waste textiles from companies’ and consumers’ textiles could be used regionally.

FoodLoops

The project FoodLoops establishes cooperation among schools, caterers (SMEs), farmers, and professionals in a circular economy to improve biowaste separation at source, prevent excessive food waste and reuse it as organic compost.

In addition to Kuopio, the project is also be implemented in Gdansk (Poland) and Vilnius (Lithuania).

Kokoeko-seminars

Kokoeko-seminars bring together experts from the waste and recycling industry related to current topics in the industry. The aim of the seminars is to increase the awareness of industry operators about the recent changes in the waste management and recycling sector and the challenges that comes with them, as well as new operating models, promoting of sustainable development and the circular economy. The target group of the events are e.g. companies, municipalities, authorities, businesses and teaching and research organizations operating in the waste management and recycling sector.

The aim of the events is also to increase the interaction between companies and municipalities by offering the opportunity to network. Kokoeko-seminars are held approximately every year.

Bio and Circular Cluster

The Bio and Circular Cluster North Savo supports the growth of companies in the sector by bringing together the best implementers and services for the development of technology, products and services and business.

We progress sustainable development by reconciling material needs and flows, developing high-grade products and exploring alternative biomaterials.