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Do you have a team of startups, research groups, innovators and/ or students? Or are you a student or researcher willing to join?

BioBoosters bioeconomy business accelerator and the network are organizing 5 innovation competitions – Hackathons – to solve circularity and sustainability challenges for leading bioeconomy companies around the Baltic Sea Region. Winning teams – SMEs, startups, research groups, innovators and students – are offered an opportunity to start a commercial co-operation or joint piloting of their solution idea. Teams are attracted via open call and the challenge provider company will select the teams with most interesting ideas to join the Hackathon process. In the Hackathon, the teams will work on their idea with the help of mentors and the experts of the challenge provider company to design a solution & co-operation proposal for the challenge provider. Hackathon is a meeting place that sparks co-operation between business and research. 

The teams selected to the BioBoosters hackathons will get a compensation for their travel costs to attend the Hackathon days. However, online participation is also possible. 

Open calls:

FibenolHackathon – Wood to Food

Fibenol invites you to find new high value applications for valorising cellulosic sugars, lignin and specialty cellulose for food or feed production. Hackathon is organized by Estonian University of Life Sciences in co-operation with BioBoosters by Jamk and the BioBoosters network. Call closes on March 20, 2024.

Access the Fibenol Hackathon Call information: 

Video invitation:

VõisteHackathon – Mining the Green Gold from the Greenhouse Biomass

Võiste Greenhouse, the largest tomato producer in Estonia, is looking for solutions how to extract more value from greenhouse products and residual flows whilst producing in a cleaner way. Hackathon is organized by Pärnu County Development Center in co-operation with BioBoosters by Jamk and the BioBoosters network. Call closes on March 22, 2024.

Access the Võiste Hackathon Call information 

Video invite:

NandoHackathon – Reducing Overfertilization by Innovative Solutions

Nando seeks to tackle overfertilization in European agriculture which poses a significant threat to environmental and agricultural sustainability by smart technologies and models for precision farming and fertilization. Hackathon is organized by Sunrise Tech Park, Lithuania, in co-operation with BioBoosters by Jamk and the BioBoosters network. Call closes on March 21, 2024.

Access the Nando Hackathon Call information: 

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Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ -students may get study credits from -course by participating to this event and writing a learning diary. Please check Sisu and contact Daria Hakola daria.d.hakola@jyu.fi for further details.