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["NPA0100021","Green energy technologies for tourism growth.","This project GLOW\n\n2.0 will apply a Green Business Model to pilot and learn how to develop sustainability methodologies in SMEs with a focus on companies and social enterprises serving the Dark Nights Tourism Economy. It thus will enhance sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation, which will involve them in productive investments.\n\nThe project will support enterprises and public organisations in developing tourism flow during the dark winter months by enabling the application of immersive technologies at an enterprise level and developing common use applications presenting the night sky (developed during the project). These will be integrated into existing tourism strategies and offers on natural and cultural heritage to develop a marketing platform, which will enable the enterprises to reach beyond their existing markets. These will enable the enterprises to develop their own green business models. Green business can grow economically and reduce use of resources. The project will integrate techniques for green business with immersive technologies for maximum impact. \n\nA bridging study has involved enterprises, tourism and local authorities in workshops to determine their priorities and what they can absorb, which has determined the feasibility of the project. There are three main aspects: enhancing the capacity of SMEs, and in delivery, marketing and promotion of a tourism offer including dark skies; technology development of a virtual planetarium, 360 degree photography and star gazing applications, to be shared and adapted across the region; and validation and promotion of Dark Skies tourism as a regional offer across the NPA area, which also serves as means of safeguarding natural assets. \n\nThe three aspects are mutually supporting. Enterprises gain technical and business capacity. Regions enhance their overall tourism offer and this is disseminated across the NPA.","2022-12-01","2025-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","024 Advanced support services for SMEs and groups of SMEs (including management, marketing and design services)","N",1798328.64,"Other, ERDF",888319.25,65,"The first period was mostly about partners getting to know each other, and discussing plans and timelines to focus and start activities. The visit in Joensuu and the meeting of project partners was fruitful and made the next steps clearer. The regular partner meetings in Teams have been very important for following and engaging on project activities development. \n\nTo make GLOW2.0 -project known in our areas and attract target groups to the project has meant a lot of phone calls, emails, several meetings, and arranging of events. Communication e.g. via website and social media was also done to create awareness about the project and its objectives. The survey made in the spring time gave a good reason to contact regional tourist organizations and tell them more about GLOW2.0 as well as why we are so interested in dark sky and the technology connected to it. It has been a pleasure to notice that there are several SMEs and other target groups who are interested in the dark sky project themes and product development. Almost 100 persons answered to our survey and showed interest in the project activities.\n\nDuring this period partners have visited and participated in workshops/ events/ discussions etc. where we collected new ideas for dark sky development, not only for winter time, but starting already in September and October. There is interest for dark sky products and services and also themes relating to protecting the dark sky. The project partners have for example presented the project themes and objectives in events and workshops. Some have joined events to gain more understanding and benchmark best practices to bring to the project. All deliverables promised for period 1 were also realised. The activities carried out during the first period show that there is a great potential for development and productizing dark skies, but the project needs more time to find and meet more potential SME's and other stakeholders also during period 2 while finalisation of the capacity building programme continues.  \n\nGLOW2.0 has also collaborated with other projects. In Finland GLOW2.0 collaborated with Kaavi municipality project HAMA that focus on Dark Sky concept in sustainable tourism development. HAMA invited GLOW2.0 to give a presentation on best practice examples in dark sky tourism. In Lapland, GLOW2.0 collaborated with WYNE-project by joining in the workshop and discussions. The project has also collaborated with a project working on a similar dark sky related project (Erasmus funded). GLOW2.0 has been in close contact with the project on several issues regarding challenges and opportunities, and received materials (ecotourism guide) from the project via Icelandic partner.\n\nThe overall project management went smoothly. The project Lead Partner (LP) joined the NPA national event in Kajaani (10.-11.10.2023), and NPA conference and LP seminar in Skellefteå, Sweden (8.-9.11.2023), and shared necessary information with partners afterwards. \n\nA total of 4 online partner meetings (15.6, 9.8, 25.10, 22.11) have been held during this reporting period except for July (vacation period). 1 physical meeting has also been held during this reporting period (12.-13.9.2023) in Belmullet - Mayo region, country Ireland.\n\nRegarding WP activities, Karelia and SSNV were leads for WP1 and have therefore been in-charge of activity A1.2 (develop capacity building materials) due in P2. All partners contributed to content development during discussion meetings. Karelia designed the modules based on the needs that came up during P1 (D1.1.1), partners and associated partners/ stakeholders’ comments. The deliverable is finalised as namely D.1.2.1. GLOW2.0 Capacity Building Program Modules. Ireland partners held workshop \"Building a Sustainable Tourism Business\" (activity A1.3), and participated Newport & Connemara Astronomy Club's discussions.\n\nWP2 was led by UiT with co-leads UnaG/Udaras and PLAKY. UiT was in-charge of design and development of the VP; virtual planetarium (activity A2.2). All partners joined development discussions during various phases of implementation. Udaras was in-charge of liasing with co-leads and LP, and organising the Ireland Learning Journey event (activity A2.4) that included immersive demo-testing session (activity A2.2) for partners and stakeholders brought along (Sept 2023). All partners voiced wishes, commented on the programme. Partners also worked in own regions to recruit stakeholders to join the learning journey, worked on own and own stakeholders’ travel plans, and the joining of learning journey event (A2.4). Udaras and PLAKY also carried out other activities that feed to this WP. Udaras offered critical insights for technologies development (WP2) from British Association of Planetaria Conference & OM Dark Sky Park & Observatory learnings. PLAKY organized Tähtelä Dark Evening together with associated partner Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory (activity A2.6). UiT finalised deliverable D2.2.1 Demo-version of the immersive technology.\n\nUdaras was in charge of WP3, activity A3.2 due this period. Udaras was responsible for survey drafting and data analysis. WestBIC and Karelia UAS helped through some stages. All partners took part in data collection and gathering from their various regions, and providing these for analysis to Udaras and WestBIC. Udaras and Karelia UAS thereafter drafted the deliverable. Partners gave comments to the document after which the deliverable was finalised. The deliverable is namely D3.2.1 Review paper indicating the current status of strategies. Udaras also hosted a Regional Workshop for SMEs in developing a sustainable Dark Sky Tourism Business (activity A3.3).\n\nDuring the physical partner meeting, all partners joined discussions on ways to feasibly realise the rest of the project activities, for example project WP activities (A2.5, A2.6, A3.3) hand-in-hand with capacity building (A1.3), and approach deliverables (D.2.4.2, D.2.4.3, D3.4.1). \n\nGLOW2.0 project has also engaged target groups with communication actions via news outlet, project website, during joint and regional meetings and events, and via SOME pages of the project. All partners have also worked on P1 partner reporting actions.\n\nEven though the Learning Journeys (A2.4) activity is promised until end of P3, based on the needs of stakeholders (D1.1.1, P1) and tourism seasons variations in participating countries, partners considered it very important to request the NPA change of delivery period to P5 so as to allow partners get best learning outcomes from learning journeys that enhance also A2.3, D.2.4.2. The aim is to combine these with physical partner meetings for max. impact.\n\nPartner cooperation and project activities intensified during this period 3. Karelia UAS (as LP) continued overlooking the overall project coordination for GLOW2.0. All partners worked with P2 partner reports and LP worked on joint project reporting and transfer of funds to partners. Monthly online partner meetings (4 in total: 13.12, 10.1, 10.4, 8.5) and 1 physical meeting (6.2.2024, Narvik, Norway) combined with Learning Journey (LJ) were held by the consortium. Partners also jointly worked on horizontal principles document for GLOW2.0 project.\n\nWP1 activities and related communication actions in P3 focused mainly on the implementation of capacity building programme (CBP) based on the needs of target groups in own regions (A1.3), using the plans developed during P1 (D1.2.1). These were realised in all participating regions, but methods of implementation were different, considering local operating environments and interest themes for target groups/regions. Among other, regional workshops, thematic events, film session, regional webinars and events were organised. We also implemented joint activities (Learning Journey, Virtual Planetarium testing, joint webinar). Karelia UAS (WP lead) additionally tested CBP themes with tourism students as part of ideation sessions (A1.4), and SSNV (other WP co-lead) discussed with Iceland associated partner the possibilities of bringing some GLOW2.0 issues among the students of Rural tourism at Hólar university. The actions advance the development of activity A1.4, and WP output O1.1.\n\nWP2 during this period focused on activities A2.3, A2.4, A2.5 and A2.6. For A2.3, all partners joined online discussions and demonstration of Virtual Planetarium (VP) progress, also testing onsite in Norway the VP during our meeting combined with Learning Journey (A2.4) in Narvik, where we also got the opportunity to visit UiT’s immersive lab to map possibilities for further development. UiT continued with VP/VR while Udaras carried out extensive research. As WP leads, Udaras held meetings with UiT to discuss the storytelling element of the VR experience. Udaras conducted research on storytellers and held meetings with sector company to gain insights into creating a more interactive experience, and Ireland team visiting immersive Viking Museum in Norway to benchmark possibilities. Experiencing it from a tourist's perspective was highly beneficial as it gave the opportunity to evaluate and apply the insights to our project's development from digital tourism perspective. After further discussions btw WP leads, and feedback from partners, it was decided best to incorporate a combination of story, music, and voice-over to enhance the background of our VR experience. Karelia also held discussions with UnaG/ Udaras about immersive light pollution camera intended for Ireland. \n\nIn A2.4, UiT with assistance from LP-Karelia, worked on the LJ programme to Narvik, discussing with partners too. UiT took care of arrangements e.g. venues, site visits, seminar. Partners commented on plans, took care of own travel plans, and joined the LJ (6.-7.2.2024; Narvik, Norway) that included immersive testing, visit of UiT immersive lab, and seminar session with Norwegian stakeholders. Karelia and Udaras presented added value of darkness in service design on the seminar day. Partners additionally implemented the capacity building themes/ tested the jointly developed series of modules (D1.2.1) in own regions engaging target groups via one-on-one sessions, workshops and events A2.5 (Immersive Technology Solutions), A2.6 (service design methodologies), and jointly implemented webinar event covering various themes. \n\nRegarding WP3, some partners (Karelia, SSNV, Udaras) engaged enterprises in regions on ways dark skies tourism can be stimulated (A3.3). Ireland partners worked on a collaboration btw Mayo County Council and GLOW2.0 to be on the development committee of Ireland's first light pollution policy to be delivered under the Mayo Climate Action Plan. This policy is to be completed by January 2025. Among other, deliverable A3.2.1 was shared during Dublin workshop on light pollution. Udaras also worked on Climate Control Action Plan for Light Pollution with Mayo County Council, collaborating also with a local nonprofit club on a light pollution assessment in conjunction with their refurbishment of all public lighting. An animation video and series of podcasts – Glimpses of Darkness were also produced by GLOW2.0 (A3.4).\n\nThe fully functional NPA miniwebsite helped intensify communication and dissemination during this P3 which showed also in the level of target groups participation in events. Apart from miniweb, partners’ websites and SOME sites, GLOW was also featured in a journal (Finland), in Dark Sky Ireland Newsletter (Ireland). The capacity building events and joint webinar were rather successful with comments of gratitude and interests/ request by target groups for similar events (ref: reports, survey feedback). \nAll partners have, during this reporting period 4, been actively engaged in own regions with series of activities and events aimed at supporting the development and adaptation of innovative technologies and service design methodologies for the Dark Sky Tourism economy (A1.4, A2.3, A2.5, A2.6, A3.3). Partners have also, in joint collaboration realised the learning journey and joint hybrid seminar for stakeholders in Iceland during Oct 2024 giving stakeholders from our regions possibility to share knowledge, learn from one another and network for tourism and regional development. In addition, partners took part in each others regional events e.g. joining remotely, to share experiences and best practices, communicate GLOW outputs and results, engage with other  regions' stakeholders, and learn from one another. \n\nFor example, PLAKY partner (Lapland) joined Karelia's regional workshop in Koli in August 2024 (North Karelia), while Lapland's associated partner SGO was a speaker at the event.  Karelia (Finland) and Udaras (Iceland) partners joined the Norwegian regional workshop in September to present Dark Sky case study examples, good practices and business model examples. Udaras and WestBIC worked together to realise their regional workshop in Ireland. Karelia joined PLAKY partner's organised workshop in August 2024. All partners and their stakeholders joined the hybrid seminar with Icelandic industry in October 2024 that was combined with learning journey to Blönduós, Iceland. Ireland partner's associated partner Mayo Dark Sky Park was secured as a speaker and presented during the hybrid seminar in Iceland in Oct 2024. These efforts included collaborative discussions, technology testing, stakeholder engagements, and the promotion of immersive technologies and service design approaches. Key highlights of contributions during this P4 were:\n\n-Collaborative Engagements: discussions, demonstrations, and testing sessions, including those involving the Virtual Planetarium and storytelling frameworks, as well as on-site testing and virtual interactions with stakeholders and associated partners.\n\n-Learning Journeys: Iceland Learning Journey through technology testing, stakeholder coordination, logistical planning, and active participation in workshops and discussions. Supporting delivery of learning materials and facilitating stakeholder activities to refine the programme effectively.\n\n-Stakeholder Integration: Stakeholder presentations and fostered collaboration with partners and associated partners, resulting in valuable insights and follow-up discussions on framework delivery and module development.\n\n-Technology Roll-Out and Feedback: Promoting the use of immersive technologies (VR, 360° videos) through workshops and events, gathering feedback to tailor these solutions for SMEs within the Dark Sky Tourism economy. This included hosting hands-on demonstrations, such as the Service Design Workshops, immersive technologies testing (Finland, Norway), Mobile Planetarium (Finland, Ireland), and 360° videos (Finland). In addition, all partners from participating countries and stakeholders joined the learning journey Iceland, where different interactive, sensory and immersive experiences used in tourism offers were showcased and experienced to allow reflection on own regions and possibilities: Perlan museum, Flyover, 1238 Virtual Reality Museum.\n\n-Service Design Methodologies: Adopting and adapting service design approaches to help SMEs develop innovative services and marketing strategies. Organising capacity-building workshops and regional events to equip SMEs with tools and knowledge for integrating immersive technologies into their business offerings and mentoring sessions.\n\n-Marketing Development: Promoting and communicating the results of SME engagements, showcasing opportunities for enhancing their competitiveness through innovative solutions.\n","Narvik, Galway, -, Sodankylä, Joensuu","NO, IE, IS, FI",{"$nulls":5},6]
["NPA0200058","Value chain analyses of transdisciplinary “KET-enabled” makerspaces","The “Green Deal” challenges academia and SMES in European regions to transform economies by innovation. This once-in- -a-generation challenge requires new innovative capacities. Remote NPA regions requires dedicated spaces for making objects – which we describe as makerspaces. Makerspaces allow multidisciplinary concepts to be investigated using digital tools in a laboratory environment. Providing access to these tools inspires the next generation to scale concepts in future production environments. The competitiveness realized by such makerspaces depend on the deployment of disruptive tools based on key enabling technologies (KET-enabled makerspaces). \n\nThe ability to KETs (eg. advanced materials, printed electronics, photonics, advanced manufacturing /robotics, connectivity, & artificial intelligence) presents an opportunity for resource-efficient innovation which can increasingly inspire young people to improve the competitiveness of SMEs across the NPA region.\n\nThe objective of this project is to understand how a broad constituency of stakeholders across the NPA region can contribute to, and apply, KET-enabled makerspaces to contribute to the innovation capacity of region.\n\nThe project will apply a novel value chain analysis methodology to identify how KET-enabled makerspaces can best meet the expectations of regional stakeholders. The application of this tool by technologists is important. The value chain analysis will identify the potential for inter-regional stakeholder engagement, technology readiness of KET-enabled makerspace tools, the innovation potential of specific applications which resonates with the strengths or assets of the NPA. \n\nThe main output of the project will be a heat map of activities in the form of a transnational value chain. This output, achieved in 12 months, will assist each partner to identify transnational actions and relevant to future key stakeholders which will serve as inputs to a full NPA inter-regional project.","2022-12-01","2023-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","028 Technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and higher education sector","N",99996.97,"ERDF",44998.56,65,"Project has undertaken a very thorough review of KET-enabled makerspaces in the NPA region. The project was greatly facilitated by three different Universities. The project followed the project plan closely. \n\nMakerspaces are considered important for fostering a manufacturing ethos. They provide opportunities for remote communities, schools, higher educational institutes,  and industries to make prototypes. Having this resource increases the potential for innovation. The emergence of new digital manufacturing tools offers a new potential for makerspaces in terms of scaling production of prototypes towards parts. This is an exciting opportunity we investigated in this preparatory project.\n\nOur approach was rigorous. We built an extensive database of stakeholders both in and outside the NPA region. We used this resource to set the agenda for Deliverables 1.1.1 through to D1.9.1. The depth of this analysis has delayed our final completion of deliverables D1.10.1 and D1.11.1 but we remain committed as a consortium to achieve this aim.  \n\nThe main findings are: \n\n1. There are Makerspaces / Fablab activities in every area of the NPA region. This renders our project relevant to many stakeholders. \n\n2. Many Makerspaces have an educational objective. Makerspaces are used right throughout the educational cycle from children through to adults. The shortage of proficient maker scientists and engineers beholds us to further develop this  human resource value chain for NPA region. \n\n3. In remote areas of the NPA, the  Makerspaces claim to serve two purposes;  education and innovation.  While many Makerspaces and FabLabs attain an innovative potential through being very creative, there is an opportunity to further support these centres with greater technology, know-how and encouragement.  \n\n4. A comparison of technologies in Makerspaces located in the NPA Universities suggest that they are not significantly different to those facilities that are contained in Schools. While the expertise of more experienced users may be superior, efforts are required to incorporate new facilities and greater ambition for their use in Universities. This is central theme is running through our project. \n\n5. A review of Makerspaces in regions, beyond the NPA, showed much greater technical resources available in those Makerspaces in Universities in the USA and in parts of Sweden. Similarly the operational philosophy of these larger makerspaces was also considered an important differentiator. We propose absorbing aspects of this best practice to be central to our project. \n\n\n6. The presence of Key Enabling Technologies is very strong in the research activities at Higher Educational Institutes, across the NPA, but KETs do not appear to percolate through to Makerspaces at Universities. A simple step of including an electronic functionality for prototyping activities could address this position in a full project. \n\n7. There is scope for sharing different perspectives on Makerspaces across second level and third level educational activities. Accredited academic training linked to Makerspaces may lead to greater impact. There are opportunities to share approaches transnationally in the NPA Region. There is also opportunities to celebrate Makerspace achievements transnationally. \n\n\n8.  Our stakeholder database was both a burden and resource for this project. The analysis of the stakeholders frequently highlighted the importance of Makerspaces. At the end of this review we believe, there is an opportunity to stimulate new start-ups by providing access to Advanced Makerspaces. We propose to target incubators or accelerators for this purpose. \n\nImplementation \n\nPeriod 1 was an exploratory phase. Time was spent strategically positioning the project. \n\nPeriod 2 consisted of analysing the NPA region using the Smart Specialisation Platform (D1.1.1). Period two enabled a review of potential stakeholders to be completed (D1.2.1). This included a review of clusters, Makerspaces, and industrial networks and clusters in comprehensive database. A heat map was generated from this resource for Makerspaces, Clusters and Higher Educational Institutes in the NPA  (D1.3.1). This was interpreted in terms of Technology Readiness Levels (D1.5.1), Innovation Potential (D1.6.1), and Scalability of the technology (D.1.7.1). An analysis of the results followed (D.1.8.1)\n\n\nThe project outcomes focus on:\n1. The educational role for Makerspaces in transforming the NPA region; providing people with the skills to evolve digital manufacturing across all areas in the NPA region. \n2. The potential to combine makerspace tools to create remote scalable \"cottage-based\" factories of the future needs further consideration. \n\nBoth of these aims are important for preparing for digitalisation and carbon neutral manufacturing by 2050. \n\n","Reykjavik, KOKKOLA, Galway","IS, FI, IE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0200063","Building Resilient And Innovative Networks among rural communities","This is a feasibility and scoping study for a network digital hubs and support services, to enable communities and enterprises to benefit from digital technologies and applications, which deal with climate change. The applications focus on those supporting the Green Business Model and the Circular Economy. The aim is to stimulate local digital provision that is networked transnationally. Transnationality is essential for reasons of scale, expertise, and range of application.\n\nA resulting project should share expertise and assist enterprises in agriculture, fisheries, forestry, tourism and other areas to develop their businesses, reducing environmental impact and maintaining economic sustainability. The hubs will also support community skills and services in promoting a circular economy.\n\nThe feasibility study will map digital service provision and expertise in the partnership areas and also the needs of enterprises and community organisations. The original model for analysis encompasses stage 1 technologies (including Internet, Geographic Information System, Mobile Phones, Databases), stage 2 technologies (including Social Media, Apps, Smartphones, and Cloud Computing) and stage 3 technologies(includingArtificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Smart Systems; Virtual and Mixed Reality). The relevance of these to the Circular Economy and Green Business Models will analysed.\n\nThe analysis will map digital applications to community and enterprise needs and will determine a plan for service development among the hubs. Applications to energy will receive special attention.\n\nA community model is chosen as this the optimum way of disseminating awareness and expertise in the regions and of gaining critical mass for added value. The network aims to include mutual reinforcement of skills, links to other bodies and a set of priorities for development, linked to social and economic impacts in terms of sustainability. This project is to determine its structure.","2022-12-01","2023-05-31","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.2. Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","018 IT services and applications for digital skills and digital inclusion","N",49994.22,"ERDF",25930.93,65,"The purpose of the preparatory project was to gather information and analyse it to form the basis of a full project. The partners set out to map digital applications to community and enterprise needs in the participating regions and to determine a plan for service development. The partners responded to the comments on the application, which indicated the need to select relevant commercial sectors and technologies and avoid the risk of being overambitious.\n\nIn their reviews, some partners indicated that digital services may be provided to entities in the region by digital suppliers located elsewhere and a new project would need to take account of this. \n\nAs the declared focus was on digital technology applications supporting the Green Business Model and the Circular Economy, which can benefit enterprises and communities, the project developed an approach to focus on key sectors and summarise provision, needs and gaps in those sectors. A review of  sectors aimed to focus on key points that can changed. This followed the 80:20 rule, in focusing on a few points (20%) which can deliver large (80%) green benefits. The aims was to realise a technology – sector link.  However, it was recognised that priority sectors differed among the different regions and so the aim was to determine technologies that are adaptable to a range of sectors can vary among the partnership.\n\nTourism is a sector common to all the partners and it was proposed that this was the starting point. Partners  undertake a review of tourism provision in their regions on the basis of existing knowledge, publications and contacts. \n\nThis led to a focus on the techniques and technologies of  Storymaps, which could be applied to all the regions involved, which would have common themes and criteria. It would also have enabled the creation of an overall story map covering all the project area, indicating differences, similarities and links. This map would indicate changes in climate confronting all the main regions of NPA and highlight how organisations (private and communal) are responding to them. \n\nThe focus in the project developed from tourism to include agriculture (including forestry) and fisheries, which have relations to the tourism offer in all regions, but in different ways. Green and circular economy actions achieved and underway would be highlighted. \n\nAs a Storymap, there is the opportunity for enterprises to promote themselves, their practices, services and products, which should lead to market benefits. The project thus aimed to link dealing with climate change with promotion of the locations and local products. \n\nThe Storymap would also act as a focal point for other digital and green innovations, which  enable enterprises and communities to promote themselves and adopt solutions to climate change issues. This approach followed the model of diffusion of innovation and met its five criteria. It was not complex, compatible with existing practices and technologies, easily trialable within the project period, and with suitable indicators can provide tangible results. \n\nIn bringing together map, graphical and story presentations, it was seen as having a clear relative advantage over disparate offers in three media approaches. It would also add value to data, which is already collected but not made full use of. \n\nThe project responded to the comments made by the secretariat in a number of ways. It connected with Interreg NPA projects DISTINCT and INNOCAP to avoid overlaps/develop synergies. The proponents of these projects were contacted.  The approach of DISTINCT is to use technology foresight techniques and document existing disruptive technology.  It has a clear ICT focus, but appears to be aiming at leading edge rather than tried technologies, and thus liaison would be useful. INNOCAP is a preparatory project, which aims to tackle the lack of awareness by public sector organisations for innovative solutions.  There are public service providers, who may also be touched on in BRAIN, which may provide for complementary activities or potential overlaps.  BRAIN was distinct from and complementary to the above projects by its focus on circular economy and green business model. \n\nAs a result of the contact with the  DISTINCT partner at Umeå University (SE),   Umeå University was incorporated as a full partner in the main application submitted.  It was involved early on the project development and took part in the project development meetings on line and in person. \n\nA full project was developed and submitted under S.O 1.3, which was suggested as potentially more appropriate by the Secretariat.  As indicated above it expanded the partnership to include a Swedish partner, which added to the existing Irish, Icelandic and Finnish participants.  \n","Castlebar , Galway,  Hvammstangi, Joensuu","IE, IS, FI",{"$nulls":5},5]
["NPA0400112","Printed hybrid electronics for sustainable intelligent applications.","There is a known demand for intelligent, but sustainable applications in the food and beverages industry, such as seafood production and logistics, where ensuring the quality of food products, improving the efficiency of logistics, and preventing food waste loss are key challenges. New intelligent technologies are also a vital part of constructing energy-efficient buildings, where sensors and control systems enable the house automation towards less energy usage, while ensuring the safety of inhabitants and health of buildings. When the use of intelligent applications increases it inevitably means more electronics to be manufactured. The manufacturing of electronics must be changed to more environmentally friendly by using new sustainable processes and novel materials and by exploring the possibilities and capabilities of these new technologies.\n\nManufacturing of food products and beverages, construction and education are all key growth sectors of the NPA area and there is a great deal of expertise in the region to solve the challenges related to lack of information on using novel technologies in those sectors. Lack of information is slowing down the exploitation of the technology in different applications. The project will answer to the need to develop new technology’s reliability and quality, make processes more mature and produce new knowledge towards a cost-efficient, sustainable way of manufacturing electronics.\n\nThe project constructs a broad and balanced transnational partnership, with strong and active stakeholder participation. The project will facilitate the development of research and innovation capacities and the uptake of technologies for novel products and services. The collaboration between the researchers and the industry enables the testing of technologies and applications for the industry’s needs.","2023-06-01","2023-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","028 Technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and higher education sector","N",37253.71,"ERDF",24214.91,65,"Preparatory project focused on stakeholder and partner group identification, mapping and creation.\nOamk and LTU created first a rough plan of the project idea and used it as a guideline and information for the process of mapping relevant stakeholders from SMEs and other enterprises, HEIs, RTOs and other interested parties.\n\nRelevant stakeholders and partners were contacted and engaged in the mapping and partner group creation process. Work included contacting our existing network, sourcing for new partners, sending emails and meetings with possible partners. It also included visits to relevant events and partners to discuss and plan collaboration possibilities. Contacts with local municipalities, SMEs and non-government organizations were identified and new ones formed. \n\nThe main project collaboration network was finalized with focus on finding specific expertise and facilities that can be used by the partners for further development, designing, and testing of novel products and applications.\n\nPartners contributed and implemented technology and application feasibility study and survey needed to get an overview on the possibilities of the technology and needs of the industry.\n\nMain project application was finally created. After developing relationships the role and tasks of each partner was determined, the scope of the project (the technological possibilities and market needs) clarified and the necessary and sufficient actions to achieve the project goals were identified.\nThe main project work packages were developed, means of knowledge transfer between partners established as well as agreement on an effective management structure and the roles of each project member.","Luleå, Oulu","SE, FI",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0300102","Literary Tourism Immersive Technology Acceleration","The NPA region is characterised by sparse population & extreme peripherality, a rich diversity of cultures with distinct identities & indigenous peoples. N-LiTe is a follow on from NPA Spot-Lit project, that addressed the need for shared development/marketing of literary assets. The Covid pandemic highlighted the fragility specifically of those in the tourism/service industry, Spot-lit was re-imagined digitally resulting from COVID19 when travel all but ceased & the tourism industry failed. Learnings evidenced the need for cooperation across regions to maximise place-based LT development and capacity building for SMEs to develop new digital innovations to increase their competitiveness, resilience and create wider access to markets. N-LiTe aims to deliver new innovative digital solutions/immersive digital experiences that support links into larger markets and further promote place-based literary tourism. By adopting a design-thinking approach & learning from Spot-lit and new partner countries we aim to deliver *A new Digital Capacity Building Programme for SMEs & organisations. * Development of new immersive digital technology promoting place-based literary assets for domestic and international tourists. *An International Literary Industry Tourism Symposium and Framework to embed durable, sectoral support from policymakers. * Securing a Digital Future by engaging with young people across the NPA through new creative literary technology. *A Toolkit as a means to preserve the project learnings & to promote technology adoption & sustainable tourism. Our shared culture and heritage is enhanced through the diversity of our transnational partnership and connectivity with other EU projects.","2023-07-01","2026-06-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","024 Advanced support services for SMEs and groups of SMEs (including management, marketing and design services)","N",1499970.4,"ERDF",812818.76,65,"At project start up, WDC as lead partner developed with partners a Policies and Procedures Manual via Partnership Agreement, a Quality Assurance Plan, an Implementation Plan, Risk Management Strategy, Risk Register and a Communications Strategy. Shared folders have been set up in MS Teams where all partners have access. The N-Lite partnership held  three online partner meetings and one in person meeting in Sweden. The Sweden meeting was planned to coincide with the NPA Annual Event & Lead Partner Seminar on the 8th & 9th of November 2023 in Skellefteå so that partners were able to attend. Partners have also focused on communicating the project to regional stakeholders and creating network for future engagement and cooperation. Partners are working effectively to build consensus in decision-making, assume shared responsibility for collaborative work and project deliverables. The partnership meetings were valuable in enabling partners to explore the contrast and similarities and to and gain a collective understanding of the current needs of each region with a view to planning areas of synergy and joint activities for the project. Baseline and Longitudinal Research has been developed with all partner input and questionnaire will be circulated in all partner regions. We have focused also on planning for the local pilot program in period two where a technology will be utilised to further tourism development through the uptake of one of the chosen technologies. To select the technology, theme and locally relevant pilot, an open call is currently in planning to invite regional tourism stakeholders in each country. Through the call, stakeholders are invited to a workshop organised between the local N-Lite partner and KAMK. KAMK will attend workshops in all participating countries to present the technologies, support pilot concept development, and map the end users’ requirements. Our second in person meeting in Ireland in April 2024 is scheduled. \nDuring project period 2, the D.1.1.2 Preliminary Research Survey has been distributed in all partner regions. The purpose of the survey was to capture information & experiences across partner regions of the use of digital approaches to literary tourism in literary, cultural and tourism organizations across the NPA region. The survey was open during different periods in different regions during the spring. The last region's survey was closed on June 15. A total of 118 responses were received. The efforts made by Region Västerbotten together with other partners will contribute to a greater understanding of the current state of experience and attitudes towards immersive technology among the project's target groups (see annexe for D.1.1.2 Preliminary Research Survey interim report).\n\nD.1.1.3 “Exploring Digital” capacity building workshops localised and delivered by KAMK in collaboration with local partners in each of the partner countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands, Ireland). The workshops focused on the introduction of of immersive technologies (VR/AR/MR) to tourism and culture stakeholders and the potential use in their work. Local stakeholders participated and learned the potential of the technologies. The second part of the workshop focused on ideation and development of concepts for the local stories/experiences/content that will be part of the ‘’immersive experience platform’’. Once the concepts were chosen, KAMK staff visited local points of interests (museums, libraries, churches, nature areas etc.) to take reference materials and create 3D models using drone photogrammetry to generate the first pieces of content for the platform from each pilot country. \n\nYouth have a vital role in the project and partners considered and discussed their involvement within the workshops as well as their roles in content creation. Further engagement and youth workshops are being planned for Peiod 3. \nDuring the period, all partners have progressed the creation of immersive literary experiences with KAMK and stakeholders.\n\nPartners have also participated and contributed to partner meetings, three online and one face to face meeting in Ireland in April.  One Steering Group meeting has also been held in this period with representation from all partner regions. \n\nLots of dissemination activities took place aimed at promoting the project workshops and to raise awareness of the benefits of immersive technologies for SMEs/ LT/Cultural organisations. The workshops provided and excellent\nopportunity to promote immersive technologies in tourism as well as the N-LITE project itself. \n\n","Nordland, Umeå, Torshavn, Kajaani, Ballaghadereen","NO, SE, FO, FI, IE",{"$nulls":5},7]
["NPA0600155","Enhancing digital entrepreneurship and business transfer readiness in sparsely populated and peripherical regions","The Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) regions suffer from rapid aging, sparse population, and long distances. The increasing number of young people are relocating to larger urban areas and changes in demography pose several challenges for SMEs and local service provision. For example, there is a huge decrease in opportunities for business transfer/succession. By introducing new digital technologies, the existing businesses could receive a new life by widening the potential market area and engaging the local people (e.g. youth) to take over the business and make their living in the rural communities. \n\nThis project contributes to Specific Objective \n\n1.2 Reaping the benefits of digitalization for citizens, companies, research organizations and public authorities. The target groups include especially the SMEs and Business Support Organizations of the sparsely populated NPA regions, but also interest groups, higher education and research organizations, and general public will be engaged. The goal of this preparatory project and the Main Project ahead is to enhance the vitality of the sparsely populated areas by supporting and developing business transfer and succession planning processes and developing digital entrepreneurial skills. The preparatory project aims to define the baseline of this development work, engage the best potential consortium of organizations to take over the Main Project activities and complete a successful Main Project application.\n\nThe challenges of the decrease in the vibrant workforce, and lack of opportunities for entrepreneurs and business transfer/succession impact both businesses and regional well-being, e.g. reduced birth rate, loss of essential services and access to markets. In this preparatory project, the Main Project tackling these challenges will be carefully designed and prepared in transnational cooperation. The project partners represent two geographical zones (Finland, Ireland) and two types of organizations: Business support organizations and Higher Education Institutions, respectively. Partners have both a wide experience in transnational projects including the NPA programme and deep knowledge of the topics to be developed (business transfer/succession processes, digital business models and tools, new technologies, capacity building of entrepreneurs). \n\nThe value of transnational knowledge sharing and good practice exchange are vital in addressing the unique issues of business transfer and new technologies. Finland’s provision of business transfer awareness and readiness is well advanced compared to Ireland though more development is required in both countries. Research from Finland notes that in the next five years, one in three businesses will seek to transfer their business. In Ireland, only 23% of family businesses have a viable succession plan. There is also a need for capacity building: to enhance entrepreneurial climate and entrepreneurship skills, provide clarity of vision, business models and leadership, and expertise in new technologies.\n\nThe preparatory project will proceed towards the Main Project application by the following activities: \n- Baseline study to define the current state of business transfer services and digital business technology readiness in different NPA regions.\n- Survey and analysis of entrepreneurial and digital readiness across the NPA regions with special target group of young people and in the viewpoint of business transfer /modernizing the business plan by digitalization and new technologies.\n- Search of potential Main Project partners by benefitting the wide networks of the preparatory project partners. Engagement will be made through active stakeholder communications, joint workshops in the partner regions, discussions with experienced business advisors, and participation in topic-specific events. \n- Main Project idea development based on the implementation of the earlier preparatory project activities. \n\nThe approach to boost business transfers /succession by capacity building and introduction of new technologies is new to Northern Periphery and Arctic programme. Transnational cooperation and a mixture of organisation types and experience will create a unique and innovative incubator for a high-quality Main Project application.","2023-12-01","2024-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.2. Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","018 IT services and applications for digital skills and digital inclusion","N",99522.7,"ERDF",64689.75,65,"The preparatory projects’ overall objective was to jointly develop the project idea and build a Main Project proposal based on the needs of target groups and the findings of the preparatory project activities. \nThe preparatory project consisted of two organizations that complemented each other’s knowledge and networks. BJOE as LP is a business support organization with long experience of business acquisitions. MTU, through their Hincks Centre has extensive experience in conducting evidence-based transnational research and the design and delivery of innovative training programmes. \nCo-operation was succesful and we managed to widen the partnership for the main project and quite easily found the key elements for the main project application.\nBoth organizations had their own strengths, MTU as a research organisation successfully conducted a survey on the obstacles to and facilitators of business ownership transfer. BJOE concentrated on the desk study of the current state of business transfer services and widening the partnership for the main project. Helen McGuirk and Brenda Lynch from MTU worked with this project part time and Heli Hirvonen from Business Joensuu, also part time.\nAs a result it was obvious that a main project in boosting the continuity and digitalization in rural businesses would be very beneficial. A main project application for BOCOD project was submitted end of September 2024. Main project application partners in the application are: Munster Technological University (LP) (Ireland), Business Joensuu (Finland), University of Oulu (Finland), Lapland University of Applied Sciences (Finland), Austurbru  (Iceland), Vestfirdir (Iceland). ","Cork, Joensuu","IE, FI",{"$nulls":5},2]
["NPA0500141","Northern Buildings in Changing Climate","Due to climate change, the shifts between cold and mild during winter will become more frequent, winds will most likely become stronger and flawy, and the rainfall will increase. In addition, air humidity will increase. The combination of increased wind and rain may cause extra exposure of moisture/humidity to buildings. \n\nNoBiCC wants to investigate the influence of this changes from Greenland with the arctic climate, to Island and Norway with costal climate and Sweden and Finland with inland climate in the north, because ambient conditions play an important role in the energy efficiency of buildings.\n\nThe effect of changing ambient conditions on the surface of various building wall structures will be studied using wind behaviour simulations to identify which locations in different shape of buildings are the most probable targets to extra moisture load. \n\nThe project will lead to the next generation buildings and architectural designs for climate smart future.","2024-01-01","2026-12-31","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","060 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: others, e.g. storms and drought (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches)","N",1499723.3,"ERDF",438969.89,65,"The NoBiCC project has started and is going as planned for the first reporting period. (Period 1)\n\nIt is always a lot of activities going on in the start of the project. UiT attended the NPA Lead partner seminar in November 2023 and did preparations for the project startup. There was some preparation and adjustments to the application together with the NPA secretariate before getting the Grant agreement. \n\nIn February we hosted the Kick-Off meeting at UiT Campus Narvik. This was a 2-day event with well spent hours on project planning, communications, economy and reporting with presentations and discussions from all WP’s done by the responsible partner. In addition to a dinner in the afternoon, we had a technical tour of the new hospital building in Narvik (open 20th of November 2024), with a focus primarily on buildings and technical installations. All partners participated and for the ones not able to travel, there was put up a Teams link so as many as possible could participate during the sessions.\n\nAll partners have started their work in their WP’s, and the first output is also published. We have regular monthly meetings on Teams where all partners participate, and we address progress, deliverables, planning and communication and dissemination. We have planned for one physical meeting with each partner during the project period. The work in all WP’s has been started and some of the tasks like WP3.1 have also completed the installation of field measurement equipment already collecting data.\n\nWe have also during the 1 period prepared the Consortium agreement, assigned financial manager and communication manager. All partners have assigned their financial contact for reporting.  \nWe have also started to involve the associated partners to involve them in our work and dissemination. In the next partner meeting planned in Island the several industry actors will be invited. \n","Nuuk, Umeå, Reykjavík, Oulu, Narvik","GL, SE, IS, FI, NO",{"$nulls":5},5]
["NPA0100011","Demonstrating New Generation Robotics and Smart Manufacturing to SMEs in the NPA Region","The main challenges for companies operating in the Interreg NPA area are their remoteness from the market, weak international competitiveness and labor supply, low productivity, insufficient capacity, labor-intensive manual work methods, and the need to develop products, processes, and services following the principles of sustainable development. The obstacles to growth and the low utilization rate of smart manufacturing are mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of suitable technological solutions, the benefits they bring, the lack of application know-how, and the low willingness to invest in companies in the robotics and automation domain.\n \nThe RoboDemo project responds to this challenge by involving new generation robotics and I\n\n4.0 technologies that provide key solutions to the challenges described above I\n\n4.0 technologies like cobots, mobile robots, advanced drones, and intelligent automation solutions have recently proved to have a great cost-benefit ratio to invest in. Moreover, traditional technologies require a lot of knowledge and time to program actions, whereas I\n\n4.0 technologies are faster to program and deploy. \n\nThe overall project aim is to develop and pilot an efficient and cross-national technology transfer model that supports companies in the NPA area. This will be done by combining areas of consortium expertise to promote the adoption of smart manufacturing and I\n\n4.0 technologies for business development. A technology transfer service concept developed by Centria is used as the base for the development tool (see Annex for description). It includes rapid technology experiments and demonstrations with transferrable devices on the SME's premises or in an industrial operating environment. Technological solutions can also be illustrated with the help of simulation software. The resulting outputs will be increased competitiveness and innovation within manufacturing companies.","2022-12-01","2025-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","028 Technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and higher education sector","N",1452392.98,"ERDF",719000.0699999999,65,"The start-up phase of the project has been successfully completed. The partners have recruited and assigned their project personnel of RoboDemo. Staff from the partner organisations have got to know each other and two face to face meetings have been organised during the first reporting period, the first one in Finland and the second in Ireland. In addition, an established remote meeting routine has been established where partners meet every two weeks using the Teams platform. Eduuni platform for secure file sharing has been deployed between partners.\n\nThe project has created common communication materials in accordance with the financier's guidelines. Information about the project has been added to each partner's website and a poster has been created and displayed.\n\nThe project has been marketed to businesses in the project area through social media channels and by contacting them personally. Demonstration processes under the project activities have thus already started during the first reporting period.\n\nThe development needs assessment form has been developed in cooperation with partners and piloted for the first company cases.\n\nThe partners have worked together to create a risk analysis (1st deliverable, attached) and an initial communication plan, which will be further developed during the second reporting period.\nAfter the start-up phase completed in reporting period 1, the project partners have been able to communicate and initiate their company cases. \n\nStaff from the partner organisations have got to know more about each others competences and equipment during a two days partner meeting, which we arranged on purpose for sustainability, time efficiency and practical reasons at the same week as the NPA annual event. The partner meetings took place in both Luleå and in Skellefteå, Sweden. During only one week, the partners were able to visit the premises of LTU (PP 2) and T2 (PP 4), a frisbee manufacturer in Skellefteå, and the NPA annual event. The lead partner also joined the lead partner meeting, organised by the NPA on the second day of the event.\n\nThe method of organising an online RoboDemo Teams-meeting every two weeks has proven to be a good practice and will be continued. Eduuni platform is used for compiling and sharing the information of each partners company cases, as well as other project documentation. Memos of each meeting are saved to Eduuni so that they support the partnership and cross border collaboration.\n\nThe first steering committee meeting was convened in August, where the project and the progress were introduced to the members of the committee.\n\nThe project has been marketed to businesses in the project area through social media channels and by contacting them personally. Demonstration processes under the project activities have thus already started during the first reporting period.\n\nThe preliminary development needs assessment form has been used as a base for conversations with the companies.\nDuring the third reporting period, RoboDemo partners have speed up the demonstration processes. The first demonstration videos have been published in project's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@interregnparobodemo. More videos are under editing process.\n\nIn collaboration with partners, a questionnaire to identify the needs of businesses has been reviewed, as well as an approach for conducting a needs assessment. These have resulted in project deliverables 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 (attached to this report).\n\nLP participated in the website training, after which a mini-website was created for the project, where project content and outputs will be collected in addition to social media channels. https://www.linkedin.com/company/interreg-npa-robodemo/. In addition, organisational project pages are still online.\n\nAll partners have addressed the amount of indirect state aid, which has been calculated for each company case (the General Block Exemption Regulation (EU) 2021/1237, Article 20a). The extent of each demonstration has been measured in a way that the value will not exceed 22 000 €. If a partner has given the demonstrations in a seminar or workshop for multiple companies at the same time, the value for the company would be the participation fee of such event, which is not significant.\n\nThe LP participated in the webinar on horizontal principles (by the Interreg NPA) and shared the information from the webinar with partners. Each partner first completed step 1 of the assignment with their own good practices, followed by a workshop to jointly decide on a common set of practices for the project. The summary of step 1 is attached to this report and the results of step 2 have been stored in JEMS in the project files according to the financier's instructions.\n\nPP3 and LP have written and presented and published a scientific publication in IEEE/SICE 2024 International Symposium on System Integration.\n\nThe steering committee had their 2nd meeting after the second reporting period ended.\n\nAll the project activities have proceeded as planned.\n","NA, N/A, Narvik, Luleå, Kokkola","IE, SE, NO, FI",{"$nulls":5},6]
["NPA0300105","Sustainable Arctic and Peripheral Biking Tourism","SUB project aims to transfer and develop entrepreneurial skills and sustainable business models in biking tourism in collaboration with micro and SMEs. SUB partners see biking tourism as an emerging sector having the potential to contribute to economic diversification and resilience in remote areas. Enhancing the economic growth of the local micro and SMEs will play a pivotal role in achieving growth and increasing employment.\nThe novelty of the SUB is that partners are key orchestrators in the regional ecosystem. SUB regional focus group approach invites the micro & SMEs to join with other key target group representatives to participate and benefit from the SUB. The transnational exchange of experiences will give tools to develop biking tourism sustainably. It will also be used to develop the industry’ among the young generation. SUB will also build the concepts for clustering, fostering the industry to grow sustainably, connecting entrepreneurial capacities across regions, and adapting marketing models for a greater market reach. \nSUB will implement, with the support of the focus group, three objectives:\n- To develop transnational best practices model to perform sustainable biking business within the NPA regions\n- To implement Capacity building in the entrepreneurial skills and business models for SUB\n- To launch the SUB network and clustering collaboration practices supporting the greater market reach\nThe sustainability pillars are the cross-cutting issues in the project and the breeding ground of all actions in the project. That is supported by a joint sustainability toolkit including guidance or sustainable investments, regional master plans, good practises and increased digital skills. Practical actions include the exchange of experiences regionally and internally, peer-to-peer learning, applicable capacity-building scheme, voucher scheme and transnational clustering. Through these actions, the consortium is contributing direct benefits to the companies.","2023-06-01","2026-05-31","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","024 Advanced support services for SMEs and groups of SMEs (including management, marketing and design services)","N",1876079.6,"ERDF",958992.8199999999,65,"During the 1st period the SUB partner consortium's focus has been on activities 1.1 'Organising SUB interregional and regional events', and 1.2 'Ad hoc think tank analysis of NPA sustainable biking tourism environment'.\n\nThe SUB team developed practices to support the transnational cooperation. These practices included, for example, internal and external communication plan including measures and objectives, and partnership agreement. The communication plan and partnership agreement are attached to the project report.\n\nDuring the 1st period, the SUB team has delivered SUB online platform (activity 1.1, D.1.1.1), Microsoft Teams platform, to support the implementation and coordination of activities and cooperation between the consortium. The online platform targeted for external stakeholders to support the capacity building programmes will be launched later on as it is not yet needed in the 1st six months of SUB operations. \n\nThe periodical interregional meeting (IM) and reparatory SUB CG meetings (activity 1.1, D.1.1.9) was also delivered during the 1st period. To support the team work, the Lead Partner organized core group (CG) meetings to discuss periodical framework, implementation, roles, responsibilities, and progress. All the partners joined actively to these meetings to give their insights. The 1st IM was held in Posio, Eastern Lapland, on October 11th to agree on communications plan, schedule the implementation for 2nd period, and discuss reporting related questions and guidelines.\n\nDuring the IM the partner consortium also kicked off the regional focus group work (activity 1.1, D.1.1.2). On October 10th the SUB team invited regional stakeholders to join to 'Growth from Sustainable Biking Tourism Development' hybrid event. The event introduced the project and its themes to partner regions' target groups and invited them to join to activities and to focus group work. Some of the SUB synergy projects; STIL - Slow Travel in Northern Rural Landscapes (NPA) and the Arctic Bikepacking Trail (ERDF) presented their project results in the event. The event was a success as it gathered 40 participants to join around the SUB regions. These participants presented regions' micro and SMEs, business support organizations, local public authorities, higher education, and project's associated partners. The transnational event was a good way to present the project to its stakeholders. The entrepreunial stories presented were interesting and the regions participating learned a lot on different kind of best practices when it comes to sustainable biking tourism development. The event was recorded and it will be published in social media soon. The program of October 10th and 11th, and the participants of the event, are attached to partner report. \n\nThe SUB team also started the Think Tank work to deliver the current state reports on partnering regions' sustainable biking operational environment (activity 1.2). Activity lead, LUKE, established the multidisciplinary SUB Think Tank team and agreed on its practices together with the partner representatives. LUKE developed a transnational practice for data gathering on the following topics: 1) entrepreunial skills and business capacity, 2) digital solutions in developing greater market reach, 3) networks enabling the clustering, and 4) meaning of sustainability in biking tourism. The deliverable 1.2.1 is attached to this report. \n\nTo deliver the D.1.2.2 'SUB think tank meetings online and during the periodical meeting', and to coordinate the work, LUKE organized online think tank meetings and onsite workshop during the IM. From the transnational cooperation view point, these Think Tank team meetings have been a great 'arena' to share and discuss regional/transnational findings and learn on best practices. All the partner representatives have joined to these meetings and given their insights. During the 1st period the SUB team started to gather the regional information for Think Tank from existing sources and by stakeholder interviews. \nLEAD PARTNER TASKS   ILKY has organized, and partners participated in monthly core group meetings, weekly SUB cafés, and additional one to one online meetings to support implementation of activities.\n \nCOMMUNICATION  ILKY has provided common material and templates to communicate on SUB events. ILKY also provided Canva online training session to all partners. The SUB project mini website and social media channels are  published: Facebook > SuB TrailBLazers; and LinkedIn > SUB – From biking to Business.\nThe project miniwebsite was lauched.\n \nWP1- Meetings and events\n \nThe consortium held the SUB interregional meeting in Faroe Island, event organised by the local partner Visit Tórshavn (VT). During this week, a Core Group meeting and a Think Tank meeting was conducted, followed by an open event \"Wheels for Change”. Thirty-six people attended the open event, with a total of 16 listeners online.\n\nPrior to event, VT sent out newsletters, resulting in radio news coverage at the national news station, and the newsletters broadcasted widely in the Faroe Islands. The event was boosted on social media to make sure the local stakeholders got the possibility to join.  \n \nSUB partners have organised local meetings for stakeholders to deliver the results of Think Tank Analysis results and to discuss regional strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in biking tourism development. The events were held Pyhätunturi (ILKY), in Torshavn in Faroe Island (VT) and Östersund (JHT).  \n \nSUB representatives of JHT visited the northern parts of the Jämptland region in Sweden to meet entrepreneurs and discuss the potential for cross country, gravel and road biking. JHT has presented the project in our annual general meeting. The project has also been mentioned in an article written by the project leader in Sweden and published at jht.se.  \n \nDCC has attended two promotional events Holiday World show 2024 and the Balmoral show 2024. At both these events the SUB project and Biking Tourism was promoted and discussed with trade members attending. DCC held their Annual Tourism Conference and the SUB project was presented to the attendees at this conference. At a region event for Tourism Providers called \"Meet the Team\" SUB attendees were given a presentation and update on the events of the SUB project. \n\nAll of Donegal County council and Donegal Tourism social media channels are being utilised for promoting the project and updating the public on the events of SUB. Information on SUB can be found on the Donegal County Council and Donegal tourism webpages.   \n \nILKY have organized and participated in various events to find ways to collaborate between different biking related projects in Eastern Lapland, fex. joint meetings with  the municipalities of Pelkosenniemi and Salla. \n \nILKY has participated also in Pyhä -Luosto route masterplan kick-off, and Baltic Sea Tourism Oulu; supported Lapland University of Applied Sciences – Sharing European Sporting Excellences -project in organizing meeting in Suomu, organized meetings with Bikeland,  Last Arctic Frontier -project, KeLi – Kestävä urheilu ja liikunta -project to find ways to collaborate.  \n\nWP1 - Think tank analysis \n \nLUKE coordinated and organized the work of the multidisciplinary SUB think tank team. A harmonized template has been used for data collection among the partners. This work has been coordinated in monthly common online meetings and in continuous one-to-one interaction with partners. \n\tThe information has been gathered from each region of the following four topics: 1) entrepreneurial skills and business capacity, 2) digital solutions in developing greater market reach, 3) networks enabling the clustering and 4) meaning of sustainability in biking tourism. The SUB ad hoc think tank schedules have been followed.  \n\tJHT has participated in this work by contributing data from the current situation analysis, and from the focus group meeting. JHT also proof read material and helped with categorization and layout of the report. \n   \n\nWP2 – Capacity building in entrepreneurial skills and business models   \n\nIn relation to describe a common approach to Capacity Building Scheme for entrepreneurs Autun 2024 and Spring 2025, JHT took a look at how we can use Microsoft Teams as a learning platform within the project, usable by external guests as well.   \n \n\nWP 3 - Networking and clustering cooperation   \n\nDCC with the support of VT began working on WP3 Capacity Building, Clusters and Networks - \"Methodology for Collection of Information\" and \"Sustainable Biking Tourism Questionnaire\".   \n \nJHT has identified more networks that have a bearing on the cycling tourism industry, both regionally and nationally.  JHT conducted interviews to map how the networks work, what knowledge already exists and where there are gaps. Work has also been done to investigate how a county-wide bicycle network can function and be built up. \nINSIGHTFUL PARTNER MEET IN SWEDEN\n\nSuccessful SUB partner meet was organized in Sweden by JHT. Partners had the opportunity to get to know each other better, discuss project challenges, and identify solutions for the future. \n\nThe program included a Lofsdalen Bike Park visit, providing hands-on experience in mountain biking, as well as valuable insights into trail building projects, entrepreneurship, product development, bike park maintenance and funding. \n\nILKY brought along three stakeholders: a fellow project Last Arctic Frontier project, a biking enthusiast from Syöte, and a local tourism organization in Posio, all of whom found the experience highly valuable.\n\nTHINK TANK REPORT COMPLETED\n\nThe LUKE-led joint Think Tank report, including the regional analysis, has been completed and published on the SUB miniwebsite. ILKY has highlighted the regional analysis with its conclusions and recommendations through local media, workshops, and events.\n\nPEER-TO-PEER EXCHANGE SELECTION PROCESS COMPLETED\n\nThe peer-to-peer learning exchange process, including the plan, call for applications, and participant selection, has been completed. A total of 27 entrepreneurs from five partner countries  will have the opportunity to participate in the programs, which will take place in Finland, Ireland, or Sweden in 2025.\n\nSUSTAINABILITY PILLAR WORK EMBARKS PIVOTAL CHANGE \n\nILKY identified the sustainability pillars and created a worksheet for SUB partners to advance the sustainability task locally. However,  this approach failed to meaningfully engage SUB partners in exploring the topic in depth.\nRecognizing the need for a new approach, JHT initiated discussions that made the issue clear. LUKE subsequently introduced a new task management tool: a shared sheet template designed to guide partners in contributing to activities. By enabling collaboration on a single document, this tool fosters transparency in tracking each partner’s progress (or lack thereof), provides valuable insights, and enhances project management. Initial feedback indicates that this new method marks a significant improvement in SUB collaboration. Thus, the management template will be adapted for future SUB activities.\n\nCAPACITY BUILDING SCHEME IN PROGRESS\n\nNearly all parnters have started with the implementation of the capacity building program locally. Facilitated by the local SUB teams or external experts, partners have organized local workshops and networksing events digging deeper into the themes of cycling tourism development.\n\nNETWORKING\n\nBy participating in national and international cycling development and tourism events, parnters have created networks, raised knowhow and increased understanding of cycling specific topics.\n\nACTIVE COMMUNICATION \n\nSUB partners expressed a need for promotional video to showcase the project. ILKY facilitated the production of this video, which is now almost ready for all partners to use in theri communication efforts.\nSUB social media engagement has advanced on many levels.  On Instagram (@bikeperiphery), we achieved our follower goal within 4 months from the start.  We have also contributed to the Interreg NPA hosted SUB Miniwebsite with several articles. The video file is too big to attatch here, but you can find it at SUB miniwebsite and YouTube: https://youtu.be/DmVEHErxZTM","Lifford, Östersund, Torshavn, Sauðárkrókur, Rovaniemi, Kemijärvi","IE, SE, FO, IS, FI",{"$nulls":5},7]
["NPA0200066","Utilization of by-products of cheese-making and productization of whey in Northern area","The aim of preparatory project is to jointly develop a high-quality main project application called ArcticFoodWhey - Utilization of by-products of cheese-making and productization of whey in Northern area. ArcticFoodWhey is concerned with promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy in dairy industry, especially in small-scale dairies and cheese factories, in Finland, Ireland and Faroe Islands. The core of the project is to develop and share best practices concerning better use of whey through transnational co-operation. In cheese making process whey is by-product which needs further handling and processing, even though it often ends up being worthless waste. Whey recovery and possibilities of utilization has been examined recent years around the world. Whey has been used, for example, in protein powders - some larger scale dairies have also developed other products. However, there is still need for jointly developed, effective, and common solutions for reducing whey waste, as well as applying knowledge to practice. Bulk of whey has not been used as a profitable way, but it provides many value-added opportunities for further production. The aim of main project is to promote resource efficiency, end-of-waste, and a better use of by-products of cheese making through co-development and engaging key stakeholders. Project will also seek possibilities and common solutions for advancing value chain, productization and marketing of whey in northern areas.\n\nAim of preparatory project is to examine the possibility of cooperation and co-development with SMEs and large-scale enterprises in dairy industry, as well as with other relevant stakeholders. Project’s aim is also to start preliminary study and analysis about present state of whey utilization, and possibilities, demand, and necessity for new product development of whey, for example, in natural products, cosmetics, healthcare, additional nutrients, feed or energy industries.","2022-12-01","2023-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","072 Use of recycled materials as raw materials compliant with the efficiency criteria","N",79520,"ERDF",51688,65,"The \"ArcticFoodWhey\" project embarked on an innovative journey to transform whey, traditionally seen as a by-product of cheese production, into valuable resources across the dairy industries of Finland, Ireland, and the Faroe Islands. By developing and implementing novel whey processing techniques, the project not only introduced new revenue streams for small-scale dairies through the production of whey protein concentrates and lactose derivatives but also made strides in reducing the environmental impact associated with whey disposal. This endeavor significantly contributed to the circular economy within the dairy sector by showcasing how waste products can be repurposed into valuable commodities.A cornerstone of the project's success was the cross-regional cooperation that facilitated an enriching exchange of knowledge and best practices. This collaborative effort not only enhanced the project's overall impact through the adaptation of solutions to different local contexts but also ensured the broad dissemination of the project's findings. Additionally, the project placed a strong emphasis on capacity building among dairy producers, providing them with the necessary training to independently apply whey valorization techniques. This approach has equipped producers with the tools to sustainably manage whey as a resource, ensuring the project's long-term benefits.Moreover, the insights generated from the project have begun to influence policy discussions around waste management and sustainability in the dairy sector. By providing concrete examples of how whey can be effectively valorized, \"ArcticFoodWhey\" has the potential to inform future regulations and incentives that promote more sustainable practices across the industry.In essence, \"ArcticFoodWhey\" achieved its goal of redefining whey from a waste product to a resource, promoting both environmental sustainability and economic viability for small-scale dairies. The project stands as a testament to the value of cooperation and innovation in addressing sustainability challenges, offering a replicable model for similar initiatives worldwide. \nInitially, the partners set up a Teams platform under the leadership of the main partner, which also includes potential future partners. We have agreed on how to start drafting the main application. The main partner shared a template, which we began to fill out together. Communications have primarily taken place via email and Teams. We have held online meetings on April 5 (10:00-12:00), September 14 (10:30-15:00 Faroe Island time), September 29 (14:30-16:00), October 13 (14:30-16:00), October 20 (14:30-16:00), November 3 (14:30-16:00), November 10 (14:30-16:00), November 14 (12:00-13:30 Iceland time), and after the project's conclusion but before the main project deadline on January 25 (20:00-21:30), January 26 (16:00-17:00), January 30 (16:00-17:00, 20:00-22:30), February 1 (16:00-17:00). In addition, we have organized live sessions in Ireland at Teagasc Cork from February 2-5, 2023, in Reykjavik, Iceland, from May 15-19, 2023 (with a travel program attached), met at Niemitalo cheese farm in Pudasjärvi, Finland, on June 2, 2023, in Umeå, Sweden, from June 12-15, 2023, in Rovaniemi at the Arctic Center and University of Lapland from October 17-19, 2023, and in Dublin, Ireland, at Dublin College from October 26-29, 2023 (including student Marlo Kinanen, who conducted a whey market research study in Finland, the research is attached in Finnish). The purpose of all online and live meetings has been to work on the main project application and to find new project partners. Through this work, an Icelandic partner, the Arctic Center in Rovaniemi, and associated partners have joined the project. As a result, a project application was developed and submitted by the deadline 5.1.2024 for call 4. This culminated in the formulation of a comprehensive proposal aimed at addressing the specific objectives outlined within the framework of the call, marking a significant milestone in the project's progression. The ArcticFoodWhey project exemplifies innovative collaboration, uniting partners across Finland, Ireland, and the Faroe Islands to transform whey into a valuable resource. Our strategic approach, combining meticulously planned online meetings with adaptable live sessions, has been vital. Online meetings, held on Teams, foster structured dialogue and efficient decision-making, ensuring our diverse team remains aligned despite geographic distances. Live meetings, without fixed agendas, focus on hands-on application work and spontaneous discussion, nurturing partner camaraderie and creative solutions. This dual method balances logistical efficiency with the flexibility needed for collaborative innovation, propelling us toward redefining whey utilization in the dairy industry and contributing to a sustainable circular economy.","Co. Westmeath, Dublin , Fermoy, Oulu","IE, FI",{"$nulls":5},4]
["NPA0300093","Digital Action on Climate Change with Heritage Environments","Digital Action on Climate Change with Heritage Environments (DACCHE) facilitates the use of local knowledge and equips communities to preserve cultural landscapes, with digital solutions and methods for communication of climate stories, instilling advocacy in the face of a rapidly changing environment. \nCultural landscapes are home to communities and their heritage. Landscapes, archaeological sites, artefacts, and intangible practice threaten human legacy through temperature variance, and extreme weather conditions. \n\nDACCHE investigates how organisations can leverage emergent technologies to build local capacity for climate change adaptation, risk prevention and disaster resilience. By leveraging community knowledge and approaching new challenges from the perspective of “learning through heritage” we motivate and enable tourists, youth, local people and authorities to inspire behavioural changes for societal and environmental benefits, progressing to global net zero.","2023-07-01","2026-06-30","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","060 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: others, e.g. storms and drought (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches)","N",1115155.31,"Other, ERDF",584285.78,65,"The work this period has focused on the initiation of the project, and creating a ground for its implementation. Please refer to the Work Plan progress for more in-depth descriptions and Attachments.\n\nIn the beginning of the period, the focus has been on generating a common picture and agenda for the project amongst the partnership, and a work model for the implementation of project's activities. The main key success factors for the project were identified. Jamtli, the Lead Partner, met with partners and associated partners in the beginning to get to know each other, and a kick-off physical partner meeting was planned and held at Jamtli 5-6th of October (Activity 1.1).\n\nThe core focus for each partner region was identified and a clear scope defined in line with each partners' budget and resources. FINM have a focus on physical restoration of peatlands, with simple but effective digital solutions to convey their stories together with their community. GST and CDHA will focus on their site with the use and development of technologies focusing on citizen monitoring and scanning. DCM will focus on community engagement, involving different community groups to choose the types of technologies based on the specific needs of their sites and their communities' capabilities. Jamtli and NCK will focus on their heritage sites, digitizing artifacts, landscapes and creating, in dialogue with communities and target groups, digital visualizations and exhibitions that convey the stories created in the process. All these approaches have the aim of working with processes that increase knowledge, awareness and capacity for climate action. \n\nIn WP 1 partners wrote and shared a story about their regional case study (heritage site), as a start for Activity 1.4, (gathering of information), for the upcoming development of digital visualizations and exhibitions for heritage sites. This activity was continued and deepend by gathering and analysis of more information throughout the period. GST and CDHA are working closely on a site located close to GST. FINM on peatlands. Jamtli and NCK are working closely on a Sami Site. DCM has taken a different approach, where they will first establish contact with different community groups, and let them choose a site in the coastal region.\n\nThe planning and execution of the Open Seminar, Activity 1.1, was coordinated by Jamtli in collaboration with GST and CDHA, as co-leaders for WP 1.\n\nThe appointing of the Panel of Climate Heritage Experts, Activity 1.2, was coordinated by Jamtli, and in collaboration with NCK, a forum to connect the Panel with the target groups was designed and proposed. The proposal was discussed and improved in partnership dialogue, and preparations were made to pilot the Forum in period 2.\n\nA set-up for a workshop series (course) to be implemented with different target groups, as per Activity 1.3, was developed by Jamtli and NCK, with a focus on data gathering through storytelling. FINM has carried out workshops with their community to inform about the project and gather stories, from  youth to elders. GST and CDHA have done workshops on the topic of citizen science. DCM will organise workshops with their community groups in April 2024.\n\nIn WP 2, a feasibility study was done in partnership dialogue, to scope and prioritize technologies to visualize the regional heritage sites, as per Activity 2.1. The process focused on aligning expectations with budget. For this, preparations for a tender were started by the LP, that will deepen in Period 2. It was set that techs will be used. \n\nFor Activity 2.3, Jamtli engaged the leading company Quixel Megascans Epic Games for a collaboration, in which they provide training and support in our work with digital modelling of cultural landscapes and artifacts. Through this collaboration, trainings and initial preparations for studio and equipment setup were done. This knowledge and experiences will be available to roll over to other partners.\n\nIn WP 3, Activities 3.2 and 3.3 were adressed, by establishing a collaborations with youth organisations with whom to work with in the Creation of the Youth Manifesto and Torusim Framework. The focus on this was to start working with them early, so that the Manifesto and Framework can be based on experiences. This was mainly done by the partners in Sweden and in Iceland.\n\nApart from the work in the activities, Jamtli recruited a Communication Manager for the project, who started in October. The key questions for communication and target groups were identified in dialogue with NPA, and a communication strategy and plan for the project was developed, and its implementation started (attached).\n\nAs Lead Partner, Jamtli coordinated and led partner meetings (attached).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgress has been made on activities, deliverables and outputs according to plan. This period did not imply finalizing deliverables or outputs (please refer to time plan), but has created necessary foundations for upcoming periods. The following were important areas of focus.\n\nMonitoring and Mapping of Cultural Landscapes - partners have progressed in this activity and the project has received valuable training/experience. Both by internal experience sharing within the transnational partnership, as well as through external experts. This has provided the team with necessary capabilities for upcoming work.\n\nThe digital modelling of cultural landscapes and artefacts has started and is progressing according to plan, as per A2.3. The initial modells/tests are part of the foundation for the upcoming production of digital visualizations, transmedia storytelling and exhibitions for the heritage sites.\n\nPartners have progressed with community engagement and storytelling workshops, each with its regional adaptations and uniquenesses. This has eniriched the Partnership through the monthly online Partner Meeting by sharing experiences. \n\nThe project has communicated according to plan. The mini website has been finalized by the LP Communication Coordinator with input from all Partners. Relevant activities and news have been share in the website and in the project's Social Media platforms.\n\nAs Lead Partner, Jamtli coordinated and led online partner meetings.","Verdal , Røstad , Östersund,  Letterkenny, Tórshavn, Reykjavík, Egilsstadir","NO, SE, IE, FO, IS",{"$nulls":5},8]
["NPA0100009","Target Circular - Supporting Sustainable SMEs\nto Success","Building on the successful SSDM bridging project, Target Circular is a collaboration of circular economy clusters, business support organisations and researchers addressing the following challenges and needs of SMEs and advisors. \n\n\n\n1. New circular value chain development is hindered by difficulty accessing knowledge and resources. Target Circular will make these more accessible to SMEs and foster collaboration across value chains.\n\n2a. Supporting SME learning is a core advisor activity. Increased advisor impact can be achieved with digitalisation of this process by, for example, allowing videos, reading and exercises to be assigned to clients before advisor meetings. Clients are thus more prepared for advisor meetings and make more progress increasing the impact of client-advisor time significantly. Target Circular will develop digitalisation how-to guides for advisors, case studies and exchange good practices. 2b. Shared services such as marketing or payroll offered by business support agencies allow SMEs to focus on their core activities. However, offering additional services is a significant investment and assessing its likely value is a challenge. Learning from each other’s experience Target Circular will develop and trial 'how to' guides and case studies assessing demand for and designing effective shared services.\n\n\n\n3. Randomized controlled trials with 754 start-ups published by Camuffo et al (2020, 2021) reported increased survival, turnover and employee numbers from advising SMEs to assess their decisions like a scientist may assess a research question. Target Circular will create, demonstrate, and disseminate supporting materials using this novel approach. Training to advisors and policy makers wishing to adopt this approach, and the associated evidence-based policy will also be provided.\n\nAddressing these challenges and opportunities all have the collective aim of increasing the success of sustainable SMEs in the NPA area.","2023-01-01","2025-12-31","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","024 Advanced support services for SMEs and groups of SMEs (including management, marketing and design services)","N",1411829.8,"ERDF",665856.75,65,"The project's first online meeting was on January 25th and began work on all 3 work packages culminating in the first in-person meeting in June 2023 hosted in Kokkola by Centria University and Kosek - the highlight of period 1. At this meeting, all the partners met in person for the first time and delved deeply into the common challenges and opportunities Target Circular is addressing. \n\nWork package 1 discussed which new tools for advisors of circular businesses should be developed.  In work package 2, creating resources for business advisors regarding shared service provision and digitalising client learning was introduced and discussed with partners and relevant tasks were set for partners for the remainder of 2023. This included survey questions and interviews to gain context on both topics. It became clear during these discussions that partner BSOs faced many common challenges and opportunities that the work package could address.\n\nWork package 3 developed and piloted new evidence-based methods of business support. This involved updating the materials created during the SSDM bridging project in light of the lessons learned during SSDM and incorporating new research published in April 2023 which provided even more detail on how to maximise entrepreneurial success from training programs.\nThis period of the project was about creating and exploring the content areas and a pilot of some of these materials in Finland. \n\nIn WP1 the development of new tools for advisors of circular businesses led by PP2 Centria gained pace. \n\n2.The Ludgate (PP3) lead work package 2 creating resources for business advisors regarding shared service provision and digitalising client learning.\n3. MTU led work package 3 developing and piloting new evidence-based methods of business support. This involved supporting KOSEK (PP7) pilot novel business support approaches with clients in Finland.\n4. Finally, 4 online project meetings and began organising the in\nperson meeting planned February 2024 in Cork (period 3).\n\nDuring Period 3, the Target Circular project saw significant collaborative progress across all partners, with key developments in piloting new methodologies, creating shared learning resources, and engaging SMEs and business support organisations (BSOs). A transnational partner meeting was hosted in Cork, Ireland in March 2024, fostering further alignment between partners.\n\nHighlights:\nMTU (Lead Partner) and the Ludgate Hub organised and hosted the Cork partner meeting and led WP3 activities including piloting evidence-based SME support approaches.\n\nLudgate led the development of a Canvas LMS course under WP2.\nCentria completed a material flow mapping study and conducted SME workshops in Finland, contributing to WP1 and WP3.\n\nSSNV took charge of setting up the project's NPA webpage, establishing a dedicated online presence\nfor project updates and resources. Furthermore, SSNV began preparing to host the upcoming\nphysical project meeting in Iceland (period 4).\n","Tromsø, Kokkola, Hvammstangi, Skibbereen, Cork","NO, FI, IS, IE",{"$nulls":5},6]
["NPA0400109","Textile and Habiliment Reuse for the Environment and NPA Area Development","Textile wastes are a significant contributor to landfill and fast fashion is now recognised as having an unacceptable carbon footprint, therefore, there is an urgent need for transition to an environmentally and socially responsible circular model in the sector. This is particularly challenging for the NPA region as sparsely populated areas result in long waste transport distances with limited volumes of valuable waste fractions that could be recycled. This project aims to address these common territorial challenges and seeks to explore the feasibility of textile reuse and recycling across the region. This exploratory study will take cognisance of the challenges waste companies in the region face in meeting the national and international goals that are set for material recycling and lowering emissions from handling the waste. While recent technology advancements have made textile recycling technically feasible cutting-edge waste facilities are expensive and require a critical volume of waste to be economically sustainable and therefore not easily adopted in the NPA region. The THREAD project will conduct an analysis on best available technology (BAT) with the specific needs of the NPA region used to assess the technologies and therefore through a number of direct stakeholder/industry experts/municipalities consultations, stakeholder mapping, feasibility studies and desktop research, the potential for solutions in textile waste management would be assessed. The THREAD project will contribute to NPA overall strategy, to strengthen resource sufficiency in NPA communities.","2023-06-01","2023-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","072 Use of recycled materials as raw materials compliant with the efficiency criteria","N",49999.96,"Other, ERDF",22215.33,65,"The THREAD project was targeted to explore the common territorial challenges and preliminary investigate the feasibility of textile reuse and recycling in the NPA region. As a result of the project activities, a market analysis of the textile waste sector was carried out. This feasibility study outlines the volumes of textile waste, available processing capacity, logistical routes, and end of life. Additionally, the project provided an overview of the current technology solutions in textile waste recycling and mapped alternative technologies that could be further investigated and potentially adapted in the NPA region. The project fully reached its objectives. \nThe THREAD project had 2 face-to-face meetings and 37 online meetings through the life of the project involving not only the project partners but also project stakeholders (12 project partner meetings and 25 online meetings with the project stakeholders). The established collaborative framework was pivotal for building the knowledge about textiles and textile waste. \nThroughout the project, each partner country identified the realities and challenges of their region. The value in transnational approach was proven to have benefits as it identified that some territories were ahead of others in some aspects of waste management, textile waste reuse and social inclusion activities in textile collection. It confirmed that there were learnings to be gained from other territories, as well as a willingness by those who were ahead to continue to improve on the status quo in their territory. \nInformation on technologies that could help assist and streamline textile waste collection and sorting were gathered – from both the existing partners knowledge as well as reaching out to stakeholder within the partnership area. For instance, the partners learned of\n-\tScanning technologies that can assist with sorting of the mix of materials in textile waste\n-\tDigital devices that can alert as to when collection containers are full (sensors) – or indeed empty – which can help both the general public in terms of disposing of their waste and collection companies to optimise waste transport.  \n-\tWaste containers with moisture sensors that can assist with reducing collected textile items getting spoiled. \n-\tThe resource requirements for the textile collection and sorting locally (labour and infrastructure requirements)\nAll partners reached out to stakeholders within their countries and beyond. Other stakeholders’ inputs, backed up and supported the challenges that the project alluded to in the beginning, and a rationale for a further larger project began to emerge. The knowledge exchange underlines the projects commitment to cross-border cooperation and shared learning. \nA number of common challenges and opportunities emerged across the regions. These were:\n-\tLack of education and awareness amongst citizens – both in relation to sorting and disposing of textile waste at a household level – as well as an awareness of the lifecycle of textiles and what happens to post-consumer waste. \n-\tLack of skills amongst general public which limits people’s ability to participate in circularity. \n-\tOpportunities for Circularity to keep textiles in circulation for longer\n-\tOpportunities for Community engagement in relation to upcycling, skill sharing, practical and hands on tasks in relation to collection and sorting. \n-\tAn interest in exploring alternative applications of textile waste that may provide social enterprise or business opportunities in the region. \nThe preparatory project resulted in preparation of the regular project proposal which involved 9 partners from 5 countries, including Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, and Ireland. \nThe project has achieved the significant milestones with a shared vison for a more sustainable future where we handle textiles in a circular economy. The project reached its objective by supporting a platform where partners could have an open dialogue, learn, and share knowledge about textiles and textile waste. \n","Roscommon , Tromsø, Kajaani","IE, NO, FI",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0700184","Self Management of Health and Wellbeing in Rural Areas","The vision is to improve access to culturally sensitive and appropriate health and well-being self-management services in rural areas in the NPA region. \n\nCulturally sensitive and appropriate services refers to services that are designed and implemented with a deep respect for different cultures and their values, beliefs, and customs. These services aim to ensure that individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds are treated with fairness, dignity, and respect, while also addressing their unique needs and preferences.\n\nThe project will focus on the following 3 target groups: \n1) Ukrainian refugees who have arrived in Ireland since the beginning of the conflict\n2) SAMI population in remote and rural settings \n3) Ageing population living independently in remote, rural and isolated Icelandic areas and need to travel to access healthcare services\n\nThe common thread is one of marginalisation, disconnection, disempowerment and low levels of trust and understanding.","2024-09-01","2027-08-31","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.2. Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","018 IT services and applications for digital skills and digital inclusion","N",1018275.83,"ERDF",531925.4300000001,65,"GMC has identified & tested  \"Roadmap for Service Innovation\" as a successful guide for digital health service implementation, which will be applied in NPA SelfCare. However, the guide does not take into account the necessary actions to establish culturally appropriate services, which is the overall objective for NPA SelfCare to develop.\n\nThe WP1 specific objective is to create a foundation to develop culturally sensitive appropriate self-managed health and well-being services by:\n\n1) Conduct a project kick-off to align plans, roles, responsibilities, risk evaluation, budget and reporting.\n2) Further develop the mapping of existing distance spanning solutions.\n3) Perform 5 or more interviews with each target group to identify challenges and needs, then match these with digital solutions.\n4) Conduct 2 Retrospectives – 10 learnings and insights from \"insight and anchoring\" activities.\n5) Explore the gains, build the right team, identify stakeholders and anchor, map relevant projects.\nWP2 specific objective is to promote idea generation in order to develop solid service models for pilot in WP3. This will involve activties such as:\n\n1) Engaging with target groups in structured way through co-creation workshops\n2) Develop methods to measuament outcomes\n3) Design a flexible and iterative pilot approach in order to adapt to unforeseen circumstances\n4) Build a service model design v.1 based on knowledge collected from stakeholder discussions\nThe WP3 specific objective will be to develop and prepare 3 pilot sites (Iceland, Ireland, Sweden) and perform iterative test activities of service model and distance spanning digital solution, with real users and validate the feasibility and acceptance of the digital solution using parameters like: accessibility, basic functionality, user engagement, accuracy, repeatability, safety, security and adaptability of the digital system.\n\nFollowing institutions will be involved to address RCO - 14 supported to develop digital services, products and processes\n\n1.Region Västerbotten – (Centre for Rural Medicine)\n2. Iceland Health and Welfare Technology Cluster\n3. Department of Occupational Medicine and Public Health in the Faroese Hospital System\n4. Wellbeing services county of Lapland\n5. The Health Services Executive Ireland\n6. Nordic Welfare Centre","Akureyri, Castletroy, Storuman","IS, IE, SE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0700186","Building Bridges of Shared Capacity between Scientists, Policymakers, and Communities","The increasing disconnection among communities, scientists, and policymakers poses significant challenges to biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation. It is vital to bridge these gaps, particularly in rural communities where residents face pressing concerns about environmental degradation, climate change impacts, limited opportunities, and feelings of under-representation. CAP-SHARE, guided by the Global Biodiversity Framework, aims to jointly develop and implement a model to share capacity for the protection of local biodiversity and sustainable interaction with nature through projects that are community centered and focused on vulnerable stakeholders. Solutions to build cooperation and share knowledge will be demonstrated, benefiting communities, scientists, and policymakers. CAP-SHARE will build on the complementary ways NPA communities are approaching shared challenges, focusing on intergenerational community empowerment with respect for the diversity of NPA regions.","2024-08-01","2027-07-31","(VI-B_NPaA_ISO1) Strengthening the organisational capacity among NPA communities to make use of cooperation opportunities","ISO6.4. Enhance institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement macro-regional strategies and sea-basin strategies, as well as other territorial strategies (all strands)","PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governance","173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional context","N",794241.8,"Other, ERDF",251229.68,65,"This first period has set up strong foundations for our project with a detailed external communication plan; clear project management with organization of roles, tasks and internal information sharing; developing the partnership network; and organizing our first two online international online workshops. \n\nIn terms of internal communication, an effective plan has been developed with all leading partners, whereby we have regular digital meetings, a file sharing system through Google Drive and regular email communication amongst partners and associate partners. NMSI coordinated the publication of a dedicated webpage for the project with a schedule for upcoming and past events. The Interreg mini website is about to be published as of the end of period 1. \n\nRegarding social media communication, a plan and guidelines have been created for inclusive, efficient and well-communicated social media posts, including blogs and news for our websites and shorter social media posts for the CAP-SHARE LinkedIn page, mainly coordinated by the University of Lapland.  The aim is to create social media posts that align with and follow the social media guidelines of all partner organizations. The goal is to coordinate and develop a unified, strong foundation for social media publishing that serves all actors involved in the project. A platform is being maintained by Arctic Frontiers for registration of international events such as the workshops, to facilitate a streamlined and comprehensive registration system, and for the project partners to share further information regarding upcoming workshops. Both the CAP-SHARE communication manager and a university youth representative from UL represented the project at the Arctic Frontiers conference. NMSI represented the project at Youth Together for Arctic Futures meet-up in Reykjavík in October 2024 and the 2024 Nordic Symposium for Biodiversity Across the Natural and Social Sciences. Each partner has also shared content about the project following Interreg guidelines. Finally, AF coordinated the filming of an introduction video for the project at the Arctic Frontiers conference which is scheduled to be published in period 2. \n\nAt the end of this first reporting period, we have completed 2 of the 4 online workshops and we are currently working on the final one, as well as on our first face-to-face workshop in Finland. All partners worked collaboratively in organizing and moderating our first two online co-creation workshops. These workshops brought together youth, educators, scientists, community members, and more, with a mixed format of presentations and open dialogue. They are establishing a foundation for our strategy for building trust and collaboration through dialogue. NMSI led the first workshop, which focused on the importance of biodiversity action for regional and community development. UL led the second workshop, which focused on recognizing local and indigenous knowledge.  ","Rovaniemi, Tromsø, Reykjavík","FI, NO, IS",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0700166","Connected Technology to support the Health of the Working Population in Northern Remote Areas","NPA countries are facing work absenteeism and early retirement due to poor physical and mental health. Healthcare services that can help employees recover and get back to to work, such as occupational therapy/counselling, are currently under strain, difficult to access, expensive and underfunded. Tech2Heal aims to attain an enhanced comprehension of the reasons behind both absenteeism and early retirement due to poor wellbeing . A combination of qualitative/quantitative methods, and ubiquitous technology to monitor work-life will be used. Pilots will be implemented to validate solutions. Its ultimate goals are to help employees/self-employees to gain awareness to live healthier for longer; and propose suitable changes to work/health policies. Its multidisciplinary team of technicians/clinicians provides diverse range of expertise to explore these challenges. Our regions common problems will facilitate a shared development and implementation of solutions across the partner countries.","2024-10-01","2027-09-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.2. Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","016 Government ICT solutions, e-services, applications","N",1278446.85,"ERDF",671410.24,65,"Led by RVB this WP1 will build stakeholder groups of differing occupations and to assess their views on: \n\n- Current occupational health supports for mental and physical well being,\n- Attitudes to worker self managing preventative health care\n- Attitudes to wearable technology for physical and mental health assessment, possible cultural issues\n- Causes of absenteeism, such as ill-health etc.\n- Causes of early retirement, health related\n- Industry paying for schemes to improve health outcomes and productivity\n\nOther objectives include: \n- Review of relevant projects national and at the EU projects  \n- Assess the working conditions of the chosen occupations \n- Review the occupational health structures of the partner nations – public and private\n- Assess how occupational health stakeholders would adopt preventative health wearable technologies\n\nTech2Heal aim to, with input of information as listed above, to develop roadmaps for 3 services to be implemented for improved workers health.\nLed by UOULO WP2 will develop Proof of Concept (PoC) pilots covering several occupational healthcare use cases in partner countries with varying stakeholder groups. Implementation, data collection and analysis are implemented with novel technologies like wearable sensors. \nLed by NSE the objective of WP3 is to quantify how the work carried out by the review of WP1, and pilot designs and implementations in WP2, has led to successful solutions, whereby end users supported by innovative wearable technology become more aware of their physical and mental health, and take steps to lead a healthier lifestyle. These solutions based on remote monitoring technology and evaluation platforms will also provide convenience and motivation to end users. This WP will focus on compiling all the findings of the pilots, the results of the data analyses, and quantifying the pilots' success. The key outcome will be to develop a holistic view of all the results and their impact on the health of workers, together with the potential improved productivity of public and private sector businesses. The significant results and conclusions and how they will improve work/health-related policies will be identified and published in a white paper as policy change recommendations.\n\n","Tromsø, Oulu, Storuman, Letterkenny","NO, FI, SE, IE",{"$nulls":5},5]
["NPA0700178","Attract skills and talent through Regional Innovation Capacity insights","Vibrant regional innovation ecosystems as an attractor for talent and skills is our common need. In addition to contributing to the competitiveness of our regions, innovation ecosystems create a trickle-down effect benefiting all. Measuring the ability of innovation ecosystems is necessary because it provides useful quantifiable data to understand its current state and identify areas for enhancement. The main target group is policymakers, however, such measurements can inform other public and private bodies to multiply their efforts for the common good.\n\nDeveloped by Region Västerbotten, METRIC is a measurement tool we will develop further. With the involvement of key stakeholders, indicators for fast demonstrations are selected based on regional relevance and data availability. A systematic process to adapt and transfer METRIC will be part of the action plan for full-scale measurement and communication. Throughout the project, capacity to evaluate innovation ecosystems is built.","2024-10-01","2026-03-31","(VI-B_NPaA_ISO1) Strengthening the organisational capacity among NPA communities to make use of cooperation opportunities","ISO6.4. Enhance institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement macro-regional strategies and sea-basin strategies, as well as other territorial strategies (all strands)","PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governance","173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional context","N",199978,"ERDF",129985.7,65,"WP1 aims to create a baseline understanding of regional capacity and skill needs to achieve regionally-relevant green and just transition. This is done by conducting a comprehensive regional innovation ecosystem analysis with key actors and resources to understand each regional context, stakeholder landscape, and development lifecycles (D.1.1.1). Regional needs and objectives related to attracting and retaining talent and skills are jointly identified (D.1.3.1) as well as the green and just transition needs and activities of public actors (D.1.2.1). Relevant and accurate data sources are identified (D.1.4.1) and a limited number of the most relevant out of the 11 innovation dimension's 66 indicators are chosen (D.1.5.1) for the fast demonstration in WP2. Results from the fast demonstration are looped back into WP1 to jointly developed solutions, a key milestone. WP2 supports these activities by facilitating capacity building and learning through workshops and sessions.\nWP2 aims to facilitate the capacity building and joint learning how to develop systematic and agile evaluation processes as a way for organizations to cooperate. Through joint dialogues online and in person, partners and stakeholders involved in evaluating innovation ability gather to share good practices (D.2.1.1, D.2.1.2) to be integrated into the jointly developed solutions. \n\nDeeper knowledge is extracted in co-creative sessions related to developing evaluation methods and tools. The capacity that is built is used in WP3 to transfer and adapt jointly developed solutions to each region’s specifications and ensure its long-term impactful uptake. (D.2.2.1)\n\nThe key milestone is the fast demonstrations of each region’s chosen METRIC indicators, selected for prioritized relevance based on regional skill and talent needs and green and just transition alignment. The result report (D.2.3.1) is used in WP3 for transferability and adaptability into jointly developed strategies/action plans. \nBased on WP2 fast demonstration results and input from WP1 regional contextual understanding (needed skills and green and just transition activities), WP3 leads the transferability and adaptability of the evaluation method/tool action plans to be scaled up. This ASTRIC milestone is the joint creation of the action plans in the form of a conceptual framework and steps to follow to adapt the other METRIC indicators for regionally specific use, integration, and further development. (D.3.2.1) \n\nCreating long-term impact (D.3.1.1) from the jointly developed solutions for more effective strategy and policy making is the goal for uptake. There are also consortia-wide joint collaboration action plans (D.3.3.2). Simultaneously, outreach efforts are strengthened and project results are disseminated, exploring interest in further development and uptake. (D.3.3.1)","Silgo, Roscommon, Kuopio, Umeå","IE, FI, SE",{"$nulls":5},4]
["NPA0700172","Sewage management in cold and sparsely populated regions: solutions for the Arctic in view of a changing climate and emerging contaminants","Variable wastewater (WW) management approaches are used in Arctic countries. They differ by the type of systems used and the level of environmental and health protection they provide. Several factors, such as regional climate and geology or the history and culture of a region, can affect the suitability of management solutions. The project aims to compile and create information on the type, efficiency, and properties of treatment options in cold and sparsely populated regions. The project also fills the information gap on the occurrence of WW-related emerging contaminants in receiving waters near Arctic settlements. The goal is to promote the exchange of knowledge and practical experiences on WW management solutions providing regional and local stakeholders with the information needed to assess and change practices if needed. The project aims for enhanced WW management in changing climate and variable geographic conditions for the resilience and health of communities.","2024-10-01","2027-09-30","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","061 Risk prevention and management of non-climate related natural risks (for example earthquakes) and risks linked to human activities (for example technological accidents), including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches","N",1455231.05,"Other, ERDF",543195.53,65,"There is a lack of information on the functioning and efficiency of wastewater treatment (WW) solutions suitable for sparsely populated areas, capable of being implemented and withstanding harsh cold climate conditions. Even for commonly used systems in parts of the Arctic (e.g., septic tanks), data are scarce regarding their environmental load in terms of nutrients but especially for micropollutants (pharmaceuticals, PFAS etc.). The objective is to compile existing data and to create additional data on the type, efficiency, and properties of WW treatment options including nature-based solutions (NBS). The goal is to elucidate the efficiency of solutions for the removal of micropollutants and provide information about the environmental load for WP2. A common monitoring plan among partners and sites will be implemented throughout the project. Inflow (when possible) and outflow samples of treatment will be analysed for organics, nitrogen, phosphorous, solids, and micropollutants.\nCurrently, the role of wastewater management solutions as sources of emerging micropollutants (e.g. pharmaceuticals, PFAS) to aquatic ecosystems in the Arctic region is unclear as this has hardly been explored. WP2 aims to produce data on the occurrence of wastewater-related emerging contaminants in different wastewater recipients (the sea, lakes, streams) near settlements affected by wastewater discharge from different treatment solutions. Sites will be selected based on the short-listed solutions monitored in WP1. The goal is to investigate how changes to the current WW treatment solution can affect the WW-derived environmental load and if these changes would be likely to have a measurable impact on the recipient water bodies given other possible sources. An additional objective of WP2 is to produce data on the emissions of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) linked to WW discharge and if evidence of the studied ARGs can be found in the receiving aquatic environment. \nThe aim of WP 3 is to meet the critical need for information on which wastewater treatment solutions are appropriate and efficient in sparsely populated areas in consideration of the environmental loads and impacts, local infrastructural and climatic conditions, user-friendliness, social acceptance and level of expertise needed for implementation and maintenance. WP3 aims to fill the information requirements by compiling technical documentation (including user experience) on the different wastewater treatment solutions applied in the Arctic region, and by disseminating this information in a catalogue   in an easily comprehensible manner. This will include the conclusions drawn from the data on efficiency and environmental loads gathered in WPs 1 and 2. User experience will be compiled throughout the project during two of three planned workshops involving practitioners and authorities as core dialogue events.","Luleå, Reykjavík, Sisimiut, Oulu","SE, IS, GL, FI",{"$nulls":5},5]
["NPA0700174","Textile and Habiliment Reuse for the Environment and NPA Area Development","THREADs focuses on a holistic approach to textile waste management as well as educating & innovating at the design & post-consumer phase. It follows a preparatory project which focused on the challenges faced by the NPA region with regards long transport distances, growing textile consumption & limited textile reuse. Capitalising on the benefits of working transnationally towards solutions & innovations in each sphere, activities include piloting state of the art technologies, education, awareness raising & skills transfer. \nProjected Results:\n-\tAdoption of smart waste collection for resource efficiency & sustainable textile handling practices across borders.\n-\tIncreased implementation of circular practices from designers through to consumers ensuring resource sufficiency. \n-\tEnhanced Social inclusion activities.\n-\tNew business model implementation \nTarget groups: waste management stakeholders, consumers, designers, craftspeople, educators, disadvantaged groups and social enterprises.","2024-10-01","2027-09-30","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","072 Use of recycled materials as raw materials compliant with the efficiency criteria","N",1505194.8,"Other, ERDF",774576.4,65,"The specific objective is to develop or improve textile waste collection and sorting systems in the NPA region. THREADs addresses aspects of collection, sorting and treatment of post-consumer textile waste and focuses on knowledge gathering, technology/process development and mapping of facilities in the interest of municipalities and other stakeholders sorting or treating the collected textile materials for reuse and recycling. The main goal is to develop a collaborative approach towards sustainable textile waste management in the NPA region while promoting the transition to the circular textile and fashion industries. This is achieved via the collaborative research, joint pilots, and new established partnerships. THREADs is aimed at improving the quality of collected post-consumer textile waste by providing guidance on the factors influencing the quality of discarded waste and organising communication activities to increase environmental awareness. \n\nThe objectives are: \n-to demonstrate how circular products, closed loop systems & technologies for resource sufficiency can be designed, implemented & scaled in the industry. This is achieved through the Re-imagining of products with considerations given to up-coming regulations (EPR), which address remanufacturing & recycling capabilities of textiles as a high priority.\n\n-to strengthen the transfer of innovation results and facilitate the emergence of new circular products, services, and processes through transnational collaboration & a quadruple helix approach, engaging industry, educational providers, policy makers, citizens & social enterprises (SE).\n\n-to educate & incentivise designers & consumers (considered users and sources of knowledge in the innovation process) to re-imagine existing textile resources such as unsold products, post-production & post-consumer waste, increasing the active lifespan of products, adopting circular systems & identifying new business opportunities. \nWP objectives are:\n-To enhance opportunities of existing and/or new SEs, as well as embedding and showcasing their role. This elevates their real and potential impact in the textile circularity space in NPA communities and regions. Challenges and opportunities identified through consultation will be addressed in an interactive, transnational series of events and workshops. \n\n-To capitilise on the unique role SEs can play in fostering sustainability, diversity and inclusiveness in NPA region communities and regions. Recognising that distinct groups of people e.g. young people and those who are more disadvantaged in communities such as long-term unemployed, people with disabilities, minorities, immigrants – have much to contribute as well as to gain. A set of mutually beneficial activities that encourage participation from a broad spectrum of people will also benefit the SEs. \n \n-To highlight upscale opportunities for SEs in the textile space and provide direction for achieving this.  ","Luleå, Blönduós, Limerick, Borås, Ballaghaderreen, Tromsø, Oulu, Kittilä, Kajaani","SE, IS, IE, NO, FI",{"$nulls":5},9]
["NPA0200057","Impact of energy retrofits on indoor environmental quality and hygrothermal performance of the buildings in different climate scenarios","Residential building stock energy retrofits play a key role in EU climate actions. The impacts of these retrofits on indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and occupant comfort need to be assessed to inform future renovation programmes. Both European and national housing surveys have reported housing quality problems linked to IEQ and occupant health. There is a continued need to engage SMEs and other stakeholders in the monitoring of retrofit techniques and their impact on IEQ, and hygrothermal performance of building structures, to provide sustainable and healthy buildings. The RIAQ project will inform and engage SMEs, building stakeholders, and occupants about common protocols for an IEQ assessment, and assess the potential for improving IEQ along with energy efficiency and improving the resistance of buildings in the changing climate. The RIAQ project will present further evidence for the potential in improving IEQ in the current residential building stock. The RIAQ develops the assessment protocol and promotes sustainable retrofit techniques, supporting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy, climate change adaptation, and energy efficiency of retrofitted buildings. The RIAQ will sought to accelerate the ability of peripheral communities, SMEs, and national and international inspection services to create solutions for energy retrofits. It will connect SMEs interested in generating sustainable energy retrofit solutions, and give them greater insight into emerging technologies, upcycling opportunities, and product development strategies, including product sustainability narratives centred on the circular economy. Drawing on the expert connections developed during RIAQ, the project will also inform and engage SMEs, stakeholders, and communities about the relevant legislation and policies which are taking shape around national and transnational circular economy initiatives.","2022-12-01","2023-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.1. Promoting energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","046 Support to entities that provide services contributing to the low carbon economy and to resilience to climate change, including awareness-raising measures","N",98831.22,"ERDF",64240.29,65,"The preparatory project has effectively laid the groundwork for our main project application. Through documentation, we have successfully captured the evolution of our project idea and the formation of a collaborative and dynamic partnership.\nA key achievement lies in the documentation of project-specific deliverables. We have studied retrofit approaches, delving into the intricacies of energy, thermal and hygrothermal performance and indoor air quality (IAQ), and design features within a pilot sample of homes in both Ireland and Finland. This exploration serves as a foundation for our larger initiative.\nA major milestone is the initiation of a pilot project, where we've undertaken the harmonization of protocols for consistent evaluation of IAQ. This standardized approach ensured a robust methodology for assessing the performance of buildings both before and after retrofit. The data collected from total of five houses, out of which four were pre-retrofit and one post-retrofit, provided valuable insights that informed our main project's strategic direction. \nThe preparatory project provided an opportunity for the team to develop new knowledge and skills. One example is the set up required to collect an indoor pollutant, Acrolein, which is a volatile organic chemical (VOC) for which further indoor exposure data are required. Indoor acrolein sources include smoking and wood combustion, burning incense, and building materials. There is some evidence that the use of wood burning stoves could become popular across European homes as a secondary heating source in energy retrofits, therefore it is timely to evaluate the impact of their use on indoor acrolein concentrations. Exposure to acrolein can cause eye and respiratory irritation (short term), while carcinogenicity effects are uncertain and require further study.  Acrolein is very difficult to measure, therefore a new collaboration was established with the Fraunhofer Institute fr. Wood research in Germany, who assisted the team develop competency in this area.  Samples for acrolein were collected according to recommended protocols acquired from Germany, where the samples were sent for analyses.  \nThe team also developed new knowledge and skills regarding how to collect indoor dust samples for microbial analysis, which was conducted in three pilot homes in Finland. Due to time constraints, the analyses results were not obtained, but the necessary field protocols were discussed and harmonized in collaboration with National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Environmental Health in Kuopio Finland, with whom we also established a continuing partnership. \nThe collaboration between Ireland and Finland in this preparatory phase has added significant value. By combining expertise and perspectives from diverse backgrounds, we have cultivated a rich pool of knowledge. This synergy not only enhanced the credibility of our project but also fostered a collective approach toward addressing shared challenges in retrofitting and building sustainability.\nThe preparatory project has set a solid foundation, demonstrating our commitment to innovation, collaboration, the pursuit of sustainable solutions, outreach, networking, and forming new partnerships. This initial phase of work propels us forward with confidence as we embark on the larger endeavor outlined in the main project application.","Galway, Oulu","IE, FI",{"$nulls":5},2]
["NPA0600150","Digital and Technological Social and Healthcare Education in Remote areas - Challenges and Opportunities","Delivery of social and health care education and practice is facing low funding, scarcity of students and staff, and overloaded demand for services. This has impacted the way of educating. There is a need for more cost-effective methods, e.g., more technological-driven opportunities. It is not clear what kinds of technologies can be adopted in practice to enhance professional praxis. This is worse in rural areas which face long distances, and with a few educational institutions to educate professionals. \n\nThe aim is to build a novel view regarding how technologies can enhance professional delivery and education of social and health care. This project enables us to reach relevant stakeholders using bottom-up and data-driven approaches. Outputs are key insights regarding all the relevant stakeholders, which will be used to identify the teaching strategies and the technologies with the most potential in the NPA. Also, this strengthens the consortium to apply for a full project.","2023-12-01","2024-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.2. Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","016 Government ICT solutions, e-services, applications","N",99846.77,"ERDF",64900.39,65,"This RemoTED project has offered a valuable time for the partners to collaborate, complete the joint tasks towards the aims, including the main project design. Our collaboration holds mutual understanding, respect and trust among all partners: leading partner Lapland University of Applied Sciences (Lapland UAS), Karelia University of Applied Sciences (Karelia UAS), and Atlantic Technology University (ATU). \n\nOur collaboration resulted in the creation and submission of the main project proposal, and we got a new partner into our consortium: University of Iceland (UI). The main project creation started close collaboration in this new consortium. Additionally, the consortium includes five associate partners from the field of social, health and rehabilitation work. In the developed work, all partners', incl. associate partners', perspectives and needs have been taken into account and included into the main project aims maintaining practice-based work.\n\nMoreover, this RemoTED project has provided more comprehensive knowledge, but also confidence among partners in the field of digitization and technology in social an health care. This was not only achieved in the main project design, but important and essential work has been conducted in creating the deliverables: literature review, stakeholder report, and technology reports. These deliverables provided us with an opportunity to learn from the literature deeply, and collaborate with social and health care stakeholders, and technology organizations. This component, the literature and practice work, provided an essential platform for RemoTED partners to deepen our knowledge as well as enhanced our transnational co-operation skills. It also created an opportunity to comprehensively understand the current situation of practice regarding this topic, and this knowledge was utilized in the development work of the main project. The gathered information throughout the joint work, but also through the creation of the deliverables using a bottom-up approach, provided an opportunity to create a main project that is practice-oriented, i.e. a needs-led project.\n\nRemoTED meetings were efficient, collaborative, and we achieved great, effective co-operation. Moreover, we got to know each others well during the completion of the RemoTED tasks and whole project. Results of the deliverables indicate that there is a lack of staffing, lack of financial resources to implement new technology in social and health work, lack of time during work days to learn new technology and solutions, and the ability to use technology. Also, it appears, that digitization skills vary among professionals and stakeholders. \n\nKeeping in mind this need the main project was created. RemoTED got advocacy for our project idea from stakeholders, they thought our idea was important, up-to-date and will empower their service delivery in the long run. There must be new solutions to promote more hands on training of tech and digitization to implement innovations. However, the skill and competence expectations and requirements for digitization and technology of social and health care professionals are different in sparsely populated areas than in densely populated areas. This is very important issue to consider, especially in remote areas, such as in Finland and Ireland.\n\nStill, the basic computing skills are essential to know first before applying specialized applications or equipment. We noticed there is a need for our preparatory project and this content was considered in the design of the main project, which has been built to meet the needs of practice in remote areas. The data collection and background surveys in RemoTED supported the overall need for developing the services in social and health care in sparsely populated areas in the name of training and gaining more knowledge.\n\nAdditionally, RemoTED project has been presented in webpages, social media and events in Finland and Ireland that reached out social and health care professionals, educators, and stakeholders. Moreover, we have met several potential partners and RemoTED project has been widely communicated.\n","Letterkenny, Joensuu, Kemi","IE, FI",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0600152","Mission-oriented innovation towards digital and green transitions in the NPA communities","MINDSET will enhance the innovation capacity in the NPA regions. According to OECD (2021) there is a need for new policy approaches to address economic growth, societal wellbeing and global challenges. Mission Oriented Innovation (MOI) is an emerging field to give a better strategic and holistic orientation of Science, Technology and Innovation.\n\nThe use of Mission Oriented Innovation to address societal challenges necessitates a dual approach, involving both top-down and bottom-up strategies, which draw attention to methodological approaches such as system innovation, design thinking and open innovation. In the context of NPA regions, this approach presents unique challenges:\n- Representation Challenges: NPA regions, characterized by unique conditions and circumstances, face difficulties in ensuring comprehensive representation in MOI efforts. However, they benefit from historically strong collaboration within the Arctic region and robust local partnerships.\n- Disparities in Resources: NPA regions encounter significant disparities in accessing critical resources such as key stakeholders, venture capital, research centers, and other assets typically concentrated in urban centers.\n- Diverse MOI Models: Each country within NPA regions has developed distinct MOI models, making transnational collaboration complex and challenging due to differences in approach and methodology.\n\nThe instruments and efforts currently used in the EU show that MOI approaches are increasingly promoted and tested. Similarly, the member states have made their own interpretations and developed unique MOI models. Many of these efforts will transform the ways of identifying and resolving societal challenges. They require extensive cross-disciplinary collaboration, engagement of relevant stakeholders and coordination of multiple projects. While MOI approaches are being promoted and tested in the European Union, they have had limited impact at the local or regional level. It emphasizes the need to adapt MOI approaches to suit NPA regions and develop an operational model tailored to their specific conditions and challenges. MINDSET will investigate existing MOI-models and recommend an appropriate MOI suitable for transnational NPA collaboration.\n \nMINDSET’s overall objective is to jointly develop a main project proposal to apply mission-oriented innovation (MOI) as the way to address major challenges of NPA regions by assessing suitable MOI approaches and enabling conditions, involving the relevant stakeholders from the participant and other NPA regions to define the scenarios to be addressed by the implementation of the concrete missions in the main project.\n\nThe target groups that will benefit from this work are local and regional public authorities from the 3 participating and other NPA regions, sectoral agencies, universities and research organisations and international organisations such as EEIG.\n \nMission-oriented innovation aims to respond to one or several of the grand societal challenges (missions) and create public value to society. Due to the severity, extent and complexity of missions, it makes it impossible for an individual organization or region to address grand challenges. Transnational collaboration in NPA communities is needed to create missions and tackle the pressing challenges.\n\nIn NPA-areas communities, transnational collaboration is particularly necessary to create and address these missions due to their unique challenges. Transnational cooperation is crucial for MOI because it enables a more comprehensive and informed approach to addressing grand societal challenges by pooling knowledge and expertise and providing added value in terms of:\n- Aggregated Knowledge: Transnational collaboration allows partners to access a broader range of knowledge and experiences that may be limited or unavailable within their own regions. This includes diverse approaches to mission-oriented innovation (MOI), insights into drivers and support structures in the public sector, various tools and methods, and the development of essential skills and capacities.\n- Improved Context Analysis: By assessing the context on a transnational level, it becomes possible to develop approaches and solutions that consider all aspects of the missions. This holistic perspective may reveal critical insights that might not have been identified when focusing solely on a local or regional basis.\n\nMINDSET tackles an emerging concept as there is Mission-oriented innovation. Although some countries have started to adopt it and create some missions, this concept is still in a very incipient stage. Furthermore, at regional and local levels MOI haven’t been explored yet.","2023-12-01","2024-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","029 Research and innovation processes, technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and universities, focusing on the low carbon economy, resilience and adaptation to climate change","N",99807.5,"ERDF",64874.87,65,"The MINDSET project has served to better understand the novel concept of Mission-Oriented-Innovation (MOI) and, more important, what needs to be put in place to implement it in a way that enables NPA territories to address their societal challenges.\n\nThe project has fully reached its main objective, that was the submission of a main project application making use of the work carried out in the preparatory phase.\n\nTo achieve it, the 3 participant partners have jointly collaborated, aggregating their knowledge, connections and engaging with relevant stakeholders throughout all the project.\n\nThe work carried out was organised in 3 main steps:\n1) Assessment of MOI in the NPA area \n2) Identification and definition of suitable scenarios where to apply MOI\n3) Preparation and submission of main project application\n\nThe MOI assessment in the NPA served to: 1) better understand the MOI concept and its different types and; 2) make a revision of existing MOI experiences in the NPA. In relation to this second point, 4 NPA countries were reviewed: Finland, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. The analysis brought the following findings:\n- MOI is still in a very early stage with only few initiatives in the countries reviewed. Furthermore, most of the initiatives are run at national levels with no or very limited impact at regional/local level\n- A need to integrate bottom-up approaches\n- The adequacy of introducing regional mission-oriented innovation (RegMOI) approaches to draw from or align with the global, EU-level or national MOI aspirations.\n\nConsidering all these findings, the MINDSET partners started the work of identifying suitable scenarios where to apply MOI to address societal challenges in the participant territories. The starting point considered 9 major societal challenges and partners made an exercise to identify which ones could be addressed in the main project. As a result, 3 societal challenges were selected and subsequent scenarios were described:\n- Skills development (Sweden)\n- Climate change action (Ireland)\n- Housing and public real estate (Finland)\n\nThese scenarios served as the basis to prepare the main project application as the final step of the project involving 7 additional organisations (partners and associated partners).","Mikkeli, Umeå, Letterkenny","FI, SE, IE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0800202","Innovation Through Gamification Solutions","The \"Innovation through Gamified Solutions (InnoGS)\" project addresses regional and rural development by tackling common challenges like youth and underrepresented group integration, skill shortages, and talent retention. InnoGS focuses on digitalization and gamified approaches, which make activities for users engaging and motivating, usable to benefit public and private sectors.\n\nPilots create vibrant place-based communities in the forms of innovation ecosystems (regional “Digital Innovation DIstricts”, hubs, clusters) provide a physical co-creation space for end users and are scaled internationally.\n\nKey outputs include skill development programs, gamified solutions uptaken for public authorities and industries, and improved digital infrastructure. A transnational approach enables knowledge sharing and scalability of solutions, ensuring InnoGS’ benefits are transferable. This collaboration will enhance regional resilience and boost economic and social opportunities for rural areas.","2025-03-01","2028-02-29","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.2. Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","018 IT services and applications for digital skills and digital inclusion","N",1603953.39,"ERDF",938561.9300000001,65,"Objective\nWP1 aims to create innovation ecosystems comprised of innovation actors from public authorities, education and research organizations, businesses, and civil society. These ecosystems take the form of tailored place-based communities DIDs because each region has its own needs and unique innovation landscape. One ecosystem model cannot be copied and pasted, but good practices can be discovered and shared through designing and implementing pilots. \n\nImplementation\n4 pilots (RCO 84 and RCO 116 feed into RCR 104) in close collaboration with stakeholders and end users. Pilots address rural challenges partners are facing, which can be solved with thriving innovation ecosystems related to digital gamified solutions and creative gamification approaches. Partners are involved and observe progress to discover implementable good practices.\n\nMeasurable change\nIndicators of success include co-working spaces established and successful engagement of end users in long-term activities.\nObjective\nWP2 aims to ensure regional policy development and authorities support needs of place-based communities (regional DIDs) and enable scaling internationally (collaboration network platform, DID.EU) by bridging WP1 and WP3. WP2 creates awareness of the value of digital gamified solutions and provides connections to long-term integration of e.g. youth and underrepresented group solutions and co-working spaces for talents. WP2 is the base to develop digital services, products and processes for public institutions.\n\nImplementation\nWorkshops and investigative ideation sessions are held with stakeholders and end users. To raise awareness, webinars are provided to public authorities and traditional companies about the value of digital gamified solutions. Partners are involved and observe progress to discover implementable good practices.\n\nMeasurable change\nIndicators include policy recommendations uptaken and developed digital services, products and processes for public institutions.\nObjective\nWP3 aims to scale up the place-based communities Digital Innovation Districts (DIDs) to form international innovation ecosystems. The international DID is a platform hosting digital gamified solution good practices, a job marketplace for internships, gigs, and theses, and distributes educational courses for stakeholders by stakeholders. To create engaging and impactful DIDs, stakeholder research is conducted and implemented with end user tested pilots. \n\nImplementation\nMapping of current platforms, projects and initiatives ensures no repetition and only integration. Preferences of features and usability are identified and implemented in the pilot. Stakeholders create simultaneous events for digital solution ideas and educational material.\n\nMeasurable change\nIndicators include functional active DIDs connected to other channels, i.e. Discord and used by stakeholders (schools, public authorities) and end users (youths, unemployed individuals, upskillers) for long-term activities","Reykjavík, Nuuk, Kuopio, Galway, Skellefteå, Umeå","IS, GL, FI, IE, SE",{"$nulls":5},7]
["NPA0800200","Mission-oriented innovation towards digital and green transitions in the NPA communities","Mission-Oriented Innovation (MOI) is an emerging field giving a better strategic and holistic orientation of Science, Technology and Innovation to respond to grand societal challenges.\n\nIn the NPA, MOI initiatives only exist at national level and its impact at regional/local levels is very limited. The absence of bottom-up approaches is impeding the possibility to define and shape MOI to address societal challenges at local/regional level.\n\nMINDSET’s overall objective is to provide policy makers and other stakeholders from 3 NPA regions with the innovation capacity (or same conditions) to deal with societal challenges that are otherwise non-existing or only developed at a national and/or EU level. \n\nThis is done by introducing suitable Regional Mission-Oriented Innovation (RegMOI) approaches adapting and developing methods and tools to address interrelated challenges, such as skills development, climate change, and regional housing and public real estate, affecting NPA territories.","2025-03-01","2028-02-29","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","028 Technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and higher education sector","N",1370649.2,"ERDF",890921.98,65,"Prepare regional stakeholders from 3 NPA territories to introduce the novel concept of RegMOI as a new way of driving innovation suitable to address societal challenges affecting them as there are skills development, climate change and regional housing and public real estate in their territories by converting existing structures for problem solving (often silo-structures) to more cross-sectoral collaboration and system thinking.\nTest the effectiveness of RegMOI by applying it in the implementation of concrete missions addressing skills development, climate change and regional housing and public real estate challenges in 3 NPA territories.\nCreate the conditions to integrate RegMOI as a new innovation method to address major societal challenges, where local/regional stakeholders are empowered and play a significant role aligned with supra-level missions. This will be done by working in interplay between top-down and bottom-up activities, inviting cross-sectoral regional and local stakeholders working with appropriate methods and tools to achieve amplified positive long-term effects in relation to those major challenges addressed. ","Örnsköldsvik, Lifford, Mikkeli, Umeå, Letterkenny","SE, IE, FI",{"$nulls":5},5]
["NPA0800212","Boosting Continuity and Digitalisation of Rural Region Businesses","This project addresses critical challenges faced by businesses in rural areas of Ireland, Iceland, & Finland, where geographic isolation, aging populations, & declining business transfers threaten sustainability. Building on the Interreg NPA Eboost project, it offers an innovative approach to enhance business continuity & sustainability through digitalisation, focusing on strengthening digital skills & providing tailored support to boost competitiveness & facilitate business transfers.\n\nBOCOD responds to recent shifts in rural business environments, including changes in work-life balance, remote work, & the influence of AI. To thrive, rural businesses must adapt to new technologies and evolving expectations.\n\nKey outputs include a comprehensive analysis of the resource landscape (WP1), digital skills training (WP2), & resources for business continuity & transfers (WP3). Through transnational collaboration, the project will ensure rural businesses are prepared for future transitions.","2025-04-01","2028-03-31","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.2. Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","018 IT services and applications for digital skills and digital inclusion","N",1499593.92,"ERDF",974736.04,65,"The objective of this work package is to identify and map the current resources, opportunities, and challenges related to business continuity across partner areas, with a focus on digital & business transfer processes. This will provide an evidence-based understanding of factors impacting sustainable business succession and continuity planning. By identifying key challenges and opportunities, it will guide the design of tailored digital and business support strategies for SMEs, micro-businesses, and business support organisations (BSOs).\n\nA key element is user engagement during the discovery stage. Involving SMEs, micro businesses and BSOs, is crucial as it provides firsthand insights into their challenges and needs. This will help uncover hidden issues and validate assumptions, leading to better-targeted solutions that promote business continuity and succession. This will ensure the project’s next phases address real-world conditions, enabling more effective interventions. \nThe specific objective of this project work package is to enhance the digital readiness of SMEs, micro-businesses and BSOs by implementing training programs and digital pilot programs. By the end of the project, the goal is to equip businesses with the skills to adopt and implement digital tools and where relevant AI-driven business models, and therefore, promote the business continuity. Additionally, a digital training program will be developed for business advisors, ensuring they can effectively support rural businesses in their digital transformation. Measurable outcomes include the successful completion of the digital pilot programs by participating companies and the availability of online resources for digital tools and business models. This will lead to an increase in digital adoption among rural SMEs and micro-businesses, making them more competitive, resilient, and better prepared for potential business transfers. \nThe specific objective of this work package is to support new entrepreneurs and existing businesses effectively for successful business transfers and continuity planning. As a result, businesses will have a continuation plan and will be prepared well ahead for business transfer and they will be more saleable. \n\nRural SMEs are especially vulnerable of tailing away when business owners get older or otherwise need to stand down from their undertakings - it is not easy to find a successor in sparsely populated communities. This WP aims for tackling this issue by supporting long term planning for a business transfer and continuity, and by providing tools to increase the business resilience and saleability.","Ísafjörður , Egilsstaðir , Nivala, Joensuu, Tornio, Cork","IS, FI, IE",{"$nulls":5},6]
["NPA0800211","Retrofitting for Improved Air Quality: promoting sustainable and healthy homes","The RIAQ project addresses the critical challenge of improving energy efficiency in the Northern Periphery and Arctic region by enhancing indoor air quality (IAQ), hygrothermal performance, and occupant well-being in retrofitted homes. Aligned with EU climate goals, RIAQ will develop and disseminate practical tools, guidelines, and best practices for sustainable retrofitting. The project engages SMEs, policymakers, and occupants to ensure widespread adoption and compliance with relevant legislation. By fostering transnational collaboration, RIAQ leverages diverse regional expertise to create scalable solutions that support circular economy initiatives and drive long-term improvements in building sustainability and occupant health. The expected impact includes improved retrofit practices, enhanced IAQ, and strengthened connections among regional stakeholders, contributing to a healthier and more sustainable built environment.","2025-03-01","2028-02-29","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.1. Promoting energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","046 Support to entities that provide services contributing to the low carbon economy and to resilience to climate change, including awareness-raising measures","N",1496164.57,"Other, ERDF",861845.27,65,"The objective of WP1 is to establish a Strategic Coordination and Policy Framework that facilitates the implementation of energy-efficient, sustainable, and healthy retrofits across the NPA region. This will be achieved through effective project coordination, comprehensive analysis of existing retrofit programs and policies, and the evaluation of best practices in retrofit techniques, materials, energy certification, and HVAC systems. By identifying capacity gaps and providing targeted support, WP1 aims to enhance stakeholder capabilities, ensuring that sustainable retrofit strategies are widely adopted and implemented by the end of the project.\nWP2 involves all five partners, and Associated Partners , using field surveys, IAQ parameters will be measured in 50 domestic dwellings located across the NPA region, at pre- and post- energy retrofit (15-20 in Finland, 15-20 in Ireland, 5-10 in Sweden, 5-10 in Norway, 5-10 in Iceland).  Best practices that  promote and support healthy energy-efficient buildings, at design, construction and delivery to end user ( i.e. occupant) stages will be identified, this information will be used to provide a model for broader adoption across the region.\nCollected data will inform the development of guidance on (1) best practice relevant to design and delivery to promote IAQ (2) Key IAQ parameters and simple measures to check IAQ status in the home. This guidance will be relevant to the  practitioners working in design and delivery of energy renovation, homeowners and tenants.\nWP3 aims to develop and promote a comprehensive set of guidelines and recommendations that will establish a standard for sustainable and healthy retrofitting practices across the NPA region. Leveraging data and insights from WP2’s pilot actions, these guidelines will focus on reducing the environmental footprint of retrofit projects while enhancing indoor air quality (IAQ) and occupant comfort. The goal is to make sustainable retrofitting practices the norm by ensuring that solutions are practical, evidence-based, and adaptable to various contexts. WP3 will also emphasize the integration of innovative technologies and methods, contributing to long-term improvements in building sustainability, occupant health, and the widespread adoption of best practices in the retrofitting industry.","Reykjavik, Kuopio, Umeå, GALWAY, Oulu","IS, FI, SE, IE",{"$nulls":5},6]
["NPA0800237","From waste to worth: Building a value chain for underutilized natural fibres as feedstock in 3D printing","The project aims to establish a sustainable and economically viable value chain for underutilized natural fibers in the NPA region. The solution is creating appealing, industrially manufactured value-added end-products using smart, intelligent technologies that allow for high customizability. This approach could effectively utilize a substantial amount of underutilized fibres and ensure the commercial viability of a sustainable, circular resource. To enhance sustainability and reduce environmental impact, the project focuses on recycling underutilized natural fibres to concrete and polymer composite-based 3D-printing feedstock for construction and manufacturing industries. By adopting 3D printing, the project seeks to transition industries in the region from a linear to a circular economy. By creating new feedstock by combining recycled materials and underutilized natural fibres, the project unlocks exciting opportunities for developing fully localized value chains.","2025-03-01","2028-02-29","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","075 Support to environmentally-friendly production processes and resource efficiency in SMEs","N",1515743.6,"ERDF",985233.3199999999,65,"The objective is to build a collaborative network that supports the adoption of environment-friendly practices and promotes community-driven innovations in 3D printing technologies. This work package focuses on promoting partnerships between local communities, industrial actors and the researchers. It aims to facilitate the knowledge transfer through workshops, training sessions, and webinars, ensuring that stakeholders are informed and actively contribute to the development of sustainable materials for smart manufacturing technology.  \nThe objective of this work package is to develop and optimize methods for the extraction of valuable chemicals from underutilized natural fibers to be used as additives for enhancing the mechanical and functional properties of polymer- and concrete-based composites as a resource efficient feedstock in 3D printing. Additionally, the work package will focus on the development of effective pretreatment techniques to improve the compatibility and performance of these fibers in composite production. Following the development phase, the work package will pilot the newly developed extraction and pretreatment methods to validate their scalability and effectiveness in composite applications.\nThe objective of this work package is to develop, pilot, and assess the feasibility of using pre-treated underutilized natural fibers as feedstock for 3D printing applications, specifically in the form of fiber-reinforced polymer and fiber-reinforced concrete composites. This will involve the formulation of advanced composite materials suitable for 3D printing, piloting the printing process using optimized formulations, and conducting a comprehensive environmental impact assessment and cost analysis. The work package will also lay the groundwork for transitioning from pilot-scale operations to commercial-scale production, ensuring the economic and environmental viability of the 3D printing process with sustainable and resource-efficient bio-based materials.","Umeå, Luleå, Kokkola, Tralee, Co Kerry, Toberbride, Collooney","SE, FI, IE",{"$nulls":5},6]
["NPA0800206","Digital and Technological Social and Healthcare enhanced delivery in Remote areas","Based on the preparatory project, a shortage of professionals in remote areas, a variety of skills and lack of confidence in using technologies set challenges to enhance digitalization in social and healthcare. Professionals working in this field need more hands-on practice and skills to feel confident using tech solutions. RemoTED aims to enhance social and healthcare services by empowering digital-driven practice in remote areas. In collaboration with associate partners, ongoing training offerings strengthen digitalization skills are created, tested, and tech solutions piloted in practice. \n\nBenefits are reduced disparities among professionals' skills, and increased confidence in using tech. In the long run, the benefits of digitalization will be the improvement of services across the remote partner areas and eased workload for professionals. The successful implementation of digital solutions leads to more efficient and accessible services and the development of new service models.","2025-02-01","2028-01-31","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.2. Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","016 Government ICT solutions, e-services, applications","N",1496662.2,"ERDF",972830.42,65,"WP1 aims to assess the competence levels and skill requirements of social and health care professionals who are implementing digital and technological solutions in sparsely populated areas, in collaboration with associate partners. This work builds upon the findings of a preparatory project that examined the current state, challenges, benefits, and future potential of these solutions in social care, healthcare, and training.\n\nIn this phase, background information will be updated with input from University of Iceland involved in the main project. WP1 will also provide detailed insights into the competence levels and skill needs of social and healthcare professionals, focusing on specific challenges in less digitally developed, sparsely populated areas.\n\nThe structure and the content for WP2 and digital and technological practical pilots for WP3 will be based on WP1 and developed with associate partners and technology companies. Tech companies will be recruited/contracted during RemoTED.\nThe goal of this work package is to develop transnational ongoing training offerings to enhance the digital and technological skills and competencies of social and health care professionals and future professionals in remote and sparsely populated areas. The training is developed and assessed in collaboration with future professionals, professionals (associated organizations), and technology companies.  \nThe main aim of this WP is to introduce digital or technological solutions into social and health practice in all partner locations with associate partners in order to enhance access and delivery of services in remote and sparsely northern peripheric areas. The ultimate goal is to know what is the overall impression and experiences of service delivery with professionals and residents (at the associate partners)  at the end of the pilots in the practical field. This WP starts after assessing the competence level of the professionals involved in the pilots before and after providing the updated competence training to handle digital or technological solutions (This happens between WP1 and WP2).\n\n","Reykjavik, Letterkenny, Joensuu, Kemi","IS, IE, FI",{"$nulls":5},4]
["NPA0800223","Innovative tools for farmers to optimize the management of harvested grasslands","CyberGrass \n\n2.0 aims to improve the accuracy and integration of advanced technologies to optimise yield and quality of silage from harvested grass fields. The project recognizes the economic importance of forage production across the NPA region and the lack of adapted decision support tools to help farmers make management decisions that will affect dairy and meat production. CyberGrass \n\n2.0 focuses on three objectives: develop a multi-region satellite-assisted management tool to provide forage yield, quality and harvest predictions (WP1); support low-cost drone-assisted solutions for efficient field scouting, enabling timely interventions (WP2); and explore future technologies to assess grasslands (WP3). Through collaboration and strategic implementation, it will integrate a transnational approach that does not currently exist, combining experts, end-users, datasets, and new methods to boost business competitiveness and sustainability of agricultural resources across rural communities.","2025-03-01","2028-02-29","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","029 Research and innovation processes, technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and universities, focusing on the low carbon economy, resilience and adaptation to climate change","N",1130526.22,"ERDF",708466.17,65,"Develop a framework for estimating the yield, quality and optimum in-season harvest time of forages using new high-resolution satellite methods, artificial intelligence and crop modelling approaches, leading to accurate solutions for farm management.\nEstimate winter kill, botanical composition and yield of northern forages by using low-cost drones with novel imaging techniques and field-specific sampling design, which will complement WP1 with precise forage scouting.\nDevelop cutting-edge remote sensing to evaluate forage yield and quality. We aim to establish technical requirements for practical adoption, helping service providers integrate new technologies into their products and solutions.","Kópavogur, Akureyri, Espoo, Kuopio, Umeå","IS, FI, SE",{"$nulls":5},6]
["NPA0800241","Sustainability reporting enhancing SMEs' market reach, competitiveness, and sustainable growth","Large & listed companies in EU must include comprehensive sustainability report (ESG report) along financial statements in \n\n2025. This requires ESG documentation from all supply chain operators, also SMEs. This challenges SMEs entrepreneurial capacities. \n\nThere are many initiatives to develop solutions (e.g. tools and best practices) to assist SMEs in reporting. However, SMEs have challenges to know about them and they need support to take them up. \n\nTherefore, sustainable SMEs project enhances SMEs’ understanding about the reporting and the sustainability transition as a whole. It encourages SMEs to test and develop sustainability reporting solutions in collaboration with other SMEs. Project also disseminates sustainability reporting knowledge and solutions across the NPA area.","2025-04-01","2028-03-31","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","024 Advanced support services for SMEs and groups of SMEs (including management, marketing and design services)","N",1394549.94,"ERDF",906457.45,65,"WP1 aims to activate and engage SMEs and SMEs' multi-level stakeholders in sustainability reporting and building up SMEs’ reporting capacities. It improves SMEs’ and SMEs’ multilevel stakeholders’ awareness about \n\n-\tthe current and upcoming sustainability reporting related regulations (Corporate sustainability reporting directive (CSRD) and related standards (ESRS); up-coming SME reporting framework)\n-\thow the regulations impact on SMEs access in value chains  \n-\thow SMEs can benefit from reporting capabilities and sustainability transition\n\nThe WP summon-up the SMEs sustainability reporting capabilities, related needs and practices. This information will be used in developing Communication plan (D1.1), creating Piloting roadmap (D2.1) and benefitted in Sustainability reporting guide (D3.4) development as well as in the outreach activities (A3.1). \n\nIn addition, the information gathered and analysed will also be the basis for WP2 piloting, and solution development.\nAt the moment, there is a large number of sustainability reporting solutions under development in different EU projects and to fulfil SMEs needs to meet the reporting requirements of their customers and the coming SME reporting framework, e.g. \n\n-\tmateriality analysis tool (regional ESF, FI)\n-\tESG-tool for SMEs prepared in Interreg Baltic Sea project SUSTOOL that will be available in spring 2025\n-\tGenerative artificial intelligence\n-\tSystem analyses (e.g. IoT, data analyses)\n\nIt is complicated for SMEs to find the solutions and to know what solutions they could benefit the most.  Therefore, WP2 aims to gain understanding how well the experimented sustainability reporting solutions (tools, best practices) support SMEs to meet the customers’ and EU sustainability reporting requirements. This will be benefitted in WP3 outreach activities (A3.1; A3.2; A3.3) and in guidebook (D3.4) preparation.  \n\nIn WP3, the aim is to encourage SMEs and SME multilevel stakeholders across NPA area to \n\n-\tget familiar with the requirements and opportunities related sustainability reporting \n-\tdevelop their reporting capabilities \n-\tlook for end experiment the suitable solutions to take up in reporting\n-\tbenefit reporting results in daily management and business development towards more sustainable business\n\nThese capabilities – motivation, knowledges & skills - improve SMEs market reach, competitiveness, and sustainable growth. \n\nThe objective will be achieved through multichannel communication attracting and involving SMEs and SMEs multilevel stakeholders, such as associated organisations, by benefitting the findings of WP1 & WP2. \n\n","Reykjavik, Scotstown, Sligo, Umeå, Jyväskylä","IS, IE, SE, FI",{"$nulls":5},5]
["NPA0600147","Bridging Gaps through Problem-Solution Matchmaking in the Nordic Region","Main Project:\nOur main project is dedicated to transforming the Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) region into a dynamic ecosystem of collaboration, innovation, and prosperity. At its core is our digital matchmaking portal, a bridge connecting universities, industries, and society. This project is the response to the shared challenges and opportunities faced by NPA communities,, where limited practical engagement, untapped potential, and brain drain coexist.\n\nPreparatory Project:\nThe one-year preparatory project lays the essential groundwork for our main initiative. This phase focuses on activities like stakeholder mapping, recommending project ideas, and strategic planning. The ultimate goal is to pave the way for the development of a problem-solution matchmaking portal, a platform that will foster collaboration and drive growth in the NPA region.\n\nCommon Challenges and Opportunities:\nIn the NPA region, a paradox exists: there is substantial untapped academic potential, yet practical engagement remains limited. Our project takes on this challenge head-on, acting as a catalyst for meaningful collaboration. By facilitating interactions between academia, industry, and society, we aim not only to benefit industries but also to empower academia to conduct research that directly addresses real-world problems, creating a mutually beneficial relationship.\n\nOutputs and Beneficiaries:\nKey outputs of the main project include a state-of-the-art digital platform, serving as a nexus for stakeholders across the NPA area. The envisioned outcomes encompass a wide range of collaborative possibilities. This includes joint thesis projects, internships, PhD research initiatives, research and development applications, and potential employment opportunities for students. Given our regional emphasis on the Nordic Region, there's a unique opportunity for cross-border academic cooperation, where students or student groups from Sweden, Finland, Iceland, or Norway can work together to address regionally relevant issues. This platform will empower participants to propose solutions that drive growth initiatives, catalyzing the development of research and development projects. The beneficiaries encompass academia, industries, public authorities, and communities. By fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange, we aim to enhance competitiveness, catalyze economic growth, and promote sustainability.\n\nImpact and Objectives:\nThe project's overarching objective is to reshape the NPA landscape into a thriving ecosystem of blue and green growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship, where academia and industries coalesce for mutual growth. The project's expected change is transformative. It seeks to kindle a paradigm shift, fostering an environment where students, researchers, and faculty become active agents of change, channeling their expertise toward solving real-world challenges with sustainability at the forefront.\n\nTransnational Approach and Novelty:\nOur project embodies a transnational approach, recognizing that the NPA's challenges and opportunities transcend geographical boundaries. By uniting universities and industries across diverse regions, we leverage diverse perspectives and resources to tackle shared issues. The novelty of our project lies in its ability to channel top-down institutional knowledge with bottom-up innovation, resulting in an adaptive, responsive, and inclusive ecosystem focused on sustainable development. Additionally, our project will foster cross-regional learning, allowing NPA partners to share and gain insights from each other's experiences.\n\nInclusivity and Sustainability:\nOur project is rooted in the principles of inclusivity and sustainability. We are committed to gender equality, offering opportunities for underrepresented groups, including indigenous communities, to engage meaningfully. Additionally, sustainability is a core theme, promoting environmentally conscious practices, renewable solutions, and ethical research ethics throughout our initiatives.\n\nConclusion:\nIn conclusion, our project encapsulates a vision of collaboration that defies geographical constraints. By creating a nexus for academia, industry, and society with a strong focus on blue and green growth and sustainability, we aspire to ignite a transformative wave, revitalizing the NPA region as a hub of innovation, entrepreneurship, resilience, and shared prosperity.","2023-12-01","2024-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","029 Research and innovation processes, technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and universities, focusing on the low carbon economy, resilience and adaptation to climate change","N",99546,"ERDF",13975,65,"The Nordic Bridge Preparatory Project has effectively reached its initial objectives through strategic engagement with key partners and regional stakeholders. This initial phase involved a thorough assessment of existing digital platforms and detailed planning for the upcoming development of the first prototype of the Nordic Bridge portal.\n\nKey Achievements:\n\ni. Successful Stakeholder Workshops: The project's workshops in Norway, Finland, and Iceland played a pivotal role in advancing its objectives. These sessions enabled rich discussions and idea exchanges among participants, which led to the integration of numerous stakeholders as associated partners. This integration has significantly strengthened the collaborative network, ensuring broad-based support and diverse input for the portal’s development.\n\nii. Insightful Feasibility Studies: Feasibility studies conducted during this phase offered a deep dive into the regional needs and potential functionalities of the proposed portal. These studies were crucial for gathering detailed insights that are instrumental in customizing the portal to meet the specific challenges and demands of its users.\n\niii. Impact and Future Outlook: These concerted efforts have not only met the foundational objectives of the Nordic Bridge Preparatory Project but have also laid a solid groundwork for future development. The project’s commitment to stakeholder engagement and tailored, user-centric solutions underscores the added value of cooperation across borders and disciplines. This approach promises to significantly impact regional collaboration, setting the stage for innovative solutions and enhanced partnerships.","Sími, Bodoe, Bodø , Holar, Rovaniemi, Bodø","IS, NO, FI",{"$nulls":5},6]
["NPA0600148","Geographical Indication boosting Food and Tourism sectors in Northern areas","The operating environment is challenging for food and handicraft micro, small and medium sized enterprises in NPA area due to e.g. long distance to customers, low visibility in the markets outside the local area and challenges in obtaining an adequate price for quality products. EU’s quality scheme of geographical indication (GI) could offer some solutions to these problems. It protects the names of specific products (food and non-food), promotes their uniqueness, enables a better price (e.g. the research has shown that the price can be double than similar food products) and links the products to their geographical origin, thus safeguarding the local production. With GI products the local tourism SMEs can also highlight better their local or regional specificity. In addition, GI products bring local traditional knowledge visible. \n\nDespite these several advantages of GI recognition found in studies, the GI system, it’s PR value as well as existing marketing support tools (e.g. marketing funds granted by granted by European Research Executive Agency, REA, for developing marketing of GI protected products) are largely underutilized in the NPA area compared to other parts of Europe. For example, in Italy and Spain alone there are 1306 GI products, while in whole NPA area countries there are only \n\n141.\n\nThis preparatory project contributes to the competitiveness and visibility of local food, handicraft and tourism SMEs in NPA area, promotes their co-operation as well as contributes to wider visibility and recognition of the whole NPA geographical area by developing a main project proposal focusing on enhancing the use of EUs GI system and tools associated to it. The novel approach is to create a cross-border co-operation to support the producers in the NPA region to apply for geographical indication (GI) protection for food and non-food products (such as wool or tweed) and further support them as well as local tourism companies to utilize the GI in their marketing. For several products (e.g. wild bilberry or lingonberry) it is economically and marketing wise sensible to make cross-border GI applications instead of local ones. As only a group of applicants can apply for GI, not an individual company/producer, the application process links together both SMEs and administration at local, regional or cross-border level providing new network approaches. Thus, the idea is to use GI application processes to support cooperation, transfer of knowledge and create and support innovation in and between food, local handicraft production and tourism sectors.\n\nIn this preparatory project the potential of new GI products in NPA area are identified and the relevant stakeholders related to them engaged to the project planning process. Furthermore, the relevant stakeholders in innovating the utilization of GI-products in tourism and marketing are involved. Thus, the objectives of the preparatory project are: identify additional key partners and associated partners for developing the project idea further; map out the potential future GI products, create a project plan and relevant activities for enhancing the use of GI system in NPA area; create a cost-effective budget and secure the match funding from participating countries and submit a main application at spring \n\n2024. The main beneficiaries of the main project would be SMEs, business support organisations and local administration. As a foreseen outputs from the main project are: new GI applications, new knowledge and networks, which all generate competitive advantage and more visibility to the products and area.\n\nThis preparatory project brings together 3 partners from different types of actors: University of Helsinki Ruralia Institute, Finland (GI-products, rural tourism and regional/rural development expertise, acts as a lead partner), Icelandic Lamb, Iceland (the viewpoint of SMEs) and Enterprise office of Donegal County Council, Ireland (the viewpoint of local business support organisation). The partnership will be complemented during the preparatory project aiming to have a wide partnership including more partners as well as associate partners from countries already participating in, and from at least Sweden and Norway and possibly from Greenland.","2023-12-01","2024-05-31","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","024 Advanced support services for SMEs and groups of SMEs (including management, marketing and design services)","N",48992.5,"ERDF",23400,65,"The main aim of the prep proj was the create a main project application for the next NPA call. The prep. proj. partnership has met regularly during the project online approx.  once a month (15.12.2024, 11.1.2024, 26.2.2024, 19.4.2024, 16.5.2024 ) and had one face to face meeting in Ireland on 20.-22.3.2024 to develop the application. In addition active e-mail communication has been conducted. During the meetings and between them the following activities have been carried out:\n1)\tDeveloping  the project idea: the partners have discussed on the project, it’s structure, activities and jointly planned the application draft included as an annex 5. The WP leaders (WP1: Ruralia, WP2: LEO-DCC; WP3: ICLA) created the first idea paper of each WP and the whole partnership joined in the detailed planning process. In addition, the activities and project structure has been discussed with new potential partners joining the project in bilateral online meetings as well as by e-mail to find a suitable role for all partners based on their local needs. The whole partnership will also had an online meeting on 1st of July to finalise the plans. In addition, during the planning process, the relevance of the project’s objectives and activities has been discussed with the stakeholders in all countries (see the summary of stakeholder evaluations as an annex 3) and modified based on their recommendations and needs. \n2)\tExpanding the partnership: the partners have contacted all the potential new partners proposed by JPS in the prep proj grant letter and beyond that. A summary of the results of the discussions can be found from the Annex 6. For the main project, the partnership consists of 6 main partners from 6 counries (FIN, ICE, IRE, SWE, NOR, Greenland) and 2 associated partners.\n3)\tGI inventory: The idea of the inventory was to map out potential GI products and stakeholders related to them for the main project. Based on the inventory it seems that there is a lot of potential food and non-food products that could benefit from GI approach, application process and the label. Based on the inventory, a “short list” of potential products for the main project’s pilots was made and the preliminary interest of the stakeholders confirmed. The inventory can be found as an Annex 2..\n4)\tProject budget: all partners have created their preliminary budgets based on jointly agreed activities and NPA rules. The lack of information on the available match funding from different countries for Interreg NPA programme at the time of creating draft application (e.g. NOR) may still cause some changes to the application, which will be submitted in Sep 2024. However, as the partnership is large enough, potential absence of one partner will not compromise the whole application.\n5)\tFeasibility study: based on the previous activities, the feasibility study on the project and potential risks related to it’s implementation were analysed and potential solutions for the risks considered. The feasibility study can be found as annex 4. \n6)  Compiling the main project application draft based on the previous tasks in the preparatory project. \n\nThe project has also been communicated on it’s activities and purpose within stakeholders in several national meetings and online discussions including the combined project/NPA logo in all the materials. An A3 poster has been published on the project and posted in visible place in partner organisations. In addition, information on the project has been published in the web pages of the partners  https://www.icelandiclamb.is/blogs/geographical-indication-boosting-food-and-tourism-sectors-in-northern-areas-prepatory-project/ ; https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/projects/geographical-indication-boosting-food-and-tourism-sectors-in-nort  and a joint ppt-presentation of the project idea has been made. The project has had it’s own MS Teams workspace for partnership’s use. At the beginning of the prep proj, the partnership contracts were made between the partners (ICLA and LEO-DCC) and the lead partner (Ruralia). The prep. proj has been reported according to the guidance from NPA programme both to Interreg NPA and to the national match funders. ","Donegal, Reykjavik, Mikkeli","IE, IS, FI",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0300096","Empowering NPA Communities by Implementing STEM Ecosystems as a Tool for Navigating Change.","Due to the rapid changes rural NPA communities face, there is an urgent need for skill-building and adaptation. In pursuit of resilience and to be able to contribute to global agendas, such as SDGs and climate change, rural areas must be forward-looking in their way of advancing.\n \nHigh-quality STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) experience, skills and knowledge, with a special emphasis on equity and access can help to empower and equip communities facing the challenges of the future. \n\nThis project proposes to use the evidence-based U.S. STEM Ecosystems model, a cross-sector collaborative approach that has achieved significant success in the U.S. over the past decade, to strengthen the organizational capacity among NPA communities and empower communities to build skills for the 21st century. STEM Ecosystems are collaborative partnerships between organisations, schools, industry, museums, libraries, families, individuals, and any others dedicated to working together to develop STEM skills in a community. \n\nThe fact that a gender gap exists worldwide in STEM fields and STEM skill-building, with fewer girls and women pursuing careers or advanced degrees in STEM fields, is even more tangible in rural areas such as the North of Iceland, Northwest of Ireland and Lappi-Finland. \n\nWith a community-based approach, using the STEM ecosystems model, this project will motivate the three partnering NPA communities to identify and address specific shared challenges around girls and women in STEM in their communities. By working across borders, this project will empower the communities to gain from each other’s resources, knowledge, and strengths and forge stronger solutions to their challenges. By building these cross-sector partnerships and working together transnationally, this project will forge common solutions for more prosperous and resilient communities. The project will result in a manual with best practices to be disseminated with other NPA and rural areas.","2023-06-01","2024-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_ISO1) Strengthening the organisational capacity among NPA communities to make use of cooperation opportunities","ISO6.4. Enhance institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement macro-regional strategies and sea-basin strategies, as well as other territorial strategies (all strands)","PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governance","173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional context","N",197490,"ERDF",71298.5,65,"1. What are the project's overall challenges (regional and sectoral)?\nRegional Challenges: The NPA regions face geographic isolation, harsh weather conditions, low population density, limited accessibility, and the effects of climate change. These factors contribute to youth and workforce drain, particularly among women, as they seek better opportunities elsewhere.\nSectoral Challenges: The STEM sectors face barriers such as limited resources, lack of collaboration culture, and gender stereotypes. Additionally, there is often insufficient visibility and promotion of STEM career pathways, particularly for girls and women.\n2. What was the specific problem addressed?\nThe project aimed to address the underrepresentation of girls and women in STEM fields in Arctic and remote communities, exacerbated by stereotypes, cultural barriers, and limited opportunities. The project also sought to counteract the talent drain and lack of local STEM capacity​.\n3. Describe the key solution(s) that the project developed and tested to address the problem.\nEstablishing STEM Learning Ecosystems (SLEs) in three regions (Húsavík, Galway, and Rovaniemi) to foster cross-sector collaboration.\nPilot projects like STEM school councils, online STEM clubs, and evaluation toolkits to promote inclusivity and engagement in STEM education.\nIntegrating Indigenous knowledge and local cultural heritage into STEM initiatives to enhance relevance and acceptance.\n​4. Describe how the project developed the solution(s) and why cooperation was important in that process.\nThe solutions were co-designed through collaborative processes, involving advisory boards comprising representatives from education, industry, government, and the community. Cooperation was vital for pooling resources, integrating diverse perspectives, and achieving buy-in across sectors. Regular meetings and workshops helped shape shared visions and align efforts​.\n5. To what extent has cooperation been important for achieving the project results?\nCooperation was critical. The cross-sector approach allowed stakeholders to share knowledge, address challenges collaboratively, and implement initiatives that no single entity could achieve alone. Cooperation amplified impact and ensured the sustainability of the project outcomes.\n6. What benefits did the partner organisations derive from cooperation? \nStrengthened networks and partnerships across sectors and regions.\nEnhanced ability to undertake innovative projects.\nShared resources and expertise to address gender disparities and promote STEM education.\nOpportunities to learn from and replicate successful practices in other communities.\n7. What did change in the targeted regions and sectors because of the project solutions?\nIncreased visibility of STEM career pathways, particularly for girls and women.\nGreater collaboration and communication among community stakeholders.\nCreation of sustainable STEM initiatives tailored to regional needs.\nImproved STEM engagement and education through innovative pilot projects.\n8. How did the project change affect the target groups?\nThe project empowered girls and women in STEM by increasing their confidence, breaking down stereotypes, and providing role models and opportunities. It also engaged local communities, including teachers and parents, to support STEM education​.\n9. How will the durability of the solutions be ensured?\nDurability is ensured through:\nEstablishing self-sustaining ecosystems with advisory boards.\nSharing best practices and resources via the manual and public platforms.\nTraining and workshops to build local capacity.\nEncouraging continuous collaboration and resource-sharing across regions​.\n10. Do you still see future possible challenges and opportunities in the field of the content your project was dealing with?\nChallenges:\nSecuring consistent funding and resources for STEM initiatives.\nOvercoming persistent cultural and structural barriers to gender equality.\nAdapting to rapid technological and economic changes in STEM fields. \nOpportunities:\nExpanding the STEM Learning Ecosystem model to other regions.\nLeveraging digital tools to reach remote and underserved communities.\nBuilding on successful pilot projects to develop scalable programs.\n","Galway, Helsinki, Húsavík","IE, FI, IS",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0800248","Empowering Communities through Forest Carbon Farming: Building Climate Resilience and Sustainable Resource Management","The FORESTCARBOVISION project addresses pressing environmental challenges in the NPA region by developing and implementing sustainable forest carbon farming technologies.By integrating advanced forest carbon farming technologies, the project aims to improve forest carbon capture and biodiversity conservation in 4 participating countries. The project will produce innovative carbon assessment tools, a replicability framework for best practices, and pilot projects demonstrating scalable solutions. Key beneficiaries include forest owners, environmental agencies, and policymakers. A transnational approach is essential to leverage diverse expertise, enabling the adaptation of solutions to different ecosystems. The originality of the project lies in its participatory approach, co-designing practical tools and methods with stakeholders from public institutions, research organizations, NGOs, and private sector partners, ensuring wide-scale implementation and impact across the region.","2025-05-01","2028-04-30","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","060 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: others, e.g. storms and drought (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches)","N",975128.79,"ERDF",633833.71,65,"WP1 will establish five operational Living Labs across four NPA countries (Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Ireland), applying Living Lab methods as the core mechanism for co-designing and co-creating solutions for climate change adaptation, biodiversity enhancement, and forest carbon accounting. The Living Labs will bring together best practices and transdisciplinary expertise from across the Quadruple Helix of societal actors to develop a \"Forest Carbon Farming Toolkit\" that is replicable and adaptable to diverse local contexts. WP1 will include an initial scoping phase to assess regional capacities and challenges, followed by co-creation activities to produce innovative solutions. The objective is to decrease the error of forest carbon assessment to 0.1% and ensure replicability, with local stakeholders involved in policy development and capacity building. These activities will support the transition to sustainable, climate-resilient forestry practices across the NPA region.\nWP2 will establish and operationalize five demonstration sites across four NPA countries (Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Ireland) to showcase innovative approaches for enhancing climate resilience, improving forest carbon accounting, and promoting nature restoration. These demonstration sites will apply the \"Forest Carbon Farming Toolkit\" developed in WP1 and aim to reduce forest carbon monitoring errors by 0.1%. The objective is to validate the toolkit's effectiveness in diverse environmental contexts and ensure its scalability across the NPA region. Additionally, WP2 will engage local stakeholders and policymakers through field demonstrations, ensuring that at least three nature restoration and carbon farming practices are adopted locally by the end of the project. The measurable outcome will be a significant improvement in local climate adaptation strategies and forest management practices.\nWP3 will enhance the capacity of at least 100 local forestry professionals, community members, and policymakers across Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Ireland to adopt climate-resilient forestry and forest carbon farming practices. Through a series of tailored training sessions, workshops, and hands-on demonstrations, the project will equip participants with the skills and knowledge to apply the \"Forest Carbon Farming Toolkit\" and integrate it into regional forestry management. The objective is to ensure that at least 70% of participants implement climate-adaptive practices within their local contexts, contributing to sustainable climate-smart forestry management and carbon sequestration. The measurable outcome will be an increase in the adoption of climate-resilient methods across the region, ensuring long-term environmental and economic sustainability.","Hvanneyri, LEAP, Co CORK, Oulu, Joensuu","IS, IE, FI",{"$nulls":5},4]
["NPA0100025","Hybrid energy solutions for buildings, and infrastructure","HYBrid Energy Solutions for buildings, and infrastructure (HYBES) project will use the Quadruple helix approach to jointly create knowledge-based tools and activities for promoting improved energy efficient solutions to achieve substantial reduction of greenhouse gas emissions within the NPA region. The project combines the concept of ‘Living Labs’ and the roll out of innovative tools to establish dedicated Decarbonisation Zones (DZ) in rural and peripheral regions. HYBES aims to build a knowledge-based ecosystem within rural communities to promote DZ opportunities and to build citizen capacity to achieve carbon neutral goals. HYBES will refine the ‘Living Lab’ concept in five partner regions; Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Through these Living Lab projects partners will build citizen knowledge and understanding about the importance and benefits of decarbonisation. HYBES will engage with communities who often feel marginalised by carbon neutral policies. HYBES will demonstrate how decarbonisation measures can benefit communities and individual households both financially and environmentally using existing best practices and novel innovations. The critical element will be to demonstrate through tangible outputs and education the value of decarbonisation. The project will:\n\n-\tRefine 5 ‘living labs’ in regions to promote and develop dedicated Decarbonisation Zones in rural and peripheral areas which can be replicated across the NPA region & beyond.\n-\tIdentify good practices and techniques that can address decarbonisation challenges and help achieve carbon neutrality.\n-\tFacilitate co-creation and citizen engagement as a means of building citizen knowledge around the benefits of decarbonisation.\n-\tOffer interaction with communities and stakeholders within NPA region.\n-\tDevelop a ‘carbon school’ initiative which will enable school children to see first-hand the benefits of decarbonisation initiatives with the aim of developing curriculum change.","2023-02-01","2026-01-31","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.1. Promoting energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","053 Smart Energy Systems (including smart grids and ICT systems) and related storage","N",1579303.83,"Other, ERDF",613881.97,65,"Lead Partner of Hybes project has given priority to set up and plan Hybes activities with Hybes partners. The precontracting period LP followed up the requirement made as the Hybes project was approved. Necessary updates to the application were made. Work packet structure for Hybes were restructured and some changes were made for output indicators to align these with program definition. Also, a change in partnership was handled. Necessary contracting work has been done with Grant Letter and partner agreement has been written, accepted, and signed by all Hybes partners. LP organized and prepared Hybes Kick-off meeting in Bodø 14th and 15th February. All partners were present. At this meeting changes in application were communicated and partners was engaged in structuring activities in the short and long term.  All WP lead presented their respective WP’s and corresponding activities. \nTo secure internal communication and progress in the different WP activities of Hybes, LP organizes monthly online meetings with Hybes partners. At these monthly meetings almost, all partnership has been presented and has presented their activities. Partners has been engaged with activities set out by the lead partner, Work Package leaders and Task Leaders for semester one. A joint communication web site is established at LP waiting for NPA mini website to be implemented. Common file sharing platform promoting information and results between Hybes partners has been set up and the required communication tools and templates are developed. LP has made the draft of the Communication Strategy and partners have contributed to it. Hybes posters has been designed and partners have set up the Hybes posters at their workplaces. Press release has been distributed and shared through media channels.\nA key output for Hybes this period has been the preparation of the projects Joint Action Plan (JAP). The partner CCC has completed the first draft of the JAP. The JAP identifies the key decarbonisation and energy policies for each of the partner regions. To develop the JAP CCC designed a policy template and methodology to follow. Each partner region has contributed with information on regional specific policies and strategies on energy and climate goals. JAP is a tool that will facilitate discussion around project delivery for all project meetings, workshops, and events. \nAnother key activity has been the development of the framework for the living lap concept, and the preparation of Stakeholder Workshops for each Hybes region. UCC Community Engagement Office has led this work and has initiated individual online partner meetings and consultations to prepare this activity. Partners have started up planning and mapping of stakeholder to be involved in living lab workshops and discussion with stakeholders to be involved in local pilots. \nWP2.1 Macro energy analysis using modelling technique and WP2.2 Best practise models for energy effiency, management and monitoring is started up during this period and Umeå Municipality has develop a template and partners have filled in energy monitoring tools in use in partner regions. \nIn WP 3 partners have prepared the renewable energy pilots to be used. These pilots will demonstrate the use of solar and geothermal energy efficiency and flexibility in houses and demonstrate mainstream possibilities for carbon reduction and a move away from fossil fuel use for power and heating. \nLP has had an active dialouge with NPA secretariate in this period and has attended two Lead partner seminars organized by NPA secretariate 23rd of May and 14th of June. These seminars gave introduction to Jems and reporting practices of NPA projects. LP together with National Energy Authority of Iceland is now organizing the next Hybes partner meeting in Akureyri 12th to 14th Sept.\n\nOn communication Nordland Research Institute as Lead partner has developed all required communication tools and has within this period also finished the communication plan. Early in this period partnership meeting was arranged in Arkureyri, Iceland. Main focus at this meeting was to highlight methods and practices for awareness raising towards low carbon and renewable energy society and regions. Target groups was young people. Awareness building for the energy transition towards energy efficiency and the use for renewable energy sources is vital for the Hybes project. A key output towards this was the finalisation and submission of the HYBES Joint Action Plan (JAP). Cork County Council has leaded this work. The JAP is an essential deliverable for the HYBES project as it identifies the key decarbonisation and energy efficiency policies for each of the partner regions. The JAP will be used by partners to track the project progress and to ensure that the project properly deliveries and reflects the actions and tasks set out in the HYBES application.\nAnother main activity for awareness building has been the organization of five regional stakeholder workshops supporting regional decarbonsations solutions. These workshops follow the methodology of living lab outlined by University College Cork. Partners has made stakeholder mapping and some of the regional workshops was accomplished in this reporting period. Some will be organized early in the next period. It has been important to involve Hybes in local and regional strategies for decarbonization. Therefore, the timing of the stakeholder workshops has been coordinated with these locale process. Parallel with the implementing the regional stakeholder workshops UCC has worked on the drafting of a report based on the experience with and from the regional workshops. \nBased on the processes from the stakeholder workshops and the work Hybes partners acquires from monitoring the energy pilots we will further develop the model and reality behind our Decarbonisation Zones (DZ). In Umeå a study on various aspects on \"Energy Community\" (EC) has been carried out. This study is in line with the European Commission directives on energy communities (EC). The chosen village is “Möteplats Stöcke” and the residents will participate and contribute, in developing an EC. The aim of the report is to provide the basis for advice and examine what the current situation looks like, and what opportunities there are for developing an EC in Umeå. As part of Hybes project to develop renewable and flexible energy solutions at district level Umeå University (UmU) also has started the work on energy modelling of a cluster of buildings in the case district in Ålidhem.\nWithin the report period partners have had a discussion of appropriated energy management and monitoring tools. Lead partner has developed a template used to describe all Hybes Pilots in detail. This will give a suitable platform for comparations and joint developed solutions. In Cork NCE uses an energy management tool to monitor energy use in Schools and is training students and teachers to read them. Another tool for decarbonation and smart solar energy has also been installed in 4 homes in Cork County. In addition, with experience from Solar energy pilots in Bodø and in Iceland Hybes contributes to make visible desentralised and local energy solutions to reduce dependence on grid.  This will enhance energy safety both in cities reducing pike capacity, and in rural areas, where the electrical grid is weak or even not existing. \n","Akureyri, Bodø, Argir, Umeå, Cork, UMEÅ","IS, NO, FO, SE, IE",{"$nulls":5},11]
["NPA0100032","Building public sector innovation capacity towards digital-driven NPA communities","Public sector organisations in the NPA area acknowledge the importance of introducing innovations to meet the increasing demand from their communities to get quality and sustainable services. However, these areas are in a disadvantageous position due to the challenges identified in the Programme area such as increasing demand of an ageing population, the unit cost of service provision to small and diminishing populations over large distances and the skills gap in the shift to digital solutions.\n\nFeedback received from public sector staff states that an effective way to overcome these challenges could be to specify, select and implement quick win initiatives by testing disruptive innovations that address repeating problems in public sector service areas. \n\nINNOCAP’s overall objective is to provide enhanced quality and sustainable public services by enabling public sector organisations to lead the adoption of disruptive innovations and digital technologies.\n\nA key output will be a capacity building programme that will prepare public sector organizations from the 3 NPA geographical zones to pilot and further adopt 4 disruptive public services – the other main outputs of the project- in key areas such as climate change action, environmental management or the digital and green transition. \n\nThis will benefit at least 120 users from the main target groups of the project, who are the public sector staff in charge of the management and delivery of public services in their territories and the final users of these services.\n\nThe utilised approach combines ambitiously very different dimensions. This integral and pragmatic approach, combined with disruptive innovation characteristics, requires transnational cooperation to meet the project’s ambitions that otherwise would be impossible for an individual organisation or a region to address them sufficiently and in the extent planned in INNOCAP.\n\nThe project brings together 8 partners from the 3 NPA geographical zones and Canada.","2023-01-01","2025-12-31","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.2. Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","018 IT services and applications for digital skills and digital inclusion","N",1380296.28,"ERDF",767192.58,65,"This first reporting period has served to launch the project, setting up all the management and communication structures supporting other activities and seeking for a correct implementation and monitoring of the actions planned in the project.\n\nThe partnership’s work have focused in 2 key activities that will serve as the basis for the definition of the capacity building programme, one of the key elements of INNOCAP. These 2 activities have consisted in the preparation of: 1) Needs Analysis report; 2) Disruptive Innovation Knowledge map.\n\nTheir consecution has led into the definition of the modules of the capacity building programme (starting in the next period) in a way that is meaningful and responsive to the needs of the participating region and also making use of the innovation knowledge available in the area.\n\nThe second reporting period has served to expose the INNOCAP partners and stakeholders to a range of disruptive innovations through a series of focused sessions of the capacity building programme.\n\nThe thematic of those sessions was selected using the findings of the previous work done with the preparation of the Needs Analysis report and the Disruptive Innovation Knowledge map.\n\nThis is allowing them to have a better understanding of the possibilities that a different range of disruptive technologies can offer for them to implement the 4 planned services. Based on the knowledge acquired in the sessions, the partners are starting to devise the supporting technologies they will select in the implementation of their services and which include: 1) Building a digital innovation platform (Västernorrland, Sweden) using participatory web portals; 2) Waste data hub (South Iceland) making use of IoT and data dashboards; 3) Social innovation led service for decision-making on digital and green transition (South Savo, Finland) using visualisation GIS tools and; 4) Climate change action monitoring (Donegal, Ireland) using IoT for flood prevention.\n\n\nThis reporting period has served to conclude the capacity building programme enabling the partners and their stakeholders to define and start the development of the pilot services planned in the programme. \n\nThe capacity building programme initiated in the previous period started with a wider focus where partners were exposed to a range of technologies with potential application into the service cases identified. This allowed partners to identify those technologies more suitable to their cases. \n\nIn this period the capacity building programme consisted in more focused sessions on those technologies selected by partners. This led into a natural process where the latest sessions were used to start the definition of the pilots.\n\nAt the end of the period, the following services have been defined:\n1) Building a digital innovation platform (Västernorrland, Sweden) using participatory web portals;\n2) Waste data hub (South Iceland) making use of IoT and data dashboards;\n3) Social innovation led service for decision-making on digital and green transition (South Savo, Finland) using visualisation GIS tools; \n4) Climate change action monitoring (Donegal, Ireland) using IoT for flood prevention.\n\nThis reporting period has mainly served to progress the development of the pilot services planned in the project.\nWhen developing the services, the partners have involved their stakeholders and made use of the capacity building programme delivered earlier in the project.\nThe following summarises the different services and its status of development at the end of period 4 (December 2024):\n1) Building a digital innovation platform (Västernorrland, Sweden): A digital innovation platform is under development by ALAV in collaboration with Örnsköldsvik municipality to empower municipal employees to develop, share, and grow ideas that address work-related, societal, and efficiency challenges—enhancing the quality of service delivery to citizens. This pilot integrates advanced AI throughout the innovation process—from idea generation and co-design to case management and service delivery—offering support to employees at every stage. Key components include innovation coaches trained in service design and innovation methods, as well as digital coaches skilled in disruptive technologies like VR and AI-assisted chatbots. This forward-looking initiative will enable a collaborative, AI-supported environment where staff can actively contribute to service improvements, ultimately enhancing both employee experiences and the quality of municipal services. The platform is expected to be ready by the end of March 2025.\n2) Waste data hub (South Iceland). a data platform \"Waste data hub\" is being finalised, where the goal is to develop monitoring and control tools for municipalities, intended for them to monitor and make strategic decisions based on waste issues. The Waste data hub works with all waste categories within municipalities, measuring quantity and cost figures. The municipalities can then assess where they stand in different waste categories based on the goals and conditions of the EU. Decisions on incentives, services, education, or levies on service users (inhabitants, institutions, and companies) can then be made based on the situation at any given time and the results of those decisions can be analyzed as a result. \nThe pilot intends to establish a service to create a knowledge center which will have an active role in educating the relevant staff of each municipality, students, businesses and the public in waste management. \nThe pilot will be ready in March 2025 and it is planned to work with existing data from 3 municipalities and input in the solution to create the dashboards. SAAS will then present the solution and ask for the buy-in of the municipalities.\n3)Social innovation led service for decision-making on digital and green transition (South Savo, Finland): This service is aimed to compare progression and geographical location of green transitions: what is happening in green transition and where it happens in South Savo region, Finland?\nThe state and development of green transition in South Savo region is illustrated on a map by using open access geospatial data describing commonly used green transition indicators. In addition to the map and spatial data used in visualizing green transition indicators, the service has an integrated AI assistant using OpenAI’s large language model (LLM). The AI assistant answers questions, conducts light analyses and runs comparisons considering the state and advancement of green and digital transition in the region of South Savo based on focused training materials.\nOverall, the service provides 1) evidence-based information for municipal decision-making that 2) advances regional capabilities in green and digital transition by 3) combining regional green and digital efforts realized to rural and regional development outcomes. The map, including 21 different indicators will be ready by February 2025. The AI-powered chatbot is planned to be finalised by March 2025.\n4) Climate change action monitoring (Donegal, Ireland). This service is aimed at installing and testing the use of Internet of Things water level sensors in a catchment in rural upland West Donegal. The sensors will be used to monitor and quantify the reaction of the rivers to weather related rain events. The goal is to create a baseline level of information of current conditions, and subsequently as part of the Climate Action Plan mitigation measures, to develop a nature based solution (NBS) to water runoff management and monitor through the sensor network any quantifiable changes to runoff behaviour as a result of the NBS.\nThe service will 1) test the use of IoT as a viable tool for local authority environmental monitoring and 2) create a baseline measure of water conditions and reactions within the catchment.\nThe data from the sensor network will be made available as OpenData and integrate into a mobile based alerting service for registered users. This will notify users of any breeches of set thresholds in the water levels in the catchment. Status:service planned to be ready in April 2025.","Galway, Lifford, Mikkeli, Selfoss, Härnösand, Letterkenny","IE, FI, IS, SE",{"$nulls":5},6]
["NPA0800213","Regenerative Tourism in the Northern Periphery and Arctic for building resilient communities and preserving the unique heritage of the region","The NPA is a particularly sensitive environment, susceptible to the effects of increased tourism. The negative environmental impacts of tourism are substantial. This is why sector shift is necessary. Regenerative tourism is a sustainable approach to travel that aims to restore and replenish the environment that tourists visit. This type of tourism goes beyond minimizing negative impacts and strives to create positive outcomes for the destinations and people involved.\nThe major actors in tackling this challenge are both public and private sector. The cooperation of both is essential for conscious tourism sector development.\nThe challenge lies in effectively introducing, enhancing capacity and intergrating regenerative practices.\nThe project will establish capacity building, strategic and marketing solutions to adopt practices that contribute to the regeneration of natural, economic and cultural resources, setting a precedent for a sustainable and resilient future in the NPA and beyond","2025-04-01","2028-03-31","(VI-B_NPaA_ISO1) Strengthening the organisational capacity among NPA communities to make use of cooperation opportunities","ISO6.4. Enhance institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement macro-regional strategies and sea-basin strategies, as well as other territorial strategies (all strands)","PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governance","079 Nature and biodiversity protection, natural heritage and resources, green and blue infrastructure","N",1194380,"Other, ERDF",646347,65,"To evaluate current tourism situation, establish regenerative tourism model and build solid stakeholder network\nTo jointly create 4 local regenerative travel hubs and improve sectors’ actors capacities\nTo initiate policy dialogue and plan for the further local development of regenerative tourism","Blacklion, Norsjö, Joensuu, Reykjanesbær","IE, SE, FI, IS",{"$nulls":5},7]
["NPA0800203","Geographical Indication boosting Food, Non-food and Tourism sectors in Northern areas","The operating environment is challenging for food and non-food SMEs in the NPA area due to factors like distance to customers, low market visibility, and difficulties in securing fair prices for quality products. The EU’s geographical indication (GI) scheme could help by protecting product names, promoting uniqueness, enabling better price, and linking products to their origin. However, this system is underutilized in the NPA compared to other European regions. This project aims to boost the competitiveness and visibility of local SMEs, enhance cooperation, and increase recognition of the NPA area by enhancing the use of GI system. The project will create cross-border cooperation to support both regional and cross-border GI applications and integrate local tourism in utilizing GI. The project involves 4 main partners (FIN, IRE, ICE, GL) and 4 associated partners (NOR SWE, FIN), focusing on awareness raising, piloting GI application processes, and opening new markets for GI products.","2025-04-01","2028-03-31","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","024 Advanced support services for SMEs and groups of SMEs (including management, marketing and design services)","N",937312,"Other, ERDF",430275.3,65,"WP1 (lead by Ruralia) aims to increase the awareness, knowledge/capacities of actors to utilise GI labeling system and use it in their product development. The WP will use the expertise and experiences of the international partnership to inform on benefits, possibilities and challenges of using GI system regarding the food and non-food products. It also provides tools for the SMEs to analyse their potential for applying for GI system and help the application process. Special focus is on providing information on the non-food labeling regulations in layman’s language as the novel regulation (EU2023/2411) was launched at Nov. 2023 and build in co-operation between authorities related to it.  The aim in all activities is not to market EU’s GI system as such, but provide information for the SMEs and other actors on how to benefit from the system and use the process as part of their product development as well as network creation. The WP contributes mainly to the result indicator  RCR04_1.3\nWP2(lead by LEO-DCC) aims to collect together the most potential groups for application in piloting countries, commit them to the process, provide guidance and support for strategical planning of the label's use and mentor writing the application. The focus is on building food and craft  producers' expertise and capability about the practicalities’ involved in the GI application process. It will include interaction with different regionally-based food/craft  producers to encourage likeminded  enterprises to come together, share experiences and offer an opportunity to engage with EU GI schemes in conjunction with national project partners' support and establish a geographic link between the product and the region. The aim is to have 1-3 piloting groups from FIN, IRE, ICE. In GL the focus is more on mapping out the potential groups. Associated partners in NOR and SWE seek for nat. funding  for piloting as possible. The WP contributes to the result indicators RCR 04_1.3 and RCR104_1.3\n\n\nWP3 (lead by ICLA) has 2 main objectives: \n1) to assist potential new and existing users of the GI´s in using the GI´s in their marketing and PR strategy at practical level and to support new users of GI on using the label in their communication  to increase visibility, demand and value of their products. The WP also provides the basic knowledge and support in drafting an cross-border application for the EU's marketing resources for GI products (MULTI-REA application) and aims to build a network to take such an application process further to increase the competitiveness of SMEs.\n\n2) to work with the pilots from WP2 during their application process and help them strategically consider their marketing activities during and after the project and pilot new ways to open markets for GI products, critical issue being able to define the common story for GI products used by all stakeholders in B2B and B2C communication.\n \nThe WP contributes to the result indicators RCR04_1.3 and RCR104_1.3","Nuuk, NA","GL, IE, IS, FI",{"$nulls":5},4]
["NPA0100004","Blue Circular Nets","Marine litter has received a lot of attention in the past years as a most vivid sign of the degradation of our oceans’ health. Single use plastics (SUP) and fishing gear are the main sources of marine litter in Europe, and significant steps have been taken to tackle this issue. Many SUP products have been phased out of production and have been replaced with products that are made from less harmful materials. However, transition from plastics to more degradable materials is not possible when it comes to fishing gear. Other actions are needed to decrease the impact of fishing gear in the pollution of marine environment. \n\nWhen fishing nets are approaching their end-of-life (EOL), the nets should be collected and disposed appropriately. SUP directive, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the Ports Reception Directive are pushing the whole sector towards this direction, but setting up a collection network in the demanding NPA circumstances requires extra efforts from all of those involved. On the other hand, this offers also an opportunity to recycle and eventually also reuse the collected materials, which is in align with the EU’s goals for Circular Economy and resource efficiency. \n\nThe CIRCNETS project is following in the footsteps of previously implemented NPA projects of Circular Ocean, Blue Circular Economy and Blue Circular Tech, which have demonstrated, that this issue requires transnational approach. CIRCNETS is utilising outcomes of these projects and taking them further. The main outcome is a Blueprint for collection, treatment and reuse of EOL fishing gear for the NPA region and in delivering this CIRCNETS also prepares the stakeholders involved in fishing business for the implementation of these legislative changes. In the above mentioned projects certain aspects related to the issue have been already addressed, but these have lacked both the geographical extent and holistic view on the collection, recycling and re-use, which CIRCNETS will deliver.","2023-01-01","2025-12-31","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","072 Use of recycled materials as raw materials compliant with the efficiency criteria","N",1499969.46,"Other, ERDF",642184.97,65,"The main focus during the first reporting period was on setting the project up and starting the first actual activities of the project. Recruitment and other administrative issues at the beginning of the project delayed a little the implementation of the project and the kick-off meeting of the project was postponed to April (Sotenäs, Sweden, 17.-19. April 2023). Internal communication procedures (monthly - or more frequent if necessary - virtual partner meeting), each partner set up a project team within their organisation and the partnership agreement was drafted and signed in April.\n\nIt was decided to take the kick-off meeting to Sotenäs, as this provided an excellent opportunity to get to know in detail, how the marine recycling center operates. The aim of the kick off meeting was also to go through in detail the implementation plan of the project and the more detailed plans for the first activities of the Work Packages, which were presented by the WP leaders and discussed by the partners.\n\nThe first concrete activity that was started, was Activity 1.1. NPA port review. University of Oulu drafted an online survey for the partners to be used, which was updated based on their feedback. The partners also shared the draft with some organisations working with these issues to get expert feedback on it before it was sent to the ports. Partners also gathered information about the ports located in their region, to whom the survey should be sent. UO managed to open the survey in May-June, but the results could not be analysed yet by the end of the first reporting period. Some other partners opened the survey in June, whereas others decided to postpone the opening of the survey to August due to the holiday season. \n\nThere has been some contacts with couple other EU funded projects, which work with similar issues. These include Central Baltic Sea programme's RE-FISH and PlastLIFE SP funded by the LIFE programme. Future collaboration with these projects has been drafted.\nDuring the second reporting period the partners completed the port review. Results of the online survey and site visits were analysed and included in the drafted Port Review report. The partners opened also a similar online survey in autumn for aquaculture companies operating in the NPA region. The aim of this survey was to find out, whether separate collection of EOL fishing gear is carried out in aquaculture just as was done with fishing ports. Since SMEs were slow to respond, the online surveys were still open by the end of 2023, but some preliminary results were already analysed and included in the Port Review report. Once the aquaculture survey is completed in early 2024, the findings will be included in the final version of the Port Review report in which separate collection of EOL fishing gear is discussed in detail. \n\nAs the project was still in the opening phase, there was also a lot of dissemination activities during the second reporting period. The aim of these activities was to promote the project and raise awareness about the EOL fishing gear collection and recycling in general. The project and collection of EOL fishing gear got nationwide attention in August, as the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE joined the Finnish project team on their site visit to Lumijoki fishing port and the news made it all the way to the main evening news broadcast. The story was also on YLE's radio news and in online news (https://yle.fi/a/74-20043437), and also a local radio in the Oulu region interviewed the project coordinator. Some print media outlets picked up the story as well. In November the project was also present at the Arctic Plastic Symposium in Iceland (with a poster) and in the first International Conference on Ghost Gear in Norway (with a presentation). These venues provided and excellent opportunity to promote both the topic itself and the project in particular. Finally, before the end of the year, the first edition of the project newsletter, Gus Gull's Gull Bulletin was also published. \n\n\nThe third reporting period of the project has seen a lot of progress in several different fields of the project. The first major deliverable of the project, D.1.1.1 NPA Port Review, saw the daylight during Spring 2024 and is worth of a closer look. The hefty report provides a general overview of the role of fishing and aquaculture in the NPA countries and the state of legislation related to EOL fishing gear collection. The main outcome of the report is that it summarises the findings of the port and aquaculture surveys about disposal practices of fishing gear in partner countries. These surveys were organised in each partner country to find out the state of EOL fishing gear collection, and the results revealed that there are huge differences in the collection and recycling volumes between the countries. In Iceland, for instance, the collection rate of the EOL fishing gear is close to 80 percents, whereas in the opposite end, in the Finnish NPA are, this has not been carried out at all. \n\nThe main findings of D.1.1.1 were picked up and further analysed in D.2.1.1 Development report for NPA EOL collection system. The report included also examples from this field from other regions, so called Best Applied Technology (BAT) case studies. These provided insight into how this matter had been approached elsewhere and which could be applied perhaps also in the NPA region. A further angle to this issue is a review of Life Cycle Assessment of fishing gear recycling and related materials, which was started towards the end of the reporting period. The aim of this work is to provide a holistic look into the impacts of EOL collection and recycling from the perspective of Life Cycle Asssesment: What kind of environmental impacts is generated through this operation, do the benefits exceed the negative impacts, which are these, etc.? This task will be completed later on.\n\nOther activities, that were implemented under WP2 included the first Economic potential workshops (D.2.2.1). The first one was organised in Ålesund, Norway (in connection to the partner meeting) in May. Representatives of different stakeholder groups - fishing, aquaculture, recycling, etc. - took part in these events. The workshop in Ålesund was kicked off by a seminar in hybrid mode, which was also an EMD in My Country event that gathered participants cross the Europe. A further aspect of the workshop was that it included not only Economic potential issues, but it was organised as a joint event of A.3.2, which addresses EPR issues. The event provided a means for the project to inform the stakeholders about the upcoming EPR legislation and about the business possibilities related to this, but also to hear opinions and ideas about this from the field. Another workshop, based on the same model of combining these two approaches, was organised later in June by the Swedish partner, and similar events will be organised also later on in the project in other partner countries. \n\nThere has been a lot of stakeholder engagement and dissemination in the third reporting period, in addition to the above mentioned seminar and workshops. The project was also present in the annual European Maritime Day event, which was organised in May in Svendborg, Denmark. The aim of this event was to network with other organisations working on these issues and also to get firsthand experience about the EMD in general and about the workshops. The aim is that CIRCNETS would try to organise a workshop in connection to the next EMD, which will be organised in Cork, Ireland, in May 2025.\n\nOther activities that the project partners have been actively pursuing are the remaining deliverable reports of WP1. D.1.2.1 Fishing gear report: Review on quantities and qualities of fishing gear in the NPA area has turned out to be a difficult report to compile, due to unforeseen gaps in the available information about fishing gear entering the market and about the fishing gear volumes in use. The task has been delayed due to these gaps. The other output of WP1 is D.1.3.1 EOL fishing gear report: Review of EOL gear collection and responsibilities in the NPA region. This report will also include information about the current recycling capacity in the NPA countries, which is vital information, as transition period for collection of EOL fishing gear ends in EU countries and collected volumes are expected to increase. Work has also progressed in WP3 with the D.3.1.1. Report about the implementation of EPR in other sectors, which will be completed in the following reporting period.\n\n","Kungshamn, Reykjavik, -, University of Oulu","SE, IS, IE, NO, FI",{"$nulls":5},7]
["NPA0200079","Biodiversity sustaining carbon management in degraded lands and cut-away peatlands in Northern periphery and Arctic regions","Globally, carbon capture should be increased maintaining biodiversity at the same time. In Northern periphery (NP), there are degraded and neglected areas whose utilization could be developed towards efficient carbon capture. In Finland cut-away peatlands are underutilized areas due to the changing energy policy. In Iceland serious environmental problem is the loss of vegetation by wind erosion and in Norway the cultural landscape includes areas that are intensively farmed such as coastal heaths but could be harnessed for carbon farming, too. These areas could be rediscovered for carbon capture and utilization for climate change adaptation; for ex. short rotation coppicing in the cut-away peatlands. Sustainable exploitation of targeted project lands and fields in NP, needs implementation models that benefit landowners and policy makes and biodiversity, too. \nProject aim is to build up operational model for the Northern periphery to re-utilize these areas for carbon capture and utilization (CCU) in the biodiversity maintaining way. Sustainability covers the cooperation of stakeholders, encourages entrepreneurship development for improved regional economy and maintain biodiversity. To succeed with this, landowners needs incomes to maintain the synergy between carbon management and biodiversity sustaining. This is the unique aspect of our project: to synergize effective CCU and develop existing biodiversity indicator system at the same. Presently there are difficulties to estimate the biodiversity effects as the schemes of CCU in biological systems are hardly meeting existing biodiversity indicator classifications. \nWith the transnational co-operation, beneficial development of sparsely populated communities in Northern periphery is achieved, and results in innovative solutions for carbon capture and utilization. Concrete result from the project is procedure to plan the sustainable utilization of these areas with common awareness of possibilities and threats gained.","2022-12-01","2023-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","058 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: floods and landslides (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches)","N",99085,"Other, ERDF",32464.25,65,"Objective for the preparatory project BioDiver was to develop Main project application for Project \"Biodiversity sustaining carbon management in degraded lands and cut-away peatlands in Northern \nperiphery and Arctic regions\". Idea of the project is to build up operational models for the Northern periphery to re-utilize these degraded areas in a sustainable way. Sustainability covers all aspects of sustainability: environmental, economic and social in the forms of carbon capture and biodiversity sustaining, regional economy. To succeed with this, it has to be clear that landowners of the degraded lands are provided with models for livelihood possibilities to synergizing carbon management and biodiversity sustaining and indicators to prove it. \nIn the preparatory project, it was possible to define bacground and stakeholder groups involved in these degraded areas and their utilization. Also, for background, overview of policies and example lands were possible to define and definition \"nature management\" was taken into use.  \nAs a result, four nature management schemes were found as interesting for sustainable degraded land reutilization schemes: restoration, recreation and well-being, agriculture and sustainable energy and bioproducts. From these schemes, four value chains were chosen for economic analysis and biodiversity indicators development on degraded lands: rehabilitation, ecotourism, regenerative agriculture and short rotation forestry. \n","Reykjavík, Trondheim, Joensuu","IS, NO, FI",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0400110","Carbon Management for Building Resilience: Local Capacity Development for Sustainable Resource Management, Climate Change Adaptation, and Carbon Mitigation in Sparsely Populated Communities","The project aims to address the common challenges of climate change and sustainable resource management in sparsely populated communities across the NPA region.\n\nThe programme area faces several common challenges related to climate change and sustainable resource management, including the impact of climate change on natural resources and the environment, as well as the need for sustainable resource management practices. However, there are also opportunities for new technologies and innovations to support sustainable development.\n\nThe overall objective of the project is to jointly develop a main project proposal on climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention in sparsely populated communities. The project aims to build local capacity in sustainable resource management, landscape breeding, and carbon assessment, utilizing innovative tools and ecosystem-based approaches. \nThe main outputs of the project include the main project proposal, action plans, transnational network. The project outputs will benefit local communities, policymakers, and stakeholders involved in natural resource management.\n\nThe project adopts a transnational approach as the challenges and opportunities related to climate change and sustainable resource management are cross-border in nature. A transnational approach allows for the sharing of knowledge, expertise, and best practices, creating opportunities for mutual learning and capacity building.\n\nWhat sets this project apart is the collaboration of experts from different fields and different countries to address the common challenges of climate change and sustainable resource management. The project seeks to create new transnational networks and strengthen existing ones, fostering collaboration and cooperation across borders to create a more sustainable future for the NPA region. The project's transnational approach and emphasis on collaboration and knowledge-sharing are also innovative and forward-thinking.","2023-06-01","2024-05-31","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","060 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: others, e.g. storms and drought (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches)","N",99832.62,"ERDF",64891.2,65,"The CARBOVISION project's preparatory phase successfully established a robust foundation for a comprehensive proposal aimed at climate change adaptation and sustainable resource management in sparsely populated communities within the Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) region. This phase addressed key challenges such as climate vulnerability and the sustainable management of natural resources, achieving significant progress in the following areas:\n\nCapacity Building:\nThe project enhanced local capacity for climate change adaptation by sharing the experiences of participating partners on strategies for sustainable resource management. Transnational cooperation allowed for effective knowledge sharing among partners, particularly in landscape breeding and sustainable forestry practices.\n\nTransnational Networks:\nA critical success was the creation of strong transnational networks that facilitated knowledge exchange across borders. The collaboration between the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and Oulu University of Applied Sciences (OAMK) proved vital. Each partner brought unique expertise. New partners in Iceand, Ireland, Greenland.\n\nNeeds Assessment and Feasibility Analysis:\nThe project team conducted thorough needs assessments and feasibility studies, engaging with local stakeholders to evaluate the specific challenges of the NPA region. These analyses guided the development of strategies and action plans tailored to the community needs and regional context, ensuring the project's relevance and impact.\n\nProposal Development:\nThe preparatory funding enabled the creation of a detailed and actionable main project proposal. This proposal includes a clear work plan, defined timelines, and a robust budget that addresses both technical and financial aspects. It outlines specific objectives aimed at enhancing climate resilience and promoting sustainable resource use in NPA communities.\n\nAchievement of Objectives\nThe preparatory phase successfully met its objectives by creating a solid foundation for the main project. The collaboration among partners enabled resource and expertise sharing, resulting in a well-rounded proposal that addresses the specific needs of the NPA region. The project is poised to make a significant impact on enhancing climate resilience and promoting sustainable resource use.\n\nAdded-Value of Cooperation\nThe transnational nature of the project was crucial, allowing the combination of diverse skills and knowledge. The cooperation fostered mutual learning, expected to have long-term benefits beyond the project's lifespan, potentially influencing policy and practice in sustainable resource management and climate adaptation.\n\nIn summary, the CARBOVISION preparatory phase was highly successful, achieving its goals and laying a strong foundation for future work. The achievements in capacity building, network development, and innovation demonstrate the project's potential to significantly impact climate change adaptation and sustainable resource management in the NPA region.","Oulu, Umeå, Joensuu","FI, SE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0600153","3D Printing with Bio-based Materials in a Circular Economy Context","This preparatory project’s core objective is to establish the groundwork for a larger-scale initiative to promote circular economies in remote, sparsely populated regions within the NPA areas. The project strategy revolves around exploiting the transformative power of 3D printing technology and locally sourced bio-based materials to drive sustainable manufacturing.\n\nCreating circular economies in such unique and challenging regions presents formidable obstacles, predominantly from limited access to low-volume manufacturing technologies and the scarcity of secondary raw materials, which are pivotal for realizing circularity. However, these rural areas often possess underutilized reserves of bio-based resources, presenting an untapped potential for enhancing self-sufficiency and resilience.\n\nWithin this context, 3D printing, specifically the material extrusion process, emerges as an exceptionally versatile and dynamic technology, excelling in crafting personalized products tailored to niche markets and low-volume plastic production. A pivotal aspect of 3D printing is its capacity to fabricate replacement parts, thereby extending the operational lifespan of products and cultivating a culture of repair and longevity.\n\nBy strategically applying this technology locally, the project aspires to significantly boost the circularity of plastics and other resources in remote areas. This approach effectively mitigates the carbon footprint associated with the traditional linear production model. Moreover, creating new products from recycled or upcycled plastics, combined with bio-based materials such as fibers and fillers, opens up exciting possibilities for establishing entirely localized value chains. Furthermore, the project envisions establishing local closed-loop systems, where end-of-life 3D-printed products are systematically collected and recycled into fresh, functional prints representing circularity.\n\nWithin the context of the bio-based industry, agriculture and forestry, side streams - often considered waste - can serve as valuable sources of replacement materials, replacing traditional synthetic or high-energy-embedding materials across a spectrum of applications. This innovative and sustainable approach strongly aligns with the core principles of sustainability, resource efficiency, and the circular economy.\n\nThe preparatory project’s primary focus is on two critical aspects: firstly, the comprehensive assessment of locally available secondary bio-based raw materials in two specific regions, namely South-West in Ireland and Centria Ostrobothnia in Finland. Secondly, the project aims to scrutinize the quality and compatibility of these materials concerning their applicability in the 3D printing process, with a specific emphasis on the material extrusion method. Ultimately, the predominant goal is to lay down the foundational framework for the subsequent development of a main project that integrates 3D printing with locally sourced bio-based materials, creating the potential for a robust circular value chain across NPA countries.\n\nTo actualize these objectives, the project will proactively identify and establish collaborative partnerships with stakeholders across the entire supply chain. These partnerships will encompass bio-based material providers and processors, 3D printing infrastructure owners, higher education institutes, and business support organizations. The aimed comprehensive main project will contain participants from at least three NPA countries.\n\nRecognizing that the value chains being created are inherently local, the project strategically leverages a transnational development team. This approach creates a diverse and expansive pool of resources, expertise, best practices, and cutting-edge technologies that collectively enhance the quality and impact of innovations within the local context.","2023-12-01","2024-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","072 Use of recycled materials as raw materials compliant with the efficiency criteria","N",98150,"ERDF",63797.5,65,"The overall objective of this preparatory project was to lay a strong foundation for a main project aimed at building sustainable circular economies in remote and sparsely populated NPA regions. The project sought to refine the main project objectives, engage key stakeholders, and evaluate the feasibility of conducting 3D printing trials using locally available bio-based materials. \n\nThe project successfully identified and established collaborative partnerships with stakeholders for both the preparatory phase and the main proposal. During the preparatory project, underutilized natural fibers such as wool industry rejects, seaweed, and tree bark from the bio-based industry were identified within the region. MTU collaborated with Allihies Seafood Ltd and Dooley Wool to source samples of seaweed and Irish wool, which were packaged and sent to CENTRIA in Finland for compounding. MTU also engaged with WAZP, a 3D printing company, a potential end-user of the compounded materials, to better understand their filament requirements and assess their ongoing interest in a scale-up project. Centria held discussions with Innomost Oy, a bio-based company specializing in tree bark utilization for producing bio-based chemicals. These discussions facilitated the supply of inner and outer bark samples for feasibility tests planned as part of the BIOPRINT project.\n\nFor the main project proposal, Centria and MTU collaborated to identify suitable stakeholders across the value chain, from suppliers to end-users. This effort resulted in the formation of a strong consortium comprising six core partners: four research organizations, one NGO, and one SME. To further strengthen the project activities, 13 additional organizations joined the consortium, including 10 businesses, two cooperatives, and one business support organization.\n\nAmong the three underutilized fibers identified: inner bark, outer bark, and seaweed, each was processed with polylactic acid (PLA) and polypropylene (PP) to produce corresponding bio-composite granules. Granules made from inner bark and PP were selected for 3D printing using the fused granular fabrication method, and tests were conducted to evaluate the properties of the printed samples. Similarly, PLA- and PP-based granules incorporating seaweed, inner bark, and outer bark as fillers were converted into 3D printing filaments, which were then printed to assess the properties of the resulting parts.\n\nThe findings revealed that composites made from outer bark and PLA demonstrated the best tensile performance among all the tested materials. In contrast, seaweed and inner bark require further investigation to enhance the properties of printed products. While seaweed-based filaments passed the handling tests, they exhibited brittleness, indicating the need for additional research to fully unlock the potential of seaweed fillers in bio-based composites.\nDuring the project, wool was mechanically size-reduced; however, further material modifications are necessary to make it suitable for producing composite granules. Initial observations highlight the critical role of precise temperature control in improving material properties and ensuring successful outcomes with these biopolymer composite filaments.\n\nThe results of the feasibility study underscore the need for modifications to the fillers to make them more suitable as raw materials for 3D printing. These findings pave the way for refining material formulations and enhancing their performance in additive manufacturing applications.\n\nFollowing extensive stakeholder discussions and an evaluation of the feasibility test results, the objective of the main project was refined and expanded to include concrete 3D printing alongside polymer-based 3D printing. The project also aims to develop additives for polymer composites to address the challenges identified in the pre-study. Additionally, agricultural waste and byproducts from bio-based industries were incorporated as new material sources, broadening the project's scope and sustainability focus.\n\nFinally, the collective efforts of the BIOPRINT project partners, along with valuable insights from other project partners and associated partners, led to the development and submission of the main project proposal for funding.\n","Tralee, Kokkola","IE, FI",{"$nulls":5},2]
["NPA0600158","Cascading use of side streams to produce sustainable battery chemicals","NPA regions are appealing to battery producers due to abundant space, primary resources, infrastructure, chemical industries, and access to renewable energy sources like geothermal and wind power. To boost self-sufficiency, reduce emissions from supply chains, create more jobs along the supply chain and enhance sustainability, there's a need to further tap into local raw materials for battery manufacturing. Silicon, emerging as a superior alternative to graphite for energy storage, offers promise. Sand as silicate mineral is a silicon source available in NPA. However, excavation of it as any mining carries environmental risks, including habitat disruption and concerns about scarcity in the future due to increasing demand in various industries. \n\nSilicon-containing compounds can be found in unconventional sources such as agricultural residues like grain husks, algae, and geothermal energy production brines. Our strategy involves maximizing the value derived from industrial and agricultural by-products by cascade processing thereby enhancing resource efficiency and minimizing waste. It creates new business prospects also outside the battery manufacturing supply chain. \n\nThe objective of this preparatory project is to foster collaboration among research organizations and industries in the NPA region to enhance innovation capacity in the exploration of alternative locally available silicon-containing resources for the battery sector. This objective aligns with NPA and regional initiatives by emphasizing policies that prioritize regional innovation and growth. \n\nRecognizing the complexity of battery technology development, which requires diverse expertise, infrastructure and human resources, this transnational approach aims to prevent fragmented efforts, redundancy, knowledge gaps, and missed synergies. Additionally, it addresses supply chain resilience, mitigating risks during resource scarcity or disruptions.\n\nIn this preparatory project, we perform initial screening of potential silicon-containing sources in NPA areas and preliminary evaluation of suitability as a raw material for the manufacturing of batteries. The main outcome of this preparatory project is a full application for submission under the 2021-2027 NPA programme.","2023-12-01","2024-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","029 Research and innovation processes, technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and universities, focusing on the low carbon economy, resilience and adaptation to climate change","N",99996,"ERDF",45520.15,65,"The preparatory project aimed to foster collaboration among research organizations and industries in the NPA region to prepare the development plan for enhancing innovation capacity in the exploration of alternative, locally available silicon-containing resources for the battery sector. This work formed the basis for a follow-up project proposal BATTSi, which has been submitted for funding under the 5th call of the Interreg NPA programme.\n\nDuring the preparatory phase, potential industrial and natural sources of silicon were identified, and preliminary tests were conducted to assess their suitability for battery applications. The research explored a variety of industrial by-products, including brewer's spent grain and barley husk from the alcohol and brewing industry, geothermal brine (geobrine) from energy production in Iceland, and several natural plants such as horsetail, ferns, reed canary grass and algae.\n\nBased on the findings, horsetail, fern and barley husk exhibited high silica content. However, the lack of established cultivation and harvesting technology for the natural plants presents a significant barrier to their adoption by the industry. Consequently, for future development, the project has prioritized industrial biomass sources such as barley husk and  brewer’s spent grain. These sources are advantageous because they are available in larger quantities, are readily collected in centralized locations, and are accessible year-round, making them more feasible for industrial applications. With the optimization of reduction from silica to battery grade silicon processes, these industrial sources show great potential for quicker uptake and utilization within the industry. \n\nNotably, geobrine stands out as a particularly promising source of silica due to its abundance. Although geobrine contains some impurities, it is primarily composed of silica, and with the appropriate purification technologies, it can be further refined for use in the battery sector.\n\nIn addition to identifying potential resources, the project engaged in extensive consultations with stakeholders to assess industry needs and challenges related to the development and adoption of new technologies. A total of 26 stakeholders were contacted, leading to the establishment of a partnership of 16 organizations, which will work together to further develop the technology and create the core of an transnational innovation ecosystem. The broad engagement of partners has been instrumental in aligning the project with industry needs and ensuring the involvement of key expertise to support the successful implementation of the proposed project."," Reykjavik, Kuopio, Kokkola","IS, FI",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0500123","Adapting oats to final Frontier","Our objective is to increase possibilities for oat cultivation within the NPA region. Oat is selected because it has well recognized positive health effects and its consumption for food is increasing and oat is also a resilient crop that demands less fungicides and tolerates lower soil pH compared to wheat and barley. Our consortium representing both local plant breeders and R&D partners across NPA countries has unique oat-expertise and uniquely diverse oat material needed to overcome the greatest obstacles limiting the cultivation: lack of adapted cultivars and lack of knowledge on oat cultivation. Ee will gather and test a set of 400 oats that have unseen diversity coming from four separate sources including modern oat cultivars, landraces and crosses with wild oat relatives. We will use new genetic information produced by sequencing together with field performance data that we will gather from 8 different NPA locations.","2023-12-01","2026-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","028 Technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and higher education sector","N",1681051.34,"Other, ERDF",698702.16,65,"In the first project period OatFrontiers project focused on analysing and selecting available material for the project and planning and agreeing upon common play rules. In addition we also started to spread information about the project. \n\nMore than 400 different oats were genotyped at Luke and the data was analysed together with data from Nordgen collection and Irish heritage oats by LU and Luke. As a result we were able to determine a collection of genetically highly variable oat lines (here on called as OatFrontiers CORE) that was sent for field trials for 8 partners and 1 associate partner and that will be utilised in the search of new oat traits that help in the future field performance and quality production in the extreme conditions of Northern periphery areas. In collaboration with the plant breeder partners (Boreal, Graminor, LM, Goldcrop), Teagasc and new collaborators such as Aberyswyth university in Wales and a company representing their cultivars (Senova) we selected 30 common cultivars to be tested across the NPA in order to determine the best cultivars from the currently available material. \n\nJoint practices of field trials (how the field trials should be managed, when and how things should be measured from the fields) were agreed upon and we also made a plan for long term storage of project data. \n\nNewsletters, field days and the 1st stakeholder workshop were designed and the 1st newsletter was distributed in all participating countries.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWIthin period 2 the project started pilot experiments in all participating countries, organized field days and stakeholder workshop that brought together a high number of stakeholders. All partners actively participated to project implementation and held on to their tasks. True collaboration between breeding enterprises, universities and reseach institutions belonging to project partners was already achieved. The first set of pilot experiments created promising preliminary information about oat performance in different NPA locations. Field events, newsletter and the stakeholder workshop were utilised for communicating about the project. First face-to-face project meeting in Iceland was successfull and increased the spirit of the collaboration. .","Lund, Kapp, Jokioinen, Dublin, XE12, Ireland, Svalöv, Ridabu , Ås, Borgarbyggð , Jyväskylä","SE, NO, FI, IE, IS",{"$nulls":5},10]
["NPA0300095","Business Models Empowering Rural Social Entrepreneurship – voicing the rural norm","The impact of globalization on structural changes varies across regions, making sustainable regional and local development essential. The MERSE project aims to facilitate the establishment and growth of social enterprises in rural NPA areas. It focuses on developing business models, support systems, and conditions for rural social enterprises, promoting transnational knowledge and learning of social entrepreneurship, and creating networks to strengthen social entrepreneurship in sparsely populated NPA regions. The project emphasizes collaboration, action-oriented development, and transformative knowledge sharing across borders.","2023-07-01","2026-06-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","021 SME business development and internationalisation, including productive investments","N",1703053.34,"Other, ERDF",809179.51,65,"The project start occurred during holiday periods in the partner countries, which meant that the first\nonline partner meeting could be held on 25 August, however, this meeting was preceded by 2 project meetings (21 April and 29 May) in connection with the granting of the project on 22 March. During the period, LP preparations and the establishment of the project's management and a communicator were attached to the project. The project manager and controller participated in a mandatory Lead Partner meeting NPA held in Copenhagen on 23 May. Project partners from Sweden and Norway participated in NPA yearly conference and in the Lead Partner seminar in Skellefteå on the 8th-9th November.\nA steering group, consisting of a representative from all project partners, was formed in June and\nhad its first meeting on 22 June and the second on 3 November. During the project period, all project\npartners' contacts were coordinated. A further 4 associated partners were contacted, of which 3\njoined the project.\nMuch of the time during the period was spent establishing contacts and collaborations as well as planning the implementation of project activities. During the period, MIUN and Coompanion worked with preparations ie. invitations, travel and hotel arrangements, and program design, for MERSE's kickoff conference. The kick-off took place on 16-17 October in Östersund with project and associate partners' participation. During the meeting, the participants visited several Swedish social enterprises in the Jämtland region.\nThe partners started with the literature review using a constructed template and started as well with the mapping of conditions for SE in the partner countries and regions.\nDuring the period WP1 was initiated included planning of mapping and comparison of obstacles and opportunities for social entrepreneurship in the partner regions as well as documenting best practise examples. We have also started the literature review by defining the topics to look for in the country-specific literature on rural SEs. Some planning for WP2 was done as welMaximum All partners have also worked with follow-up and reporting of the project.\nDuring the period, the project group has had regular online project meetings and the steering group met once.\nThe project members have participated in the second physical project meeting in Iceland on April 8-11. At the meeting, the progress of WP1 and preliminary results were discussed. The project meeting in Iceland involved the project's partners and associated partners, where we jointly conducted workshops on MERSE's implementation of WP1 and the start of WP2 on July 1, 2024. During the period, the work continued with WP1 which involved a mapping and comparison of obstacles and opportunities for social entrepreneurship in the partner regions. This was accomplished through:\na) A literature review regarding the state of knowledge for social entrepreneurship in the five partner countries. The result will be further processed by MIUN in the fall of 2024.\nb) A comparative study of the partner countries' conditions for social entrepreneurs by comparing the entrepreneurial ecosystems of the social enterprises in the project's 5 countries based on data presented in the European Social Enterprise monitor from 2020. The result will be further processed by MIUN in the fall of 2024.\nc) A survey to 395 rural social entrepreneurs and social enterprises regarding the conditions for SE in their country. The questionnaires were designed in an English version and then translated by project partners into resp. country's language so that respondents could answer in their own language and MIUN distributed all the questionnaires in Netigate. The project partners translated the open answers back into English. The results (21% response rate) will be processed in autumn 2024.\nd) A survey to 403  business support organisations in the partner countries regarding the support they provide to rural social enterprises in the five partner countries. MIUN prepared together with partners the questionnaires in English and distributed the questionnaires to all respondents. The results (13% response rate) of the survey will be processed in autumn 2024.\ne)  Interviews of 21-23  decision-makers in municipalities (Finland is missing) regarding knowledge of and conditions for social enterprises in a selection of the partner regions' municipalities. The results of the study will be processed in autumn 2024.\n\n13 best practice examples from partner countries were identified and interviewed (Finlands is missing) All published on MERSE's mini website.\n\nThe project has carried out the procurement of a new peer-to-peer leadership learning concept (Output 2:5) which will be provided by the organisation, Social Enterprise Academy, who will carry out the\"leadership training program targeted to social enterprise facilitators who are provided tools and methods to support rural social enterprises in the Nordic regions\" specified in the application. The methodology of the training should be based on a comparative cross-border approach which enables learning from experiences and contexts and finding new solutions and contribute to the online training platform (Output 2.1). During the period we started to recruit in total 12 social entrepreneurs from the partner countries who will participate in the pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in the project (Output 2:3 and one of the solutions in indicator RCR104_1.3). The program will start on the 5th of September 2024.\n\nThe project's communicator developed the project-mandatory mini website on NPA's website, see https://www.interreg-npa.eu/projects/merse/home/. This has been continuously updated with news and results from MERSE available to anyone with internet access.\nMERSE participated in a mandatory “Regional project day” organised by Region Jämtland – Härjedalen.\nMERSE participated in “EU in my Region”, April 2024.\nThe project had a meeting with Region Jämtland Härjedalen's Regional Development Strategist and was able to contribute with our insights into the effect and importance of EU-funded projects have for the region and European cohesion.\nAll project partners have provided their best Horisontal Principles examples to the LP. A compilation of these was distributed to partners for the voting of the HPs that MERSE will implement during the project period.\nDuring the period, the project group has had regular online project meetings and the steering group met twice. Since October we have had more frequent project meetings i.e. every month.\nThe project partners and a few associate partners participated in a third physical partner meeting in Glasgow,  Ireland on October 15-16, program and participant list are attached. At the meeting (see attached agenda), preliminary results from the mapping  in WP1 were displayed and discussed. During the project meeting in Ireland we also made more plans for the activities in WP2 and distributed the responsibility for the different WP2 activities in 2024-2025 between partners. \nIn this period we started the Leadership programme for social enterprise facilitators led by the procured organisation Social Enterprise Academy in Scotland. The first online meeting for the 12 recruited social enterprises (3 from Iceland, 3 from Ireland, 2 from Norway, 2 from Finland, 2 from Sweden) was on September 5. The facilitator programme participants met in person for a one week programme in Galway, Ireland from September 14-18, see attached participant list.\nDuring the period several workshops, seminars and meetings has been arranged by the partners in the respective region to discuss conditions for SEs and to communicate and engage stakeholders to various MERSE activities. Important new connections has been developed in and between stakeholders the partner regions. \nDuring the period, the work continued to process the data from our mapping in WP1 and also with the communication of the results. On December 11 the project conducted an online kick-off international conference with stakeholders interested in the question of: what is needed to make it easier to start and develop social enterprises in rural areas. There were 92 participants registered to the conference from all five partner countries. During in the conference we presented results from the mapping and comparing of the countries. There were also presentations from a social enterprise, a SE support organisation, a municipality and a researcher of rural SEs, see programme. All presentations can be found on the MERSE mini-website.\n\nAdditionally, together with an expert in rural entrepreneurship in Iceland, we organized an online webinar together with the Regional Development Agencies in the rest of Iceland focusing on the entrepreneurial process. This webinar was a part of a series organized in collaboration with the regional development agencies in all of Iceland, this one was the first one and we have already planned to host one specifically on social entrepreneurship in fall 2025. \n\n\nThe project's communicator continued to update the mini-website with presentations of all the participating partners and facilitators see https://www.interreg-npa.eu/projects/merse/home/. The website and social media has been continuously updated with news and results from MERSE available to anyone with internet access.\n","Mikkeli, Ísafjörður, Galway, Trondheim, Sundsvall, Östersund","FI, IS, IE, NO, SE",{"$nulls":5},6]
["NPA0100045","Energy & Resource Recovery from Wastewater for Circular Economy","ENFORCE aims to develop a resource efficient wastewater management model that will reduce water and environmental footprint of wastewater treatment provisions in the region to ensure sustainability. Innovative and sustainable solutions are necessary for reducing carbon footprint and transition to a circular and resource-efficient economy. Wastewater is recognized as a renewable energy resource, and the source of many other nutrients that can be recovered and can contribute to achieve circular economy targets. However, current wastewater treatment plants & management practices in the region are not efficient enough to recover energy and nutrients that wastewater contains. The partially treated or untreated discharge of effluent into the environment becomes an environmental hazard which is exacerbated by climate change impacts. Circular economy principles can be implemented in wastewater treatment in the form of re-cycle, re-use, nutrients recovery, and energy recovery. This provides energy and locally available resources (e.g. potential for Nitrogen and Phosphorous to offset fertilizer imports) and for reduced environmental impacts through reduced N and P discharges. Efficient use of the wastewater resources, power consuming wastewater treatment plants can be converted into future energy generation hubs and resource recovery plants. This can provide business and economic opportunities to communities (many are quite small & remote) within the region. \nThe project will conduct an analysis of the current provisions and legal framework within the region. Different technologies for energy and resource recovery from wastewater and value chain will be studied. The LCA, techno-economical, social, assessment of the overall value chain will be conducted and compared to existing practices of discharging wastewater to surface waters. Based upon the evaluation a circular business model to transform wastewater treatment plants into resource recovery water hubs will be proposed.","2022-12-01","2026-05-31","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","072 Use of recycled materials as raw materials compliant with the efficiency criteria","N",1298612.87,"ERDF",216602.79,65,"At this stage the project is in its initial data gathering phase. We delivered the first deliverable regarding the existing wastewater management practices within the NPA region of Faroe Island, Ireland, and Northern Norway. The information on the size of the treatment plants, technologies used, energy consumption, discharge quality is collected which is  essential  to assess the potential of implementing circular economy in the wastewater.  There are gaps within the  existing wastewater management scenarios and the policies in the three regions. It is observed that advanced wastewater treatment is not yet a norm in the region. In Northern Norway and Faroe Islands only mechanical treatment is considered adequate for treating sewage water before discharge.  \nThe next stage will be analyzing the potential of implementing circular economy in wastewater. \nThe project has successfully finished Work Package 1 and activities are on-going to complete Work Package 2. With this report we are submitted Deliverable 1.2 - Circular Economy Assessment in Wastewater Management in the NPA regions covered by the partnership. This deliverable is an on-going document which will be updated as progress is made. In particular, With the change of partner in the Faroe Islands the information for this region will be upgraded.\n\nBased on this report, recommendations to move further towards the approach of circular economy in wastewater management in the region have been given below.\n\n- Develop and maintain resilient wastewater treatment infrastructure that can adapt to a variety of weather conditions and climate changes, ensuring consistent operational efficiency.\n- Increase funding for circular economy practices in wastewater treatment. Encourage both public and private sector investments in sustainable technologies.\n- Establish stringent regulatory standards for effluent water quality. Invest in cutting-edge technologies to improve water purification processes and enable the reuse of treated water in agricultural or industrial applications.\n- Perform cost-benefit analyses to balance initial investments with long-term savings and consider modular technologies that allow for scalable expansions.\n \nBuild infrastructure to support the distribution of treated wastewater for non-potable uses, promoting sustainability by closing the loop in the water cycle.\nDuring RP3 the partnership have been active in WPs 1 and 2. All partners worked collaboratively to shape and unify the report resulting from RP1 (Deliverable ..........). Our new partner in the Faroe Islands, The Environment Agency, who are active from RP3 are reviewing and updating the information provided for the Faroe Islands during year 1 of the project. When this new information is completed we will have benchmarked all of the study regions in our project. \n\nWP2 all partners are preparing inputs for the case studies in each region to be reported in RP4.\n\nFaroe Islands have involved the representatives of four (4) municipalities to provide them with information regarding current WW management provisions  and procedures and information relating to future improvement plans.\n\nUiT hosted a 2-day event, Vanndammen, for water industry and businesses and ENFORCE was presented which led to meetings with regional stakeholders (Narvik Vann, Lofoten Kommune, Narvik Kommune, industry representative Huber Technology, based in Honefoss, that provides wastewater solutions. A follow up meeting with Huber Technology is being planned for end May 2025.\n\nArctic Experts focused on all the wastewater infrastructure and management in the Bodo region of Norway, especially with the help of Bodo Kommune they received and reviewed official drainage masterplan up to and including 2026. They have identified and prioritised the sites in the Norwegian region suitable for circular economy scenario modelling.\n\n","Argir , Bodø , Galway, Narvik","FO, NO, IE",{"$nulls":5},4]
["NPA0400119","Connected Technology to support the Health of the Working Population in Northern Remote Areas","Ireland and Finland are challenged to enhance the healthcare and life quality of the working population. Key causes of disability of people of working age in Europe come from increasingly chronic health conditions and inadequate disability support systems, e.g.,\n no access to employment or health care services to sustain employment, risk of poverty, and social exclusion. Northern Europe has disparities in healthcare access, mainly in rural areas with fewer comprehensive healthcare services. Poor health in working older people with chronic diseases and inadequate healthcare leads to early retirement, resulting in fewer tax contributors. The cost of treating physical disability in Europe depends on its severity and the treatment needed, with a typical average cost between €500 - €2,500 per month. Consequently, accessible and cost-effective digital healthcare in remote NPA areas is essential to reduce chronic disease effects on the quality and length of people’s working lives.\n\nConsidering the common healthcare challenges, this project will adopt digital technology-based solutions (Spec Obj \n\n1.2) to enable enhanced healthcare services in the NPA region. The feasibility study will analyze the uptake of connected digital health technology to support proactive and preventive healthcare models for national health services. It will also examine the trade-off between the two and how they can improve the health of older working people in northern areas. It will examine why the uptake of connected health technologies has fallen short of predictions. The key outcomes of this study will guide the design of the main project. The objectives of the main project will be to influence the relevant EU healthcare professionals, policymakers, and health authorities to make the necessary changes to improve remote healthcare services; and to enable the working population to participate more in taking care of their own health, supported by an innovative digital connected health system.","2023-06-01","2023-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.2. Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","016 Government ICT solutions, e-services, applications","N",48990.68,"ERDF",31843.93,65,"The main objective of the project was to build a consortium and submit a main project proposal to NPA Interreg programme. This was achieved. To get to that point we had to carry out a feasibility study of the project concept, to ensure it was a viable idea, develop a communication strategy, build a suitable consortium of partners from across the NPA regions, and finally develop the main proposal with the new consortium. \n\nThe state-of-the-art review was carried out for both the Irish and Finnish working landscapes to examine the evidence for the health-related causes for increased absenteeism and early retirement among older workers. This review is summarised by the following Aims/Objectives and Research questions\n\nAim and Objectives: \n1) Identify the main problems in the working environment related to absenteeism and early retirement in the NPA countries.\n2) Organise and poll stakeholders regarding their life-work situation.\n3) Identify and review cases where technologies have been used to monitor the well-being of workers for preventive or reactive healthcare models. \n\nResearch questions :\n1) What are the main causes and consequences of work absenteeism in the NPA regions? Identify common causes. \n2) Discover whether stakeholders are interested in greater awareness of their work/life balance situation and /or improving it.\n3) Can technologies help to monitor the health issues which lead to absenteeism and early retirement?\n\nThe full State of the Art Review  Report is attached. It was observed that absenteeism and early retirement related to illness result in detrimental consequences to employers, such as reduced productivity, not meeting deadlines, putting the reduced staff numbers under pressure, and financial loss.  Also, it was observed that the majority of the illness-related cases are linked to musculoskeletal problems or anxiety/depression. In addition, some sectors are at higher risk of work-related illness than others. Working conditions and work-life balance are key to predicting work-related illness. Ubiquitous technologies, such as wearables, have shown that they, if used ethically, can provide enhanced awareness to employees and employers regarding working conditions and work-life balance. As part of the review stakeholder groups in Ireland and Finland were surveyed on their attitudes and readiness for digital monitoring technology as part of employer occupational health strategy. The results were broadly positive.\n\nA Communications Plan was developed to address the partner search. The search was focused on obtaining partners' attributes that would complement the existing Irish-Finnish academic skillset. Occupational therapists, psychologists, e-health specialists, and a regional authority with responsibility for developing healthcare systems in rural and sparsely populated areas - were added to the project. The final consortium consists of 5 partners from 4 countries, Ireland, Finland, Sweden and Norway.\n\nThe feasibility study analysed the uptake of connected digital health technology to support proactive and preventive healthcare models for national health services. It also examined the trade-off between the two and how they can improve the health of older working people in northern areas. It examined why the uptake of connected health technologies has fallen short of predictions. The key outcomes of this study guided the design of the main project. The main project was developed with the consortium and submitted to the NPA Interreg 4th Call in February 2024. The objectives of the main project will be to influence the relevant EU healthcare professionals, policymakers, and health authorities to make the necessary changes to improve remote healthcare services; and to enable the working population to participate more in taking care of their own health, supported by an innovative digital connected health system. Considering the shared healthcare challenges across the NPA region, this project will adopt digital technology-based solutions (Spec Obj 1.2) to enable enhanced healthcare services in the NPA region. ","Oulu, Letterkenny","FI, IE",{"$nulls":5},2]
["NPA0400115","Self-management of health and wellbeing in rural areas","The partners would like to develop the vision outlined below in order to apply for the NPA call in October \n\n2023.\n\nThe overall vision of the project is to improve access for people living in rural areas to culturally-sensitive health and well-being self-management services, supported by an innovative framework that will increase collaboration and knowledge sharing across borders in the NPA regions.\n\nThe main outputs from the project will be:\n-\tMapping of the current support and services for citizens living in the regions\n-\tMapping of how the regions use of remote telemedicine solutions occurs within self-management\n-\tDocumenting challenges and barriers regarding citizen participation and treatment using digital self-management tools\n-\tDescription of how families and carers are being included in the support of the citizen\n-\tHow digital transformation can be developed and improved within cultural sensitive services to obtain a more integrated health and active citizen participation\n-\tHow would a new service model support citizens living in extreme sparsely populated areas with reference to leading model areas in the Nordics and Europe\n-\tGuideline for implementing self-management solutions to support culturally-sensitive integration in rural areas\n-\tRecommendations and a roadmap for implementation of a new service model in the NPA region.\n\nThe project approach will be an iterative and agile methodology that will ensure partner and end-user involvement through co-development, co-design and knowledge sharing across the partners and their eco-systems. \n\nThe vision is innovative as it will identify the components needed to be able to implement culturally-sensitive health and well-being self-management services for the selected target groups in the NPA region. The results from the project would be a stepping stone to scale the culturally-sensitive health and well-being self-management services to other populations in the NPA region.","2023-06-01","2023-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.2. Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","016 Government ICT solutions, e-services, applications","N",50000,"Other, ERDF",15291.64,65,"As project methodology the project team agreed to be inspired by the Norwegian model ‘Roadmap for Service innovation’ as a guideline for digital transformation of healthcare and care services.\n\nBased on the 'Roadmap for service innovation' the project team agreed to select the first steps to be completed and described in relation to the project goals and agreed target groups. The steps to be completed and that will support the completion of the preparatory project idea was the following steps:\n\n1) Define problems and set goals - understanding what the challenges and needs are and the common denominators between the target groups\n2) Explore the gains - Carry our early assessments of where the greatest potential exists for the achieving positive effects in the short and long term\n3) Setting the right team - Understand how to build an interdisciplinary team that supports innovation efforts and safeguards quality and progress\n4) Identify stakeholders and plan anchoring work - Identify which individuals will be affected by the project and identification of primary stakeholders.\n\nThe project identified the common denominators between the target groups with focus on the challenges regarding self-management and access to healthcare and care in an easy way. This work lead into the agreeing on the project theme and the final cohorts to be integrated in the project:\n\n'Connecting to isolated and mobile populations with culturally appropriate and integrated digital health and care solutions'\n\nThe citizens which the project will focus on are disconnected groups who are trying to self-manage their own health and connect in an equitable way with a health and care system that is understandable, culturally appropriate, manageable, and very quickly generates high level of trust:\n\n- Refugee and asylum seekers populations in Ireland\n- Reindeer herders’ access to healthcare services\n- Fisherman in the North Atlantic in transit for long periods\n- Ageing population living independently in remote, rural, and isolated Icelandic areas\n\nThe common thread between the target groups is one of marginalisation, disconnection, disempowerment, and low levels of trust and understanding.\n\nThe aim of this project therefore is to create a digital service model to improve self-care and self-management and create culturally appropriate and equitable access to the health and care system, which is easy to navigate, manageable and create high levels of trust and familiarity from the outset.\n\nThe cooperation in project team has been very positive and not at least innovative in seeking solutions and problem solving. There has been very good energy and willingness to work together on a topic that all 4 partners would benefit in the long run to find a suitable service model for.\n\nThe added value of the cooperation has been to understand the common challenges that exists in the different target areas and understanding that we do have the same or similar challenges that would benefit that we together find a common digital service model that will support the selected target group.\n\nThe project team held 10 Teams meetings where alignment and agreement on tasks was the primary focus. Furthermore, the project team meet up for a two-day workshop in Akureyri, Iceland on the 24th-25th August 2023. The primary focus on this workshop was to get an introduction to each partner region and agree the overall vision of the main project.\n\nIt was valuable to meet up physically at the two days in Iceland, it got the project teams closer together and also understanding better where we come from. This is absolutely a recommendation to share in the NPA project network.\n\nThe preparatory project did succeed in developing and submitting a main project proposal, which the partnership take great pride in. The partnership between the preparatory project and the main project was reduced due to lack of ERDF FO equivalent funding for the Faroese partner. All potential additional partners for a main project, suggested by NPA Secretariat and their RCPs, have been contacted and they were all interested in attending the main project but for various reasons this was not a possibility. However, a couple of them have decided to sign up as associated partners and they will follow a possible main project implementation carefully. One suggested partner, SANKs in Norway, has already a formal collaboration agreement with Region Västerbotten and they will be involved in possible main project activities. More on the partner search is explained in deliverable: D 1.5.1 - Project idea development.","Tórshavn, Akureyri, Castleroy, Storuman","FO, IS, IE, SE",{"$nulls":5},4]
["NPA0200078","(BGN) Bauhaus Goes North -Bauhaus Housing Principles for the Norther Periphery and Arctic Region","Building, and in particular housing, still constitutes one of the major sources of energy use and CO2 emissions in the NPA region and Europe - estimated to approximately 40% of all energy use and 60% of all energy emissions. The problem is not simply one of energy efficiency of the buildings themselves, but includes the various challenge of proving energy for these buildings independent on fossil-fuels. There is also the challenge of embedded energy and CO2 in the materials and equipment that is used in counterintuitive ways - which involves energy and materials used during construction and the logistics of transporting materials and building components to difficult and remote locations (such as Islands). Looking to examine this in the design/construction process and eventual use of these building, one must question how sustainable are transport arrangements while also asking how waste is managed and how reuse and recycling is maximized? The Bauhaus model promoted by the EU requires we investigate compare and optimize our approach to these aspects to find the best and most viable solutions to reduce energy use and CO2 emissions in design, construction, and operation. For this project, we intended to produce a series of new models based on best practice from each of the three regions of the NPA: North Atlantic Islands, Scandinavia and Nordic, and Ireland. The Preparatory Project will identify possible pilot projects that will demonstrate these approaches in the different regions. This will be done in collaboration with existing local authorities, universities, and social housing bodies in each region. The aim would be to develop a Full Project of 3-years duration following the initial Preparatory Project, and will elaborate and demonstrate the different best practice Models identified or developed during the Preparatory Project. The initial Partnership will be expanded for the full Project to take in housing bodies and other agencies.","2023-01-01","2023-12-31","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.1. Promoting energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","038 Energy efficiency and demonstration projects in SMEs and supporting measures","N",99740,"ERDF",64831,65,"The BGN Project has successfully developed and implemented all agreed tasks,  As Coordinator of WP1 and WP2, 2 UCC produced D1.1 which details the overall potential of the project through a series of case studies which employed both social and material best practices around building, and  D1.2 which sets out the key principles emerging from several sources for best practices for the New European Bauhaus Project going forward.. Both documents are attached. A Consortium of 8 partners  from 6 countries was formed and  budgets were agreed and a Full Proejct Application submitted.\n\nOUAS led on WP3, which set the norm,s for demonstrator projects which oversaw the development of demonstration proposals by 8 Partners and Associates. CCAE led the WP4 on Consortium development   This involved contacting NCPs and networks in of all region not already involved, seeking further Partners. This also demonstrates the  considerable understanding,interest and demand thee for NEB Projects in the NPA Region.. \nInitial and new Partners participated in monthly Teams meetings set up by CCAE in order to progress the definition and drafting of the application. CCAE and OUAS input ad contributions were vital in setting the basic principles of the he project, ensuring a collaborative approach and aligning with the project's sustainability and innovation goals from the beginning. \n\nThe Preparatory phase involved extensive planning, collaboration, and the establishment of foundation strategies aimed at integrating sustainable architecture and energy efficiency into the regional development. Through workshops, stakeholder engagement, and the development of demonstrator projects, all Partners contributed to setting the direction for sustainable and inclusive architectural practices in the Arctic region. Their work has been instrumental in aligning project objectives with the broader goals of the New European Bauhaus initiative, focusing on sustainability, exclusivity, and aesthetics. \n\nMuch of the work during the period involved the identification of additional Partners, and the aligning  of new Partners proposals with the project's sustainability and innovation goals. For the Full Proejct a further 6 new full Partners were identified, in Ireland, Sweden and Norway, as well as a number of Associate Partners, including one in Denmark. Sadly, Lansverk Farces was unable to participate as a Full Member due to a depletion of the Faroes regional budget. However, they are still involved as Associate Partners in the full Project. \n\nCCAE worked closely with the newly established NEB Secretariat in Brussels and attended a number of zoom meeting of Friends of NEB. There CCAE explained and promoted the BGN initiative at these meetings and made contact with the existing Nordic NEB group, (which is not focused on design and building, but other aspects of NEB in the Region. \n\nOUAS participated in the \"Building Arctic Europe\" conference, successfully establishing numerous new contacts for future collaborations. This engagement is expected to enhance OUAS's network, opening avenues for partnerships, projects, and exchange of knowledge within the construction industry in the Arctic region. At the \"Building Arctic Europe\" conference, Oulu  OUAS not only engaged in discussions surrounding sustainable construction and innovation in the Arctic region but also expanded its professional network significantly. This participation provided  Partners with valuable contacts across sectors, including businesses, academia, and governmental bodies, paving the way for enhanced collaborative opportunities, research projects, and knowledge exchange initiatives focused on sustainable development and technological advancements in Arctic construction.\n\nIn term of demonstration, the Full Project proposes one Bauhaus Goes North joint Roll out Strategy for the NEB in the NPA Region and 4 jointly developed solution based on collaborative Pilot Projects, for University Campus building renovation (at UCC with participation of Lansverk, Faroes) , for City District Planning, (in Bodu, Norway with participation of Bloxhub in  Copenhagen)  for Sustainable development on Islands  (in Umea with input from Cork County Coucil)  and for renovation and repurposing of historic buildings (in Finland, with input from the Center for Excellence in Climate Action and Sustainability (managed by Green Skibbereen) in in West Cork)\n \nThroughout the preparatory phase of the Bauhaus Goes North project, OUAS maintained active communication with the lead partner, playing a pivotal role in the development of the main application. Representatives from OUAS, were instrumental in ensuring the project's vision and objectives were cohesively aligned with sustainability and innovation goals. Their collaborative efforts underscored the commitment to fostering a dynamic and integrated approach towards addressing the challenges and opportunities within the Arctic region's architectural landscape.\n","OULU, Cork","FI, IE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0700187","Arctic and North Atlantic Mass Rescue Operation Guidelines","Mass Rescue Operations (MRO) are large, complex and rare incidents, where one nations search and rescue (SAR) capacity is at risks of being overwhelmed. These types of disasters could have large consequences for the NPA region. Success often depends on well coordinated actions and resources from various organizations and stakeholders; regional, national and transnational. The project will develop a handbook for MRO, together with relevant SAR authorities that have a Search and Rescue Region (SRR) responsibility within the NPA area. The handbook seeks to create harmonized guidelines and standardised operations, especially when it comes to receiving and rendering international assistance. The MRO handbook aims to assist SAR authorities in identifying resource needs, knowledge of rescue resources available, and request and reply procedures. The idea is to promote common terminology, generate consistency, raise awareness, and identify stakeholders for a more efficient response.","2024-09-01","2026-02-28","(VI-B_NPaA_ISO1) Strengthening the organisational capacity among NPA communities to make use of cooperation opportunities","ISO6.4. Enhance institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement macro-regional strategies and sea-basin strategies, as well as other territorial strategies (all strands)","PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governance","173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional context","N",200000,"ERDF",38521.92,65,"Publication of guidelines\nTo test and validate the MRO guidelines and procedures. \nTo investigate through academic and non-academic literature conditions that can shape mass rescue operations and determine beneficial and detrimental factors. Find, analyze and classify existing MRO procedures by level of action (tactical, operative, and strategic) and investigate their differences.\nTo disseminate the work done by project partners to reach a larger audience.\n","Cork, Reykjavik, Bodø","IE, IS, NO",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0300090","COmmunity based virtual POWER plant","The aim is to develop a community-based Virtual Power Plant (cVPP) and a business model to support it in Finland, Iceland, Ireland and Faroe Islands. \n \nThe project addresses the lack of affordable, reliable, and efficient energy supply due to peripherality, low population density, cold climate, accessibility issues and over-reliance on fossil fuel. There is a significant renewable resource potential in partner areas and new possibilities in future dynamic energy markets.\n\nInformation technologies will link small energy systems and operate them in coordination like a utility-scale power station to balance electricity demand and production. This will change community roles in the energy system, decrease local consumption of fossil-based energy, energy independence, local energy trade and reduce electricity bills.\n\nThis creates new community-driven opportunities to digitalise, decarbonise and decentralise local energy systems.","2023-06-01","2026-05-31","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.1. Promoting energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","053 Smart Energy Systems (including smart grids and ICT systems) and related storage","N",1498935.4,"Other, ERDF",700180,65,"During the first reporting period, we launched the project, set up all the management and communication structures, and supported activities to ensure successful implementation and monitoring of the plane project actions.\n\nThe partnership has also worked together on the capacity-building phase of WP1 within the first period. This work focused on investigating and defining tools and technologies, identifying local DERs, and organising a demo of a cVPP design during a working group meeting. The work completed by the consortium during this first period sets the foundations to achieve the deliverables in the next periods and prepare for the pilot actions in year 2. \n\nIn the second reporting period the COPOWER partnership has worked together on deliverables D1.4.1 ‘report scale of local energy generation, demand response and DER’, D1.4.2 ‘map community owned DERs’, D1.5.1 ‘report on technology, tools, data, and security’, D.1.5.2 ‘assessment of technology solutions to confirm viability for the cVPP model’ and D1.8.1 ‘cVPP model’. The work carried out to date has equipped the partners with the knowledge and vision for implementing their pilots in the coming period. \n\nThe partnership attended monthly online project management meetings which were coordinated by ERNACT, they were held on the last Friday of each month. This meeting was utilised for the LP to address project management tasks as well as provide a communications update. For this reporting period, PP2 Centria (WP1 coordinator) organised regular working group meetings for the pilot partners. These meetings contributed to the successful delivery of the activities due in this period. \n\nRegarding physical events, the COPOWER partnership attended the 2nd partner meeting and thematic seminar 12th & 13th December 2023 in Kokkola, Finland, hosted by Centria University of Applied Sciences (PP2). At this event, partners participated in a thematic seminar workshop which focused on raising awareness among young people and investigating how they can lead the energy revolution. This seminar was videoed and promoted via COPOWER socials to enable promotion and engagement with a wider audience. The COPOWER partners participated in this video and recorded interviews with an update of the projects progress. \n\nCommunication activities for reporting period 2 were successfully achieved. The COPOWER project website was launched, this has been disseminated with our stakeholders and target groups. The project newsletter was submitted and disseminated on the 16th of January 2024; the 2nd project press release was achieved on the 7th of January 2024; 2 media appearances with local radio station in co. Donegal, Ireland on the 8th of January 2024. \n\nThe COPOWER partnership also completed the Horizontal Principals step 1 form & together agreed on HPs for step 2 'follow your HP best practices' which will be implemented throughout the lifetime of the COPOWER project. \nIn reporting period 3, the COPOWER project has successfully completed the following deliverables (see below). This period marked the beginning on WP2, with pilot partners focusing on and working towards their pilot plans. \n\n2.1.1  ‘Report from 3rd thematic seminar’\n2.1.2  ‘Video of the 3rd thematic seminar’\n2.2.1  ‘2nd Enewsletter’\n2.3.1  ‘Joint transnational methodology’\n\nThe work carried out to date has equipped the partners for period 4 where pilot action plans will be developed in each partner region. In preparation for this, LP1 has assisted partners with their queries around budgets, cost categories, and advised to follow national procurement rules, as well as staying aligned with their controller. Pilot partners have been preparing their tenders for VPP solutions. \n\nRegarding virtual events, the partnership attended monthly online project management meetings which were coordinated by LP1, they were held on the last Friday of each month. This meeting was utilised for the LP to address project management tasks as well as provide a communications update. For PR.3, PP3 University of Oulu (WP2 coordinator) organised regular working group meetings for the pilot partners. These meetings contributed to the successful delivery of the deliverables due in this period, as well as focusing in-depth on the partners pilot plans.  \n\nIn regards to physical events, the COPOWER partnership attended the 3rd partner meeting and thematic seminar, 11th and 12th June 2024, hosted by PP4 University of Iceland. All partners participated in the thematic seminar workshop which disseminated the community-based virtual power plant concept to the key project beneficiaries and end-users. The seminar began with presentations by subject matter experts, followed by detailed insights from master students at the University of Iceland and a session led by the host, Rúnar Unnþórsson. This seminar was videoed and promoted via COPOWER socials to enable promotion and engagement with a wider audience. The COPOWER partners participated in this video and recorded interviews with an update of the projects progress.  \n\nRegarding communication activities in period 3, the dissemination of the project has continued through X and LinkedIn channels and the COPOWER website. ERNACT, along with the input of the whole partnership, has published 6 news items and 1 event on the project website. These updates highlighted various activities and events that partners participated in, helping to raise awareness about the project. Highlights included information on what a cVPP is, details of the partner meeting and awareness-raising seminar held in Reykjavik (IS) in June 2024, an initiative to build a hydrogen pipeline in Finland, and an announcement about the next partner meeting and seminar in Oulu (FI). In addition, the second newsletter was sent on the 2nd of September to inform stakeholders about the projects progress. A social media campaign was also carried out to disseminate conclusions on energy generation and demand differences in Northern Europe (reports from the previous period), supported by infographics. Another communication activity during this period was the creation of a second animation explaining the concept of a cVPP.  ","Nólsoy, Lifford, Reykjavik, Oulu, Kokkola, Letterkenny","FO, IE, IS, FI",{"$nulls":5},6]
["NPA0800224","Regenerative Economic Transfers for Universal Resilience in the North","The RETURN project addresses the shared challenges of the NPA regions, where tourism revenue is often seen disconnected from the local community and environmental needs. The project’s objective is to identify successful tourism revenue transfer models that support the local community and the environment. By presenting different models of tourism taxation and voluntary payments to decision-makers around the NPA region, the project will provide concrete alternatives for how the local communities can better benefit from tourism. \n\nRETURN will produce policy recommendations, legal frameworks, and capacity-building tools, empowering communities and policymakers. A transnational approach is essential to sharing knowledge across regions facing similar challenges. RETURN’s novel focus on revenue transfer as a driver of both tourism sustainability and community resilience sets it apart from conventional models, offering an original solution to the region's common challenges.","2025-04-01","2028-03-31","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","061 Risk prevention and management of non-climate related natural risks (for example earthquakes) and risks linked to human activities (for example technological accidents), including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches","N",1786781.76,"Other, ERDF",796371.47,65,"WP1 aims to identify, evaluate, and document existing tourism revenue transfer models, including taxes, levies, entrance fees, and voluntary payments, focusing on their contributions to regenerative tourism and climate resilience in Northern and Arctic regions. The goal is to develop a comprehensive understanding of these models and how they can be adapted to support local communities, nature conservation, and climate adaptation in the NPA regions. This includes producing a detailed analysis and best practices guide to inform and assist stakeholders in implementing effective revenue transfer tools.\n\nThe objective is to create a comprehensive understanding of how different legal contexts impact model adoption, promoting successful integration and operationalization of these models in diverse regional settings. Analyze and map the legal, regulatory, and policy frameworks governing tourism revenue transfer models in different NPA regions. By the end of the project, we aim to produce a comprehensive report that demonstrates how these frameworks align with national, regional, and local legal conditions. The measurable outcome will be the identification of necessary adjustments to ensure that proposed models are effectively implementable within each specific legal context, thus facilitating their adoption and use. \nTo build capacity among key stakeholders to utilize different models of economic transfers for regenerative tourism to build community resilience to climate change and ecosystem restoration, enhance ecosystem-based approaches to disaster risk reduction, and integrate local knowledge and scientific insight into tourism management. The goal is to empower communities and decision-makers to use regenerative tourism as a mechanism for climate resilience, disaster risk prevention, ecosystem restoration, and conservation, leveraging tourism revenue transfers to fund sustainable infrastructure and restoration initiatives while raising awareness among visitors and the local communities. ","Nuussuaq, Östersund, Tórshavn, Akureyri, Westport, Co. Mayo, Cork, Rovaniemi","GL, SE, FO, IS, IE, FI",{"$nulls":5},8]
["NPA0800227","Valorization of Industrial Waste Streams for Battery Grade Silicon.","Battery value chains have recently emerged as a vital economic activity in Northern countries. The project aims to position the NPA as a leader in sustainable battery technologies, driving both economic growth and environmental sustainability in the region. The BATTSi project mobilizes transnational research groups, industry experts, and service providers to enhance innovation capacity for the valorization of locally available sustainable materials within battery material value chain. \nThe project pilots technologies for conversion of silicon-rich side and waste streams, such as grain husks and geo-brine, into battery-grade silicon. A comprehensive technology transfer and commercialization roadmap will be developed, which will detail the specifications for these technologies, along with evaluations of scalability, techno-economic implications, environmental impacts, and key stakeholders. This roadmap will facilitate technology adoption among battery material manufacturers in the NPA.","2025-03-01","2028-02-29","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","029 Research and innovation processes, technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and universities, focusing on the low carbon economy, resilience and adaptation to climate change","N",1530228.41,"ERDF",994648.46,65,"The specific objective of the WP1 is to establish and validate a collaborative framework that integrates a set of methods and relevant infrastructure for characterizing battery-grade materials derived from industrial side streams and waste. \n\nThis framework will be piloted through collaboration in mapping and analyzing the suitability of silicon-rich streams, such as grain husk and brewers' spent grain from the food and beverage industry, as well as geo-brine from geo-energy production, for use as a feedstock for anode-grade silicon material in battery manufacturing. The mapping results will be used for quantification of resource restoration and the resulting conservation of primary silicon mineral reserves.\n\nThe service database for battery material characterization, including service providers and experts will be established and made accessible through the websites of each participating organization. \n\nThe work package focuses on testing and piloting new technologies and processes to advance the use of silicon-rich side streams and waste as feedstock for anode-grade materials. It explores innovative solutions for cascade recovery of silicon compounds from biomass, pretreatment of geo-brine, reduction of silica to elemental silicon, purification to the required quality (A1.2), and the production of silicon-containing half-cells for battery performance testing (A1.3).\n \nThe goal is to validate the technical, economic, and environmental feasibility of these technologies, addressing challenges related to energy efficiency, safe and cost-effective chemicals, and optimal silicon yield. This pilot involves collaboration between R&D teams and the battery materials industry, with insights guiding further development, commercialization potential, and advancing sustainable battery technologies on a broader context. \nThe goal of WP3 is to facilitate the seamless transfer of technologies, foster collaboration within the battery material value chain, and ensure innovations reach and benefit relevant sectors and stakeholders. WP3 supports the communication efforts of WP1 and WP2, while also ensuring the long-term durability of project outcomes.\n\nA key deliverable of WP3 is the joint development of a Technology Transfer and Commercialization Roadmap, which provides a structured guide for actions related to the uptake of new technologies. WP3 will also organize six technology transfer workshops with industries, prepare a policy brief for regional and local development authorities, and implement broader communication measures aimed at reaching a wider audience. Regular feedback mechanisms will ensure the roadmap's effectiveness, strengthening the connections between R&D teams and industry for a more successful technology transfer.","Oulu, Luleå, Limerick, Reykjavik, Kuopio, KOKKOLA","FI, SE, IE, IS",{"$nulls":5},6]
["NPA0800242","Advanced Makerspaces for PiLot production by micro-Enterprises","Breakthroughs happen when something suddenly possible meets that which is desperately necessary. \n\nWe propose that by enabling innovators we can overcome the common challenges in the NPA of being peripheral, of witnessing youth depopulation, and of being threatened by carbon neutrality and digitalization. \n\nWe will improve the success of early-stage micro-enterprises by empowering them to create functional prototypes using advanced makerspace technologies that are suddenly possible.\n\nWe will listen to the needs of innovators. We will signpost innovators to scalable makerspace technologies. We will upskill NPA communities to overcome design and technical obstacles. We will journey with selected innovators through process challenges to realize three demonstrators -positively impacting social inclusion.\n\nTransnationally, we'll connect centers of excellence in materials, printed electronics, robotics, Fablabs, and photonics with innovators in homes and at hot desks to enhance Wellbeing.","2025-05-01","2028-04-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","028 Technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and higher education sector","N",1465159.97,"ERDF",952353.97,65,"Three objectives are proposed for this work package: \n\na.\tTo understand where to strategically position Advanced Makerspaces for use by micro-enterprises.  This will entail the completion of a survey by stakeholders.18+ micro-enterprises will confirm survey findings. The results will re-invigorate makerspaces for advancement. \n\nb.\tTo establish a technical value chain documenting Advanced Makerspace tools and materials. This will entail a detailed review of tools within the partnership. The contribution of each process towards scaling will be assessed. Over 40+ processes / tools will be documented. This will provide an on-line technical handbook for innovators. \n\nc.\tTo identify how Advanced Makerspace tools can be configured towards scale -as a network of autonomous work cells. This will involve simulation of an enterprise. Two case studies will be simulated thoroughly and reported to the community. \n\nThree objectives are proposed in this work package: \n\na. To address the barriers associated with the strategic use of Advanced Makerspace tools by micro-enterprises. The survey in Activity 1.1 will identify 5-6 barriers. The barriers will likely span design, technical, IP, Quality , Safety and scaling. 20+ recorded briefings will present potential solutions. \n\nb. To promote /develop/ re-invigorate the use of an Advanced Makerspace forum. \nMany technical challenges are solved just in time and on a need to know basis. It is proposed to review  on line support tools to assist innovators gain insights efficiently. This objective is to offer the NPA community with solutions. 30+ active enquiries by the end of the project with 18+ assistances targeted. \n\nc. To demonstrate solutions to four key process challenges based on implementing transnational case studies. \nIt is proposed to identify four signature process challenges inspired by feedback from micro-enterprises.\n\nThree objectives are proposed. \n\na. To present a best practice guide concerning the operational effectiveness for using Advanced Makerspaces to assist the innovation process. The guide will be a work flow diagram with accessible check lists to ensure the best value can be gained using Advanced Makerspace tools.\n\nb. To demonstrate the implementation of three case studies taking a concept from ideation to prototype.  The project will seek  case studies with strong motivation from a social justice/ inclusion / diversity perspectives in each of the three member countries. \n\nc.  To extract value from the project in terms of future regional development, future research programmes, technical infrastructure, further education, sustainability, social inclusion and innovation.","Sligo, OULU, Reykjavik, Kokkola, Galway","IE, FI, IS",{"$nulls":5},5]
["NPA0800244","Northern and Arctic Communities Emergency Management and Preparedness","Emergency management is a common challenge to all partner countries. NACEMAP project will assist NPA communities develop enhanced resilience against future disasters, through self- assessment, and developing plans to deal with emergency incidents. The project will identify best practices in community emergency preparedness at the local, regional, national, and transnational levels, during both incident response and post-incident recovery phases. NACEMAP will take an inclusive, consultative approach using roundtable workshops with communities, municipalities, first responders, and other key stakeholders. Workshop outputs will include mapping and analysing different levels of preparedness, identifying gaps and needs, and disseminating best practices in community emergency planning among partners and target groups. NACEMAP will produce and pilot a Toolkit with 3 parts - Preparedness Self-Assessment Audit; Response Preparedness Plan; and Post- Incident Recovery – as an enduring resource.","2025-03-01","2028-02-29","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","060 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: others, e.g. storms and drought (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches)","N",1499966.2,"ERDF",974978.03,65,"The main objectives of WP1 are: (Obj1.1) to establish a knowledge base regarding prevailing regulations, agreements and practices, providing crucial insights to guide subsequent project activities; and (Obj1.2) to prepare a first version of the toolkit and action plans. For Obj1.1 - the team will conduct a comprehensive study  to analyze how authorities and communities’ responsibilities, capabilities and jurisdiction are delineated in partner countries. The focus is on studying existing legislation, policies & agreements related to rescue operations and preparedness. This WP focuses on the pertinent legislation within the NPAP area, scrutinizing applicable cooperation agreements, and conducting a comparative assessment.  For Obj1.2, the team will plan & develop the first version of the toolkit and action plans to be piloted in WP 2. WP1 will involve multiple Stakeholders to address all WP1 objectives.\nThe objective of this work package is to plan, develop, conduct and evaluate 4 pilot exercises, to test the first version of Toolkits and Action Plans created in WP 1, for different emergency scenarios. This approach allows the Toolkit & Action Plan templates to be developed in an iterative way; but also enables the project to address multiple different types of emergency as it tests and validates the developing Toolkit. An Evaluation Plan will be created and the pilots will be evaluated using it, to collect and utilize all lessons learned when finalizing toolkits and action plans in WP 3. WP2 will improve the knowledge and understanding of the involved stakeholders, and will strengthen the operation of the NACEMAP networks. Mental health aspects, and support to individuals and to businesses, will be addressed.\nThe main focus of WP3 is to improve the Toolkit and Action Plans for community preparedness, response, and recovery, based on the experiences and findings in evaluation reports. Developing the final Toolkit and Action Plan is an iterative process with four different emergency incident scenarios (Wildfire, Oil Spill Response, Landslide/avalanche, and Mass Rescue Operation) being tested during the pilot exercises outlined in WP2. The final version of the Toolkit and Action Plan, complete with Guidance Notes for users, will be validated by stakeholders at the NACEMAP Final Event, and published via the project website. The Toolkit & Action Plan will be promoted for uptake by communities and relevant organisations, to become an embedded part of their emergency preparedness and response planning.","Húsavík , Helsinki, Akyreyri, Cork, Vantaa","IS, FI, IE",{"$nulls":5},6]
["NPA0800216","Nordic Bridge","Nordic Bridge project addresses challenges in the NPA region, such as brain drain, limited collaboration between academia and society, and under utilized research capacities. The project will create a challenge-driven digital portal for collaborative projects to drive sustainability and innovation. Public, private, and community sectors will post problems, challenges, case studies, and goals in the portal. These will be shared with students and researchers, who can contribute based on their expertise, leading to collaborative projects, such as thesis. Joint thesis collaboration agreements between partner universities will strengthen student and researchers of partners to contribute to challenges of each other regions. The main result of this project is a cross-border challenge-driven collaboration portal, benefiting public, private, community sectors, and universities. A transnational approach and the Quadruple Helix Design Model will ensure broad collaboration and long-term impact.","2025-04-01","2028-03-31","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.2. Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","016 Government ICT solutions, e-services, applications","N",1456423,"ERDF",626801.2,61.23,"WP1 ensures the effective promotion, engagement, knowledge transfer, and long-term sustainability of the Nordic Bridge project. It facilitates transnational collaboration among academic institutions, industry, and societal actors while strengthening the Nordic Bridge as an opportunity for knowledge exchange. \n\nWP1 will:\n- ensure transparent, structured, and active communication among project partners and stakeholders by providing regular updates and facilitating collaboration (digital and physical).\n- develop and implement a strategic sustainability plan to maintain the Nordic Bridge portal beyond the project’s lifespan.\n- facilitate cross-institutional collaborative agreements that enable University students to engage in challenge-driven research projects, strengthening academic and societal partnerships.\n- promote transnational knowledge exchange including physical meetings in each partner country, to review and enhance academic-society collaboration models and best practices.\nThis WP focuses on the design of the Nordic Bridge portal, ensuring it meets the needs of all stakeholders. The portal will be designed following the Quadruple Helix model, integrating the perspectives of academia, public, private, and community sectors. The goal is to establish a framework that addresses the distinct demands of each sector while facilitating seamless collaboration between them. The following are the specific objectives:\ni. The portal will be designed to incorporate the perspectives of universities, public, private, community sector, ensuring comprehensive collaboration. The design will focus on creating user-friendly interfaces and sector-specific functionalities for different stakeholders.\nii. To cater specific needs of each community, the portal will be designed with sector-based divisions within each stakeholder group. This ensures that each user can access features tailored to their unique requirements, making the portal more efficient and impactful.\n\nThis WP focuses on building the prototype and conducting thorough testing across all stakeholder groups. Using the design framework developed in WP2, the goal is to bring the portal to life by creating a functional prototype that will be tested by stakeholders groups. Feedback gathered during this phase will be used to refine and improve the portal’s functionality, ensuring that it meets sector-specific needs and supports seamless collaboration.\nSpecific Objectives:\ni. Develop a Functional Portal Prototype: Build the first version of the portal based on the design framework established in WP2. This prototype will include sector-specific functionalities from four group of stakeholders, ensuring that each group’s needs are met.\nii. Conduct Thorough Testing with Stakeholders: Engage stakeholders in testing the portal prototype to evaluate its functionality, user experience, and sector-based features. Gather feedback to identify areas for improvement and adjust the portal accordingly.","Letterkenny Co Donegal , Sími, Sligo, Bodø , Holar, Rovaniemi, Bodø","IE, IS, NO, FI",{"$nulls":5},7]
["NPA0600157","Prepare. To. Gamify! Ecosystem Building","Common Challenges and Opportunities\n\nRural areas face unique challenges including isolation and limited social opportunities, an aging population, and difficulties in attracting and retaining young residents due to limited job prospects and amenities. As such technology that connects people and places is increasingly important and can address and exploit significant opportunities, such as the affordability of rural housing and amenities, unused facilities that can be repurposed to build game communities, and market opportunities for game development. This enables all stakeholders to reap the benefits of digitalization.\n\nGamified solutions are vital because they leverage game elements like competition and rewards to boost motivation, learning, and engagement. Whether in education, employee training, or promoting healthy habits, gamification fosters active participation, making tasks more enjoyable and challenging.\n\nThe games industry and gamification have become more prevalent, enabling stakeholder groups that previously had limited interaction with gamified solutions to start reaping the benefits. The utilization of gamified solutions in industries has increased, spurring innovations and operational improvements such as upskilling for construction sites using virtual reality. These industries align with the regional Smart Specialization Strategies (S3). A new business area of gamified sustainable, responsible, and resilient solutions has emerged where start-ups and SMEs lead.\n\nThis enables not only for gamified solutions developed in rural regions to be exported, but also for gamified solutions to solve rural area challenges. Thus, they can better attract and retain residents to live and work there, creating a thriving socio-economic landscape.\n\nAt the individual level, the games industry and gamification provides a way for people to interact and form communities, decreasing loneliness, social exclusion, and discrimination. Since only the internet is needed, accessibility barriers are low and provide equal opportunities to become involved.\n\n\nOverall Objective and Expected Change\n\nThe missing link is a games industry and gamification ecosystem that is vibrant and supportive. It is needed to reap the benefits for government, company, education, research, NGO, and citizen stakeholder groups. Prepare. To. Gamify! Ecosystem Building will validate the interest in and need for a main project to develop the ecosystem.\n\nAs engaged ecosystem actors, educational institutions will train more talented workforce and firms will create jobs and introduce innovations. Support from local to national public organizations (infrastructure, financial incentives and regulatory frameworks) and business support organizations further accelerates this progress.\n\n\nMain Outputs and Beneficiaries \n\nP.T.G! aims to evaluate how rural areas in the project countries have tried to create the games industry and gamification ecosystems. This feasibility study uses a SWOT tool as a base for the stakeholder interviews and co-creation workshops with end users. The results are jointly synthesized to identify good practices and key learnings. A Gap analysis identifies pain points within the process or actors in other ecosystem initiatives. The synthesized lists are key outcomes of the feasibility study indicating if a main project is viable and needed.\n\nDifferent forms of ecosystems and their operational models are benchmarked to find suitable options. P.T.G! pays special attention to ways to combine digital platforms and physical spaces like unused facilities. The deliverable is a possible ecosystem canvas model for the games industry and gamification ecosystem.\n\nP.T.G! benchmarks key stakeholders to determine their role and match capacities for further collaboration, such as the larger project which is being validated. The project ideation and stakeholder mapping uses a horizontal and multidisciplinary approach. Key sectors benefiting from the games industry and gamification are identified horizontally in line with each region’s Smart Specialization Strategies (S3) to increase each area’s competitive advantages.\n\nNovelty, Planned Approach, and Transnational Importance\n\nDesign thinking and ecosystem building are the foundation approaches for the new co-creative methods to develop game ecosystems. This approach goes beyond the existing practice by harnessing horizontal and multidisciplinary principles to engage new stakeholders like youth and aging groups.\n\nCollaboration between rural regions in Finland, Sweden, and Ireland can significantly bolster the games industry by merging diverse talent pools, sharing resources and expertise, and attracting investments. P.T.G! aims to facilitate market expansion and drive joint RDI initiatives.\n\nThis new co-creative and ecosystem-based approach founded on design thinking can make rural regions attractive for game development, ensuring the industry's and region's sustainable growth and inclusiveness.","2023-12-01","2024-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.2. Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","018 IT services and applications for digital skills and digital inclusion","N",99967.84,"ERDF",64979.08,65,"In the Prepare. To. Gamify! Ecosystem Building (P.T.G!) -preparatory project, we explored the needs and opportunities for addressing rural challenges through the game industry and gamified solutions. The project objectives were advanced under the leadership of the lead partner Savonia University of Applied Sciences (Finland), with bi-monthly meetings held with partners Region Västerbotten (Sweden), Mind Detonator (Sweden), and Ardán (Ireland).\n\nThe collaboration through remote meetings was very successful, fostering strong ties among the partners. We worked on the work package activities and prepared the main project both independently and during the previously mentioned meetings or separate sessions dedicated to working together. The work package activities were completed as promised, and we even achieved a bit more in the form of the main project proposal, Innovation Through Gamification Solutions (InnoGS), which was submitted to the 5th call of the Interreg NPA.\n\nThe outcomes of the activities highlighted the need to build place-based communities around digital solutions, to develop the regional and political aspects of rural areas to support the digital transformation, and to create an international collaboration network platform (Digital Innovation District, DID). The work package activities also included networking at events, surveys and interviews to reach out to different target groups, inquiring about their interest and needs for rural development through game industry and gamified solutions. The approach was considered highly interesting, and there was enthusiasm to become part of the initiative. No one found the idea impossible, but all agreed that a clear implementation plan would be necessary.\n\nThe preparation for the main project began in the middle of the preparatory phase, as the Interreg NPA's call for proposals opened in the summer 2024 and was closing in the fall. This was somewhat unexpected, as we originally planned to prepare the main project application more at the end of the preparatory project. However, we managed well, as we had already gathered sufficient information through the work package activities to shape the project application. We had also identified the types of experts and partners needed for the main project alongside the existing partners. New partners in the main project include Humak University of Applied Sciences (Finland), bringing expertise in youth engagement, and Government of Greenland and University of Iceland - Innovation hub for Education, addressing their regional challenges. From the previous partners, Mind Detonator’s representatives felt they could contribute more effectively to the main project through their organization Creative Crowd (Sweden), bringing expertise in building co-working spaces in rural areas and fostering vibrant communities around them.\n\nPartners from participating countries also brought in associated partners and stakeholders, including one from Norway. Additionally, a steering group will be formed to fill gaps in expertise, with Female Gaming Finland, representing women and gender minorities, as an example. We spent considerable time in meetings to network with new partners and stakeholders, and worked together to shape a common project, which was submitted on time.\n\nThe relationship between project partners was already strong through remote meetings, but the first in-person meeting in Cologne, Germany, during a main project planning workshop and the networking event, Gamescom, created deeper bonds between the partners. After the in-person meeting, remote meetings also felt more natural, and even emailing each other felt like messaging with friends. Unfortunately, the representative from Ardán had to cancel his trip to Germany due to illness, and the other partners missed the chance to meet him in person.\n\nThe preparatory project has ended, and the new, larger follow-up project, InnoGS, has received its approval decision. Both old and new partners are already actively preparing for the start of the follow-up main project. This highlights the strong interest in the project idea and the enthusiasm to implement it, demonstrating that we succeeded in preparing a robust and well-received project during this preparatory phase.\n","Galway, Jörn, Umeå, Kuopio","IE, SE, FI",{"$nulls":5},4]
["NPA0700189","Supply Chain Integration for Interoperability & Enhanced Resilience of SMEs in remote regions","The Arctic Edge project aims to strengthen supply chain operations in the NPA Region, addressing regional challenges (refer to C\n\n2.4). It will develop and implement a cloud-based, IoT, and MQTT technology-driven solution for rural manufacturing NPA SMEs, aiming to optimise supply chain processes. While existing technologies are available, their adoption, especially in SMEs' supply chains, remains limited.\nArctic Edge's objective is to enhance efficiency, resilience, and adaptability in SMEs' supply chain operations, fostering a mental shift towards digital adoption. Project deliverables include a flexible digital architecture for improved internal operations and external supply chain interactions, personalised IoT solutions, comprehensive video content and educational materials. The project seeks to revolutionise supply chain practices within the NPA region by introducing innovative technologies and promoting their widespread application, particularly among rural manufacturing SMEs.","2024-09-01","2027-08-31","(VI-B_NPaA_1) Strengthening the innovation capacity for resilient and attractive NPA communities","RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","028 Technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and higher education sector","N",1586515.14,"ERDF",966246.5,65,"Overall objective of this package is to ensure quality project management and platform prototyping/development at Digital Beacons sites.\nProject management:\n- ensure that project goals are achieved in line with partner agreement  related to time, scope & budget,\n- provide effective project management, streamlined coordination\n- establishment of a collaborative ecosystem that supports the successful execution of the project while considering sustainability aspects\nPlatform prototyping and development: \n- design advanced digital architecture for seamless data interconnectivity aiming at supply chain resilience, taking into consideration Digital Beacons context and use cases (n=2).\n- deploy an innovative digital architecture & demonstrate its effectiveness in Digital Beacons sites with a view to achieve their supply chain interoperability (n=2)\n- integrate deployed client-broker solution with existing MES/ERP systems & industrial interfaces to ensure smooth supply chain interconnectivity.\nMain objective of the WP2 is to deliver robust, demand-driven support, empowering SMEs from NPA regions to seamlessly integrate innovative digital architectures into their existing operational fabric. \nBy effectively deploying digital architecture within two SME partners, the solution's viability is validated paving the way for broader adoption and implementation across similar contexts and NPA regions. Selected  use cases will be further explored and piloted (n=26). The benefits of interconnectivity in the manufacturing sector for rural manufacturing companies  and  potential for implementation of European data space interconnectivity, AI /ML capabilities, and cybersecurity will be demonstrated to target audience. An advisory clinic  established to assist NPA SMEs in navigating the intricacies of  digital architecture, offer guidance to NPA SMEs for enhancing the supply chain resiliency.\nThe aim of the package is to maximise impact of the project results through communication and dissemination actions. The package is designed to ensure effective communication on project's ongoing activities, upcoming events, and achieved milestones to the target audiences across all cluster regions and beyond. Additionally, it seeks to disseminate project outcomes to the Arctic Edge target groups and relevant stakeholders. The toolkit will be designed to empower  rural manufacturing SMEs in implementation of innovative digital architecture.  The project's effectiveness will be assessed, drawing insights and lessons from the processes and approach employed within project methodologies. The outcome of the project will be demonstrated highlighting lessons learnt.  The roadmap for enhancement of  supply chain resilience and knowledge transfer developed and delivered. ","Sligo, Reykjavik, JOENSUU, Kokkola, Luleå, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal","IE, IS, FI, SE",{"$nulls":5},8]
["NPA0700171","Bauhaus Goes North","The Bauhaus Goes North (BGN) project aims to review the state of the art in respect to participatory, sustainable, and inclusive co-design for the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy in the NPA Region. Under the New European Bauhaus (NEB) it removes barriers to accelerate replication of best practice across the NPA Region. BGN will be delivered via a Living Lab initiative to co-create a Co-Design Playbook; a Replicability Index tool and Annual Best Practice Call to accelerate take-up of replicable solutions. Contributing to the NEB movement, it proposes and advances participatory, sustainable and inclusive co-design best practices. Four jointly-develped demonstrator projects - a district plan, a campus and a historic building, a sustainable island development - will illustrate and anchor diverse settings and contexts. The Partners and Associates are strategic agencies in 7 regions representing Local Authorities, Academic and Environmental Groups and Social NGO's.","2024-09-01","2027-08-31","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","075 Support to environmentally-friendly production processes and resource efficiency in SMEs","N",1632526.95,"Other, ERDF",754841.42,65,"UCC has progressed scoping of the development of NEB in the NPA region. Work focused on establishing a common format as a fit-for-purpose framework to underpin the BGN project across all work packages. This resulted in the development of an 'NEB Principles Framework for BGN - supporting the transition to circularity and resource efficiency.' This 'Principles Framework' will be critical to successfully realizing Output 1.1 BGN transnational partnership, facilitating co-design activities, the development of WP2 Best Practice Criteria and WP3 Demonstrators Action Plans and as a principle mechanism for enabling a living lab approach.\nPlanning has begun to set up local co-creation workshops in each region in period one - with high level approach agreed with project partners. These workshops will be delivered in P2 and collect key information on current stage of awareness and application of principles, and insights from stakeholders building on direct experience in each region. The Framework will serve as a key tool to support these discussions. This local research will support a region-by-region view and insights on awareness of NEB principles and tools with a specific focus on circularity. \nIn terms of WP2 is led by GBCI, this is tasked with all aspect of organizing the 3 Calls for Best Practices in NEB in the NPA Region. NEB Principles and Best Practices within the NPA Region, documented in the Preparatory Proejct, have acted as basis for this Work Package. The a Principles Framework for NEB in the Region, serve as a common framework for activities, including the contacts of the Awards Criteria for Best Practices. During this Period each Partner has had the opportunity to nominate an Expert to the Panel that will apply this criteria to judge Best Practices. GBCI has produced a Guidance documents for this Expert Panel and has met with and briefed the Panel on how the Awards competition will roll out. There will be one Call for Best Practices per year, with the first one being in October 2025. Each call will be disseminated widely and expected to produce a list of around 10 Best Practices each year, from which three winners will be sleeted, UCC will help promote the Call in Ireland and will circulate information to its contact lists.GBCI is responsible for disseminating Best Practice Award Call details and information in the NPA Region, together with Local Partners. UCC  will monitor and evaluate the Best Practice Awards process through Living Labs (in WP1) and also disseminate Call information in Ireland. UCC has also  nominated one Expert for the Panel, and participated in defining, Best Practices,  \nIn terms of WP3, four solutions are being proposed on the theme of sustainable and circular built and natural environment. Each solution is proposed to address specific local urban or rural challenges identified in the sleeted thematic areas. Each one of these solution will be placed within the 12 Key Principles of NEB for the NPA Region identified in WP1 (and previously in the Preparatory Project).","Cork, Reykjavík, Umeå, Bodø, Narvik, Oulu","IE, IS, SE, NO, FI",{"$nulls":5},7]
["NPA0200072","Adapted and Resilient OATS for northern periphery areas","lceland and the Northern parts of Scandinavia are scarcely populated and there are large distances between communities. Especially in the rural areas the economy is relying on few options that also include controversial industries such as mining industry. The development of new business opportunities is difficult due to remoteness and very limited number of research and development persons. Climate change will prolong the growing season in these regions and increase the potential of agriculture. Local farms could have an increasingly important role as employers and tax payers and the entire food chain can have significant employment increasing effects. Oat as an already important export crop and as a plant that thrives in cool climate would be logical choice to start increasing cereal production. Healthiness of oats and new oat products create demand for oat production and in the long run the conditions to cultivate good quality oats in the South may weaken. Thus we want to increase oat cultivation in Northern Scandinavia and in Iceland to create conditions for local growth in farming and cereal industry. However, the challenge is that extreme weathers, diseases and pests are also increasing and the different soils and longer day length also require adapted cultivars. Within the main project that will be planned in the proposed preliminary project we shall broaden the genetic basis of Nordic oat breeding and find genes that are required to introduce adapted oat material to the farmers within the northern periphery areas. The potential agricultural area is vast but the current market for cultivars is too small for a single plant breeding company to develop cultivars and the development requires a multidisciplinary approach. Therefore, all three plant breeding companies working in the area and the relevant agricultural universities are teaming up together for the first time ever to answer the oat challenges by using novel prebreeding materials and top edge technology.","2022-12-01","2023-05-31","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","058 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: floods and landslides (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches)","N",48607.04,"ERDF",18167.7,65,"\nArctic oats formed a consortium of Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Irish experts from agricultural and research sector and made a plan for increasing oat cultivation in Northern Scandinavia, Iceland and western parts of Ireland. We recognized that the main obstacle for oat cultivation in all of these areas was the lack of optimal cultivars that would produce good quality yield and would withstand the harsh conditions. We also detected that there is need the increase awareness on how oat should be cultivated and we made a survey for local farmers and oat producers in order to determine what traits they require from oat cultivars and what it would take for them to start oat production. Through several online and one physical meeting our consortium was able to form a solid project plan had three spearheads: 1) increasing the needed traits to breed better adapted cultivars for NPA areas, 2) testing suitable breeding and cultivar material in NPA areas and 3) introducing oat cultivation and oat networks for local SMEs. \n\nBy far there has been a sort of chicken and egg conundrum regarding the cereal production in Northern periphery areas such as Iceland, Northern parts of Scandinavia and Ireland. Since there has been no suitable cultivars, the farmers have not produced cereals and no cereal food industry has been developed and knowledge for cultivation is lost or has never even been accumulated. Furthermore, since there has been no market for cereals, there has been no market and no reason for the development of cultivars by plant breeding companies. Our preparatory project offers a solution for this and has now submitted a proposal named OatFrontiers for the 3rd NPA call. With the help of project funding the small plant breeders could  get the tools and support needed to start developing suitable cultivars, the local research partners could start testing cultivar candidates and spread information about oat cultivation and use for the local SMEs. This could create a positive cycle that could lead to a development of grain industry in these areas offering new jobs and resilience to the society through climate adaptation. \n","Borgarbyggð, Jyväskylä","IS, FI",{"$nulls":5},2]
["NPA0200065","Societal Growth in Renewable Energy and Storage Innovation","Countries across the NPA share climate change challenges and the need for citizens to understand and contribute to energy efficient practices while being situated in sparsely populated areas with high energy needs, cold climates, defective housing insulation, fossil fuel dependency and energy insecurity exasperated by the Ukraine war, causing distress to citizens reliant on oil or gas. This preparatory project aims to identify countries, regions and key desicisionmakers for cooperation, commit these, and jointly develop an NPA project with the objective to identify, develop and deploy solutions supporting adoption of renewable energy systems and sustainable energy use. Focus will be on key decision makers like Research Centres, Regional Authorities, SMEs etc providing a collaborative setting for developing solutions inspiring experiential and sustainable energy related learnings. Resistance to change will be explored and findings used to build pilots and exhibition models addressing these thus promoting behavioral change. The main outputs will be information from interviews, surveys and mapping across a wide range of organizations and end users utilizing their knowledge and expertise with renewable energy systems and sustainable energy practices. Regional authorities, sectional agencies, higher education, research & training centers, schools and citizens may benefit from the project results. The energy issue is complex which require transnational co-creation, partners with differing skills and experiences to achieve the main project goals. The partners have extensive contacts and substantial experience in EU projects. New/original in the project is the merging of resources and co-creation of public/private actors within the NPA area to overcome barriers and create new solutions promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy systems among end-users.","2022-12-01","2023-05-31","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.1. Promoting energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","046 Support to entities that provide services contributing to the low carbon economy and to resilience to climate change, including awareness-raising measures","N",49999.92,"ERDF",32499.94,65,"The point of departure for the preparatory project CHANGE is that countries across the NPA share climate change challenges and the need for citizens to understand and contribute to energy efficient practices while being situated in sparsely populated areas with high energy needs, cold climates, defective housing insulation, fossil fuel dependency and energy insecurity exasperated by the war, causing distress to citizens reliant on oil or gas. The project aimed to identify countries, regions and key decision-makers for cooperation, to jointly develop an NPA project with the objective to identify, develop and deploy solutions supporting the adoption of renewable energy systems and sustainable energy use.\nIn order to fulfil the aim, interviews, surveys, and informal talks with other actors was conducted, but reports from previous studies were also reviewed and we have been able to refine our ideas for the main project. All the three partner countries have now agreed on a way forward but keep an open mind as we hope to be able to also include a partner from Island and/or Greenland and want to give them an opportunity to contribute to the final application’s goals and descriptions. Not the least, the sharing of ideas and experiences within the project them has been very valuable in finding a proper way forward. This sharing has been a step-wise process ongoingly fuelled by new knowledge on what to focus on in order to promote sustainable energy- efficiency related changes.  \nWe have realized that families with children likely are a relevant target-group to focus on initially as parents wish their children a bright future and are likely to pay attention to the climate change as a threat to that outcome. By presenting the information in a playful, gamified manner involving the whole family, we hope to also create interest and commitment among the children, as children are known to have a potentially large impact on how their parents act and the choices that they make. If we can make also the children understand what would be beneficial for the nature, we would have two forces (parents and children) pulling in the same direction – and they could ultimately also have an impact on the actions of the wider family circle as well as on their friends.\n","Oulu, Letterkenny, Sundsvall","FI, IE, SE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["NPA0200056","Mapping and valuing blue carbon for utilization in marine spatial planning","Blue carbon, the carbon captured and stored in natural marine and coastal habitats, represents a critical ecosystem service that can mitigate against climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. Marine sediments represent a significant global carbon reserve and are key in helping to regulate climate. Yet while the importance of coastal and shallow blue carbon habitats (e.g. seagrass beds and saltmarshes) is recognised, with many such areas being afforded protection, it is estimated that only 2% of subtidal sediments that store carbon are protected against activities that could disturb the seafloor and result in the loss of blue carbon. BC4MSP aims to address this issue, taking a transnational approach across countries in the NPA, countries which are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Specifically BC4MSP aims to improve understanding of the extent of blue carbon across the North Atlantic and identify where blue carbon is most likely to be stored in deep sea areas. This will be achieved by taking a new approach in identifying biological and physical features likely to be indicators of blue carbon sinks in deep-sea habitats. BC4MSP then aims to develop innovative Marine Spatial Planning solutions that can incorporate new information about deep-sea blue carbon to best protect it, while considering the conflicting needs of marine stakeholders in this region. Using a stakeholder driven approach BC4MSP will improve understanding of how different marine stakeholders interact with blue carbon, create a wider understanding of the importance of blue carbon and balance the needs of multiple users of our marine spaces while protecting blue carbon. The outcomes of the project will help to best protect blue carbon in the deep North Atlantic, mitigate against climate change and support the sustainable use of seas in the NPA so that they continue to provide important economic, societal and cultural value.","2022-12-01","2023-11-30","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","060 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: others, e.g. storms and drought (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches)","N",37312.38,"ERDF",12099.75,65,"Blue carbon, the carbon captured and stored in natural marine and coastal habitats, represents a critical ecosystem service that can mitigate against climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. Marine sediments represent a significant global carbon reserve and are key in helping to regulate climate. Yet while the importance of coastal and shallow blue carbon habitats (e.g. seagrass beds and saltmarshes) is recognised, with many such areas being afforded protection, it is estimated that only 2% of subtidal sediments that store carbon are protected against activities that could disturb the seafloor and result in the loss of blue carbon. BC4MSP aimed to start addressing this issue, taking a transnational approach across five countries in the NPA (Ireland, Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Norway), which are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.\n\nSpecifically, BC4MSP aimed to improve understanding of the extent of blue carbon across the North Atlantic and identify where blue carbon is most likely to be stored in deep sea areas. To begin addressing this objective a stock take was made of current data sources collected and stored both in Ireland and Greenland that could be used to provide insight into where blue carbon is stored in our marine environments. This includes data on organic carbon content in sediments as well as carbon stored in benthic megafauna, but also data availability of substratum type within the different continental shelves and knowledge on their geomorphology. \n\nBC4MSP aimed to move forward and take new approaches in identifying biological and physical features likely to be indicators of blue carbon sinks in shelf-sea habitats, to fill knowledge gaps. The use of alternative indicators for identifying blue carbon was discussed extensively during a knowledge exchange workshop. Irish and Norwegian partners are currently working on projects exploring blue carbon sinks on the Irish shelf by creating a seabed blue carbon model, based on existing data on organic carbon content and sediment grain size. The BC4MSP workshop explored the possibility of finding carbon hotspots and determining if these are linked to biodiversity hotspots. Some countries within the NPA area have been found to have greater benthic flora and fauna datasets than sediment data so utilising both datasets to improve knowledge of carbon across our shelf and off-shelf seas.\n\nBC4MSP also aimed to develop innovative Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) solutions that can incorporate new information about deep-sea blue carbon and other vital marine features to best protect them, while considering the conflicting needs of marine stakeholders in this region. A particular need for an MSP tool was identified for Greenland, and the Faroe Islands, which are both in early stages of developing and adopting MSP approaches for their waters. The Greenland government has recognised the importance of a MSP tool and has made a formal offer to make funds available for an initial maintenance of a developed platform for up to 5 years after the project end. After which period it is hoped the usefulness of this platform will have been proven without doubt and the annual maintenance part of the government budget.\n\nBC4MSP recognised the importance of a stakeholder driven approach when moving forward to create a wider understanding of the importance of blue carbon and balance the needs of multiple users of our marine spaces while protecting blue carbon. Relevant stakeholders and different approaches required to effectively engage them were identified in this preliminary phase of the project. In particular, it was recognised that there is a need to improve understanding of Blue Carbon and its potential across the Northern Periphery Area. Currently the Irish partners are working on developing a standardised information and outreach program, involving focus-groups and individual interviews to better understand the perception of blue carbon across a wide range of stakeholders and how best to engage them. This approach and how it could be best tailored to the specific needs and requirements of the different countries was discussed during a knowledge exchange workshop. It was agreed that different information dissemination pathways need to be used for each of the four major stakeholders including the state agencies, policy makers, national research centres and the public with a particular emphasis on native languages and ensuring awareness of the economic differences between countries. \n  \nIt is envisioned that outputs from future work that builds on this preliminary project will help to best protect blue carbon in the deep North Atlantic, mitigate against climate change and support the sustainable use of seas in the NPA so that they continue to provide important economic, societal and cultural value.\n","Nuuk, Galway","GL, IE",{"$nulls":5},2]
["NPA0200077","Utilising the SEA to mitigate climate change and Strengthening Coastal Communities","This project seeks to address strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities, by promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy. \nThe expected outcomes of this prep project is to assess the feasibility of the potential for workplans and project ideas and recommendations for such and to conduct stakeholder mapping to identify project partners and their expertise areas. \nWe envisage that the potential benefit and outcomes of the main project, if undertaken, could measurably improve the resilience, survivability, and sustainability of coastal communities and reduce risks and vulnerabilities as they face increasingly impactful effects of climate change such as retraining local communities in skills relevant to climate change initiatives. The focus will also be on marine SMES to rethink business models, embed zero waste principles in their operations and get more value from their resources. \nThe project will evaluate methods to expand the sector, improving existing job opportunities and encourage diversification of existing marine users into the sector.\nThe project is taking an innovative approach where the community, environmental and enterprise sustainability is equally considered. The coupling of coastal community-based initiatives such as involving and informing on how best to utilise their marine economy, retraining and reskilling, coupled with the economic opportunities for marine SME’s to add value to their existing business by reducing waste, improving their business, generating further employment and adding economic benefit to the region whilst implementing more sustainable and circular practices leads to an impactful project. These ambitions have the potential to offer a major demonstration model on how regions can play a vital and fundamental role in addressing the biggest challenge of our times.","2022-12-01","2023-05-31","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","075 Support to environmentally-friendly production processes and resource efficiency in SMEs","N",0,null,0,0,"The aim of this preparatory project is to develop a high quality Main project applications."," Vadsø, Carna","NO, IE",{"$nulls":5},2]
["NPA0400111","CircUpscale","Digipolis in Kemi, Finland and Kunnskapsparken Helgeland (KPH) in Mo i Rana in Norway propose a NPA Preparatory project “CircUpscale” to gather a Project Consortium and to prepare for a full scale NPA project on promoting industrial circular economy in the NPA area. CircUpscale has a specific focus on finding and developing transnational methods, tools, and practices to upscale circular economy initiatives and pilots. CircUpscale preparatory project would result in a high quality Main project in order to fully utilize the potential of the target groups of the project such as the SMEs, local/regional/national public authorities, R&D actors, and business support organisations. CircUpscale would have a positive impact on transforming production processes in the NPA region towards more circular solutions. \nThe CircUpscale approach invites NPA actors of circular economy to benchmark and jointly develop industrial circular economy and to cross-fertilize innovative ideas across the NPA area. CircUpscale is a new and original attempt to provide a knowledge exchange platform on industrial circular economy in an NPA context - with focus on upscaling the initiatives. The project would take into account many of the territorial challenges of the NPA area, such as lack of critical mass of potential customers, long distances, and need to find solutions that specifically could be implemented in the sensitive nature environments in the north.\nIndustrial circular economy development includes internationally several non-metropolitan success stories e.g. in Kalundborg Symbiosis in Denmark and Iceland Ocean Cluster in Reykjavik. Digipolis and KPH have previous experience on regional, national, and international cooperation and building up networks in the field of industrial circular economy which provides a solid starting point for acting as a core group for the NPA preparatory phase.","2023-06-01","2024-05-31","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","072 Use of recycled materials as raw materials compliant with the efficiency criteria","N",100000,"ERDF",39000,65,"Highlights of Main Achievements\n\nThe CircUpscale preparatory project successfully brought together a diverse and comprehensive consortium, leveraging both new and existing networks recommended by the secretariat and consortium members. This consortium has shown significant commitment to the project, ensuring continued collaboration beyond the preparatory phase. A key highlight is the strong possibility of submitting a full-scale project application for the NPA's fifth call in autumn 2024, as the consortium is well-prepared and aligned with the project's objectives.\n\n\nWork Carried Out and Objectives Reached\n\nThe CircUpscale project effectively addressed several common challenges in the NPA area, focusing on upscaling circular economy initiatives. Key activities included:\n\n1. Consortium Building and Networking: Through regular online meetings and physical workshops, the project solidified a robust network of partners across the NPA area, ensuring a transnational approach to circular economy solutions.\n\n2. Stakeholder Engagement: Extensive stakeholder mapping and feasibility studies were conducted to identify and engage relevant partners, ensuring their alignment with the project's goals.\n\n3. Project Preparation: Detailed work on the project proposal, including the development of a comprehensive project plan, budget framework, and pilot evaluations, was carried out collaboratively.\n\n4. Feasibility Studies and Pilot Projects: The project identified potential pilot projects and evaluated their feasibility, setting the groundwork for transnational cooperation in upscaling these initiatives.\n\n\nAdded-Value of the Cooperation\n\nThe transnational cooperation was crucial for the project's success, providing a platform for knowledge exchange and innovation across the NPA area. This approach allowed for:\n\n1. Benchmarking and Joint Development: Sharing best practices and developing joint methodologies for circular economy initiatives.\n2. Enhanced Networking: Facilitating connections between diverse stakeholders, including SMEs, large enterprises, public authorities, and research institutions.\n3. Capacity Building: Strengthening the skills and knowledge base of all partners involved, promoting sustainable practices tailored to the unique challenges of the NPA region.\n\n\nMain Achievements\n\n- Established a Strong Consortium: The project successfully assembled a committed group of partners, ensuring the continuation of efforts beyond the preparatory phase.\n- Developed Comprehensive Project Plans: Detailed plans for pilot projects and the overall main project were developed, providing a clear roadmap for future activities.\n- Fostered Transnational Collaboration: Regular meetings and workshops facilitated continuous collaboration, leading to innovative solutions and a cohesive approach to circular economy initiatives.\n- Secured Commitment for Future Work: The consortium is well-prepared to submit a full-scale project application that is scheduled to be submitted on Septemer 2024 demonstrating the project's sustainability and long-term impact.\n\n\nSummary\n\nThe CircUpscale preparatory project has laid a solid foundation for future work in promoting industrial circular economy in the NPA area. By fostering strong partnerships and developing comprehensive project plans, the consortium is well-positioned to achieve significant impacts, contributing to the region's sustainable development and resource efficiency. The added value of transnational cooperation has been evident, enhancing the project's effectiveness and reach.","Mo i Rana, Kemi","NO, FI",{"$nulls":5},2]
["NPA0100039","Low Carbon Concrete for Arctic Climate with Excellent Sustainability and Durability","Cement and concrete have a significant share in the building industry and so in the generation of CO2 connected to their obtaining input materials, production and transportation. Therefore, the common aim of the cement and concrete industry is to implement solutions which will lead to a lower carbon footprint, uptake of a circular economy and ensure that their products have sufficient durability. Project Ar2CorD will focus on the optimisation of low carbon concrete (LCC) with the use of established and non-established (future) locally available supplementary cementitious materials (SCM), with substitution of minimally 30% of portland cement. There will be two main aims; the first will be an assessment of the durability of LLC (mainly freeze-thaw durability) by accelerated tests (established, modified or newly designed). The development and documentation of freeze-thaw method can serve as a foundation for the national annexe to NS-EN \n\n206. The second aim is to establish a long-term durability test site in Narvik harbour to enforce data gained from accelerated testing. The solutions to the issues created by the freeze-thaw cycle encountered in Arctic conditions will be addressed to achieve a suitable evaluation system for LCC. The frost resistance issue is likely the biggest challenge/obstacle in reducing the carbon footprint of concrete. Collaboration between experts from Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Finland is beneficial because of the combination of their expertise and dedication to sustainable concrete technology in Arctic conditions. The Ar2CorD project will be submitted for topic “\n\n2.3 Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy”.","2023-01-01","2026-04-30","(VI-B_NPaA_2) Strengthening the capacity for climate change adaptation, and resource sufficiency in NPA communities","RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","075 Support to environmentally-friendly production processes and resource efficiency in SMEs","N",1357160.45,"ERDF",307116.37,65,"During the first period, most of the activities were focused on the administration and initiation of the project activities. UiT as a project leader organized a kick-off meeting in Narvik where most of the partners participated in person, and the others joined online. During the two days kick-off meeting, we got to know each other better and reviewed the main parts of the application, such as the project overview, more detailed partner introduction and researcher involved directly in the project, overall objectives, budget, and reporting. We spend a big part on the work packages, time plan, outputs and results/deliverables. All participants were fully involved in discussions and more detailed plans for each WP and partners responsibilities/needs were defined. Management and communication took place on the second day after the 1st steering committee meeting. Ingrid Howes with Iveta Novakova from UiT described the project management structure containing members and meeting frequency of the Externa Advisory Board (once a year), Steering Committee (twice a year), and regular meetings (once a month). Meeting minutes from all meetings are always emailed and uploaded in MS Teams group where all the project documents are shared. The contract with the funding agency and partnership agreement were signed and uploaded in JEMS, so as all the other requested information. Communication and publicity of Ar2CorD project were initiated by establishing a website on UiT platform (https://en.uit.no/project/ar2cord), a project poster designed and displayed at all partners facilities, and introduction of the project to defined target groups.\nUiT activities, besides management and communication, were mainly connected to following: \n-hiring process for PhD candidates involved in the project \n–communication with Narvik Harbor about setting up the long-term monitoring facility \n–supervision of master's student thesis focused on the durability of concrete \n–contribution to WP1 and WP2\nWP2 is led by LTU who started activities and introduced them to other partners, the discussions are very good during regular monthly meetings. Also, the industry contributes a lot as this is a very actual topic and a long-lasting challenge in the Arctic region. \nWP3 was not initiated yet.\nProject progress during period 2 is according to plan in terms of technical activities, though the administrative activities are a little bit challenging and all partners work towards reporting of project period 1. In Period 2 there are no deliverables, outputs or results to be submitted. \n\nThe technical activities were focused on activities within all WP. Representatives of industrial partners, NORCEM, BI, PGronland, and BM-Valla actively contribute with knowledge from the industry and support academic partners with the distribution of raw material for LCC preparation. All partners jointly works towards target in WP1 and W2 while WP3 is progressing presently as discussion. \n\n\nThe administrative part was mainly focused on reporting, where we faced several obstacles and communication preparation of the posters and completing the website (https://en.uit.no/project/ar2cord). Regular meeting are commonly attended by all partner representatives and meeting minutes are provided shortly after the monthly meetings. During regular monthly meetings, we commonly spend 30 minutes on the administration and management of projects and 30 minutes on scientific/research tasks. Intensive contact with the NPA officer continues. During the second period, there was one meeting of the steering committee and one meeting of the external advisory board composed of representatives of associated partners. A representative of UiT participated in the lead partner meeting in Skelleftea. Two volunteers are planned to be involved in the project. UiT is still waiting for the administration's decision on the volunteer visa, and LTU engaged a volunteer through IVY to enhance dissemination and outreach efforts. RU plans to buy the German test CDF-CTF probably in the end of 2023. Discussion about the mid-term seminar and partner meeting hosted by Reykjavik University in approximately May 2024 started. Suggestions for presentation topics of individual partners.\nAll partners posted information  about participation in Ar2CorD project on their website (https://www.betong.heidelbergmaterials.se/sites/default/files/2025-02/Ar2CorD%20poster.pdf; https://www.bmvalla.is/frettir/althjodlegt-throunarverkefni-um-frosttholna-og-vistvaenni-steypu; https://www.ltu.se/en/research/research-subjects/building-materials/research-projects/research-in-buildning-materials/2023-12-07-ar2cord---low-carbon-concrete-for-arctic-climate-with-excellent-sustainability-and-durability; https://www.oulu.fi/en/projects/ar2cord-low-carbon-concrete-for-arctic-climate-excellent-sustainability-and-durability;  https://www.interregyouth.com/taking-concrete-steps-towards-carbon-neutrality-with-the-ar2cord-project/ and put out A3 poster. Continues progress and news are then posted on Ar2CorD website. ","Reykjavík , Östersund, Kjøpsvik, Reykjavik, Oulu, Lulea, Narvik","IS, SE, NO, FI",{"$nulls":5},7]

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["2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Northern Periphery and Arctic"]
["Go to keep.eu for much more on programmes, projects and partners of Territorial Cooperation"]
["Last updated: 2026-01-12"]
["Languages: EN"]
["Operation ID","Operation name","Partner name","Has the lead of the operation (Y/N)","Partner type","Type of organisation","PIC (Participant Identification Code)","Partner's IDs if not PIC","Town (main address)","Country (main address)","Town (department)","Country (department)","Contractors' name","Contractor’s VAT registration or tax identification number","Sub-Contractors' name","Sub-Contractors' VAT"]
["NPA0200066","Utilization of by-products of cheese-making and productization of whey in Northern area","University College Dublin","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE.6517386K","Dublin ","Ireland"]
["NPA0200066","Utilization of by-products of cheese-making and productization of whey in Northern area","Oulu university of applied sciences; Oulun ammattikorkeakoulu","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"2509747-8","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0200066","Utilization of by-products of cheese-making and productization of whey in Northern area","Teagasc – the Agriculture and Food Development Authority; Teagasc","N","partner","National public authority",null,"IE0650202O ","Fermoy","Ireland"]
["NPA0200066","Utilization of by-products of cheese-making and productization of whey in Northern area","Irish Rural Link Cooperative Society","N","partner","Other",null,"N.a.","Co. Westmeath","Ireland"]
["NPA0800242","Advanced Makerspaces for PiLot production by micro-Enterprises","Oulu university of applied sciences; Oulun ammattikorkeakoulu","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI25097478","OULU","Finland","OULU","Finland"]
["NPA0800242","Advanced Makerspaces for PiLot production by micro-Enterprises","University of Iceland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"19133","Reykjavik","Iceland","Reykjavik","Iceland"]
["NPA0800242","Advanced Makerspaces for PiLot production by micro-Enterprises","MANORHAMILTON INNOVATION & DEVELOPMENT CLG T/A FUTURE CAST","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"IE3334774EH","Manorhamilton","Ireland","Sligo","Ireland"]
["NPA0800242","Advanced Makerspaces for PiLot production by micro-Enterprises","University of Galway","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE0022578J","Galway","Ireland","Galway","Ireland"]
["NPA0800242","Advanced Makerspaces for PiLot production by micro-Enterprises","Centria University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"1097805-3","Kokkola","Finland"]
["NPA0300096","Empowering NPA Communities by Implementing STEM Ecosystems as a Tool for Navigating Change.","University of Galway","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","892274774","0022578J","Galway","Ireland"]
["NPA0300096","Empowering NPA Communities by Implementing STEM Ecosystems as a Tool for Navigating Change.","Husavik Academic Center","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"103750","Húsavík","Iceland","Húsavík","Iceland"]
["NPA0300096","Empowering NPA Communities by Implementing STEM Ecosystems as a Tool for Navigating Change.","LUMA Centre Finland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","884788508","FI03134717","Rovaniemi","Finland","Helsinki","Finland"]
["NPA0200072","Adapted and Resilient OATS for northern periphery areas","Natural Resources Institute Finland","Y","lead","National public authority",null,"FI02446292","Jyväskylä","Finland"]
["NPA0200072","Adapted and Resilient OATS for northern periphery areas","Agricultural University of Iceland","N","partner","National public authority",null,"Kt. 411204-3590","Borgarbyggð","Iceland"]
["NPA0700178","Attract skills and talent through Regional Innovation Capacity insights","REGION VÄSTERBOTTEN; Regionförbundet Västerbottens län","Y","lead","Regional public authority","996375659","SE 232100022201","Umeå","Sweden","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0700178","Attract skills and talent through Regional Innovation Capacity insights","Western Development Commission","N","partner","Regional public authority","953493414","IE9588395N","Roscommon","Ireland"]
["NPA0700178","Attract skills and talent through Regional Innovation Capacity insights","Sligo Leitrim ITS Regional Development Projects DAC, operating as AIM Centre","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider","887857685","IE3926731JH","Silgo","Ireland"]
["NPA0700178","Attract skills and talent through Regional Innovation Capacity insights","Savonia University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","934620221","FI26294633","Kuopio","Finland","Kuopio","Finland"]
["NPA0100039","Low Carbon Concrete for Arctic Climate with Excellent Sustainability and Durability","NORCEM AS; Norcem AS","N","partner","Enterprise, except SME","953928459","934949145","Oslo","Norway","Kjøpsvik","Norway"]
["NPA0100039","Low Carbon Concrete for Arctic Climate with Excellent Sustainability and Durability","Concrete Industry","N","partner","SME","885845032","SE556188389201","Stockholm","Sweden","Östersund","Sweden"]
["NPA0100039","Low Carbon Concrete for Arctic Climate with Excellent Sustainability and Durability","BM Vallá ehf.","N","partner","SME","885825826","103750","Reykjavík ","Iceland","Reykjavík ","Iceland"]
["NPA0100039","Low Carbon Concrete for Arctic Climate with Excellent Sustainability and Durability","UiT Norway's Arctic university","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations","999874643","970422528","Tromsø ","Norway","Narvik","Norway","Ofoten Mek AS, DuraMon AG","924426993, 232393911"]
["NPA0100039","Low Carbon Concrete for Arctic Climate with Excellent Sustainability and Durability","Lulea University of Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999876874","SE202100284101/202100-2841","Lulea","Sweden","Lulea","Sweden"]
["NPA0100039","Low Carbon Concrete for Arctic Climate with Excellent Sustainability and Durability","University of Oulu; University of Oulu","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999844670","FI02458955/003702458955","Oulu","Finland","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0100039","Low Carbon Concrete for Arctic Climate with Excellent Sustainability and Durability","Reykjavik University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999897923","510105-4190","Reykjavik","Iceland","Reykjavik","Iceland"]
["NPA0700189","Supply Chain Integration for Interoperability & Enhanced Resilience of SMEs in remote regions","Sligo County Council","N","partner","Local public authority","896758211","IE9586690F","Sligo","Ireland"]
["NPA0700189","Supply Chain Integration for Interoperability & Enhanced Resilience of SMEs in remote regions","Good4u","N","partner","SME",null,"IE2976331PH","Sligo","Ireland"]
["NPA0700189","Supply Chain Integration for Interoperability & Enhanced Resilience of SMEs in remote regions","Seamless Aluminium Ltd","N","partner","SME","880329321","IE4591403J","Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal","Ireland"]
["NPA0700189","Supply Chain Integration for Interoperability & Enhanced Resilience of SMEs in remote regions","Sligo Leitrim ITS Regional Development Projects DAC, operating as the AIM Centre","Y","lead","Infrastructure and (public) service provider","885903620","3728113CH","Sligo","Ireland"]
["NPA0700189","Supply Chain Integration for Interoperability & Enhanced Resilience of SMEs in remote regions","Luleå tekniska universitet, Hälsovetenskap; Luleå University of Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999876874","SE202100284101","Luleå","Sweden"]
["NPA0700189","Supply Chain Integration for Interoperability & Enhanced Resilience of SMEs in remote regions","Centria University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","997172708","FI10978053","Kokkola","Finland"]
["NPA0700189","Supply Chain Integration for Interoperability & Enhanced Resilience of SMEs in remote regions","North Karelia Chamber of Commerce","N","partner","Business support organisation","887952648","FI02790333","JOENSUU","Finland"]
["NPA0700189","Supply Chain Integration for Interoperability & Enhanced Resilience of SMEs in remote regions","University of Iceland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999884246","19133","Reykjavik","Iceland"]
["NPA0700172","Sewage management in cold and sparsely populated regions: solutions for the Arctic in view of a changing climate and emerging contaminants","Lumire","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider","891878723","SE 5560190331","Luleå","Sweden"]
["NPA0700172","Sewage management in cold and sparsely populated regions: solutions for the Arctic in view of a changing climate and emerging contaminants","University of Oulu; University of Oulu","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations","999844670","0245895-5","Oulu","Finland","Oulu","Finland","Inergia Oy/Inarin Lapin Vesi, Fisher Scientific Oy","0644614-2, 2281126-9"]
["NPA0700172","Sewage management in cold and sparsely populated regions: solutions for the Arctic in view of a changing climate and emerging contaminants","Luleå tekniska universitet, Hälsovetenskap; Luleå University of Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999876874","SE202100284101","Luleå","Sweden"]
["NPA0700172","Sewage management in cold and sparsely populated regions: solutions for the Arctic in view of a changing climate and emerging contaminants","Technical University of Denmark","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999990655","30 06 09 46","Sisimiut","Greenland"]
["NPA0700172","Sewage management in cold and sparsely populated regions: solutions for the Arctic in view of a changing climate and emerging contaminants","EFLA","N","partner","Enterprise, except SME","971026455","621079-0189","Reykjavík","Iceland","Reykjavík","Iceland"]
["NPA0800227","Valorization of Industrial Waste Streams for Battery Grade Silicon.","Centria University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"1097805-3","KOKKOLA","Finland"]
["NPA0800227","Valorization of Industrial Waste Streams for Battery Grade Silicon.","University of Eastern Finland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI22857339","Kuopio","Finland","Kuopio","Finland"]
["NPA0800227","Valorization of Industrial Waste Streams for Battery Grade Silicon.","University of Iceland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"19133","Reykjavik","Iceland","Reykjavik","Iceland"]
["NPA0800227","Valorization of Industrial Waste Streams for Battery Grade Silicon.","University of Limerick","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE6609370G","Limerick","Ireland","Limerick","Ireland"]
["NPA0800227","Valorization of Industrial Waste Streams for Battery Grade Silicon.","Luleå tekniska universitet, Hälsovetenskap; Luleå University of Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100284101","Luleå","Sweden","Luleå","Sweden"]
["NPA0800227","Valorization of Industrial Waste Streams for Battery Grade Silicon.","MACON Ltd","N","partner","SME",null,"FI26627872","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0200056","Mapping and valuing blue carbon for utilization in marine spatial planning","Marine Institute","Y","lead","National public authority",null,"IE6600338L","Galway","Ireland"]
["NPA0200056","Mapping and valuing blue carbon for utilization in marine spatial planning","Greenland Institute of Natural Resources","N","partner","National public authority",null,"40507515","Nuuk","Greenland","Nuuk","Greenland"]
["NPA0700171","Bauhaus Goes North","City of Bodø","N","partner","Local public authority","905220976","972 418 013","Bodø","Norway"]
["NPA0700171","Bauhaus Goes North","UiT Norway's Arctic university","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999874643","970422528","Narvik","Norway"]
["NPA0700171","Bauhaus Goes North","Oulu university of applied sciences; Oulun ammattikorkeakoulu","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"N/A2509747-8","Oulu","Finland","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0700171","Bauhaus Goes North","University College Cork","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations","999975717","IE 0006286E ","Cork","Ireland","Cork","Ireland"]
["NPA0700171","Bauhaus Goes North","Cork County Council","N","partner","Local public authority","971322402","0007458M","Cork","Ireland","Cork","Ireland"]
["NPA0700171","Bauhaus Goes North","Umeå University; University of Umeå","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100287401","Umeå","Sweden","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0700171","Bauhaus Goes North","Green Building Council Iceland","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs","889323743","460510-1550","Reykjavík","Iceland"]
["NPA0200078","(BGN) Bauhaus Goes North -Bauhaus Housing Principles for the Norther Periphery and Arctic Region","Oulu university of applied sciences; Oulun ammattikorkeakoulu","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"25097478","OULU","Finland"]
["NPA0200078","(BGN) Bauhaus Goes North -Bauhaus Housing Principles for the Norther Periphery and Arctic Region","Oulu University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"25097478","OULU","Finland"]
["NPA0200078","(BGN) Bauhaus Goes North -Bauhaus Housing Principles for the Norther Periphery and Arctic Region","University Collge Cork","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null," IE 0006286E","Cork","Ireland","Cork","Ireland"]
["NPA0800237","From waste to worth: Building a value chain for underutilized natural fibres as feedstock in 3D printing","Luleå tekniska universitet, Hälsovetenskap; Luleå University of Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100284101","Luleå","Sweden","Luleå","Sweden"]
["NPA0800237","From waste to worth: Building a value chain for underutilized natural fibres as feedstock in 3D printing","Centria University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI10978053","Kokkola","Finland","Kokkola","Finland"]
["NPA0800237","From waste to worth: Building a value chain for underutilized natural fibres as feedstock in 3D printing","MANORHAMILTON INNOVATION & DEVELOPMENT CLG T/A FUTURE CAST","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"IE 3702885NH","Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim","Ireland","Toberbride, Collooney","Ireland"]
["NPA0800237","From waste to worth: Building a value chain for underutilized natural fibres as feedstock in 3D printing","Munster Technological University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE 3714786EH","Tralee, Co Kerry","Ireland"]
["NPA0800237","From waste to worth: Building a value chain for underutilized natural fibres as feedstock in 3D printing","Innomost Ltd.","N","partner","SME",null,"FI27937805","Kokkola","Finland"]
["NPA0800237","From waste to worth: Building a value chain for underutilized natural fibres as feedstock in 3D printing","Umeå University; University of Umeå","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100287401","Umeå","Sweden","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0600153","3D Printing with Bio-based Materials in a Circular Economy Context","Munster Technological University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE 3714786EH","Tralee","Ireland"]
["NPA0600153","3D Printing with Bio-based Materials in a Circular Economy Context","Centria University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI10978053","Kokkola","Finland"]
["NPA0800212","Boosting Continuity and Digitalisation of Rural Region Businesses","Munster Technological University","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE714786EH","Cork","Ireland","Cork","Ireland"]
["NPA0800212","Boosting Continuity and Digitalisation of Rural Region Businesses","Westfjords Regional Development Office","N","partner","Regional public authority",null," ID: 580518-1170 ","Ísafjörður ","Iceland"]
["NPA0800212","Boosting Continuity and Digitalisation of Rural Region Businesses","East Iceland Regional Development Office","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"640512-0160 ","Egilsstaðir ","Iceland"]
["NPA0800212","Boosting Continuity and Digitalisation of Rural Region Businesses","University of Oulu; University of Oulu","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI02458955 ","Oulu","Finland","Nivala","Finland"]
["NPA0800212","Boosting Continuity and Digitalisation of Rural Region Businesses","Business Joensuu Ltd","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"FI29212701","Joensuu","Finland"]
["NPA0800212","Boosting Continuity and Digitalisation of Rural Region Businesses","Lapland University of Applied Sciences Ltd","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI25287925","Rovaniemi","Finland","Tornio","Finland"]
["NPA0200063","Building Resilient And Innovative Networks among rural communities","Karelia University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI24543771"," Joensuu","Finland","Joensuu","Finland"]
["NPA0200063","Building Resilient And Innovative Networks among rural communities","Innovation and Management Centre CLG T/A WestBIC","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"4672192W","Galway","Ireland"]
["NPA0200063","Building Resilient And Innovative Networks among rural communities","Federation of Regional Authorities NW Iceland","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"888801689  (PIC Number)"," Hvammstangi","Iceland"]
["NPA0200063","Building Resilient And Innovative Networks among rural communities","Mayo County Council","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"IE8F03186T","Castlebar ","Ireland"]
["NPA0200063","Building Resilient And Innovative Networks among rural communities","The Gaeltacht Authority; Údarás na Gaeltachta","Y","lead","Regional public authority",null,"O5399180O","Galway","Ireland"]
["NPA0200079","Biodiversity sustaining carbon management in degraded lands and cut-away peatlands in Northern periphery and Arctic regions","University of Eastern Finland","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI22857339","Joensuu","Finland","Joensuu","Finland"]
["NPA0200079","Biodiversity sustaining carbon management in degraded lands and cut-away peatlands in Northern periphery and Arctic regions","Agricultural University of Iceland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"988542036","Borgarbyggð","Iceland","Reykjavík","Iceland"]
["NPA0200079","Biodiversity sustaining carbon management in degraded lands and cut-away peatlands in Northern periphery and Arctic regions","NTNU; Norweigan University of Science and Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"999977851","Trondheim","Norway","Trondheim","Norway"]
["NPA0700186","Building Bridges of Shared Capacity between Scientists, Policymakers, and Communities","Icelandic Museum of Natural History","Y","lead","National public authority",null,"520707-0340","Reykjavík","Iceland"]
["NPA0700186","Building Bridges of Shared Capacity between Scientists, Policymakers, and Communities","Arctic Frontiers","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs","885359838","924115920","Tromsø","Norway"]
["NPA0700186","Building Bridges of Shared Capacity between Scientists, Policymakers, and Communities","University of Lapland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","998208474","0292800-5","Rovaniemi","Finland"]
["NPA0400110","Carbon Management for Building Resilience: Local Capacity Development for Sustainable Resource Management, Climate Change Adaptation, and Carbon Mitigation in Sparsely Populated Communities","Oulu university of applied sciences; Oulun ammattikorkeakoulu","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"2509747-8","Oulu","Finland","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0400110","Carbon Management for Building Resilience: Local Capacity Development for Sustainable Resource Management, Climate Change Adaptation, and Carbon Mitigation in Sparsely Populated Communities","Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences","N","partner","National public authority",null,"SE202100281701","Uppsala","Sweden","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0400110","Carbon Management for Building Resilience: Local Capacity Development for Sustainable Resource Management, Climate Change Adaptation, and Carbon Mitigation in Sparsely Populated Communities","Natural Resources Institute Finland","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI02446292","Joensuu","Finland"]
["NPA0600158","Cascading use of side streams to produce sustainable battery chemicals","University of Eastern Finland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI22857339","Kuopio","Finland","Kuopio","Finland"]
["NPA0600158","Cascading use of side streams to produce sustainable battery chemicals","University of Iceland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"19133","Reykjavik","Iceland"," Reykjavik","Iceland"]
["NPA0600158","Cascading use of side streams to produce sustainable battery chemicals","Centria University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI10978053","Kokkola","Finland"]
["NPA0200065","Societal Growth in Renewable Energy and Storage Innovation","Mid Sweden University","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100452401","Sundsvall","Sweden","Sundsvall","Sweden"]
["NPA0200065","Societal Growth in Renewable Energy and Storage Innovation","Oulu university of applied sciences; Oulun ammattikorkeakoulu","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"25097478","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0200065","Societal Growth in Renewable Energy and Storage Innovation","Atlantic Technological University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE6539078V","Letterkenny","Ireland"]
["NPA0100004","Blue Circular Nets","University of Oulu; University of Oulu","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI02458955 ","University of Oulu","Finland","University of Oulu","Finland","Pohjoisen panimo Maistila Oy, Juvenes Oy, Viikinkiravintola Harald Oy, Punamusta Oy, Lapin Messut Oy, Scancap Finland Oy, Vihiluodon Kala Oy, Design Inspis Oy","2660368-6, 0155602-7, 2208168-1, 1735961-8, 2082378-4, 1103853-0, 1438010-4, 2855786-3"]
["NPA0100004","Blue Circular Nets","NTNU; Norweigan University of Science and Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"NO 974767880","Trondheim","Norway","-","Norway"]
["NPA0100004","Blue Circular Nets","Norwegian University of Science and Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"NO 974767880","Trondheim","Norway","-","Norway"]
["NPA0100004","Blue Circular Nets","Western Development Commission","N","partner","Regional public authority","953493414","IE9588395N","Ballaghaderreen","Ireland","-","Ireland","Clean Technology Centre ","3714786EH"]
["NPA0100004","Blue Circular Nets","National University of Ireland Galway","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999978045","IE0022578J","Galway","Ireland","-","Ireland"]
["NPA0100004","Blue Circular Nets","Marine Ecological Solutions","N","partner","SME","938975424","IS-80703","Reykjavik","Iceland",null,null,"KEF Parking , Kronan, Sjavargrillid restaurant , Brimrun , Mar Eco ","No VAT, 62065, 107681, 35966, No VAT, No VAT"]
["NPA0100004","Blue Circular Nets","Municipality of Sotenäs","N","partner","Local public authority","901013310","SE212000132201","Kungshamn","Sweden","Kungshamn","Sweden"]
["NPA0300090","COmmunity based virtual POWER plant","Donegal County Council","N","partner","Local public authority","950634630","8F28103W","Lifford","Ireland","Lifford","Ireland"]
["NPA0300090","COmmunity based virtual POWER plant","Nolsoy Energy Ltd","N","partner","SME",null,"589659","Nólsoy","Faroe Islands","Nólsoy","Faroe Islands"]
["NPA0300090","COmmunity based virtual POWER plant","European Regions Network for the Application of Communications Technology","Y","lead","International organisation, EEIG","964478470","IE6544273A","Letterkenny","Ireland","Letterkenny","Ireland"]
["NPA0300090","COmmunity based virtual POWER plant","Centria University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","997172708","FI10978053","Kokkola","Finland","Kokkola","Finland"]
["NPA0300090","COmmunity based virtual POWER plant","University of Oulu; University of Oulu","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999844670","FI02458955","Oulu","Finland","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0300090","COmmunity based virtual POWER plant","University of Iceland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999884246","19133","Reykjavik","Iceland","Reykjavik","Iceland"]
["NPA0400111","CircUpscale","Kunnskapsparken Helgeland AS","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"NO984660189","Mo i Rana","Norway","Mo i Rana","Norway"]
["NPA0400111","CircUpscale","Kemin Digipolis Oy","Y","lead","Local public authority",null,"FI09354411","Kemi","Finland","Kemi","Finland"]
["NPA0800223","Innovative tools for farmers to optimize the management of harvested grasslands","Svarmi","N","partner","SME",null,"114204","Kópavogur","Iceland"]
["NPA0800223","Innovative tools for farmers to optimize the management of harvested grasslands","Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100281701","Umeå","Sweden","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0800223","Innovative tools for farmers to optimize the management of harvested grasslands","Rural Economy and Agricultural Society Norrbotten- Västerbotten","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"SE262000025301","Luleå","Sweden","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0800223","Innovative tools for farmers to optimize the management of harvested grasslands","Natural Resources Institute Finland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI02446292","Helsinki","Finland","Kuopio","Finland"]
["NPA0800223","Innovative tools for farmers to optimize the management of harvested grasslands","Finnish Geospatial Research Institute in National Land Survey of Finland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI02459544","Helsinki","Finland","Espoo","Finland"]
["NPA0800223","Innovative tools for farmers to optimize the management of harvested grasslands","The Icelandic Agricultural Advisory Center","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"IS113074","Akureyri","Iceland","Akureyri","Iceland"]
["NPA0300093","Digital Action on Climate Change with Heritage Environments","Gunnar Gunnarsson Institute","N","partner","Other","889736090","67073","Egilsstadir","Iceland"]
["NPA0300093","Digital Action on Climate Change with Heritage Environments","University of Iceland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999884246","600169-2039","Reykjavík","Iceland","Reykjavík","Iceland"]
["NPA0300093","Digital Action on Climate Change with Heritage Environments","Faroe Islands National Museum","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"629006","Hoyvik","Faroe Islands","Tórshavn","Faroe Islands"]
["NPA0300093","Digital Action on Climate Change with Heritage Environments","Tindved Kulturhage AS","N","partner","SME","897609386","887 921 512","Verdal ","Norway","Verdal ","Norway"]
["NPA0300093","Digital Action on Climate Change with Heritage Environments","Nord University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","998222927","970940243"," Bodø","Norway","Røstad ","Norway"]
["NPA0300093","Digital Action on Climate Change with Heritage Environments","Jamtli Foundation; Jamtli museum","Y","lead","Other","951186172","893200030301","Östersund","Sweden",null,null,"Hyper Island ","SE556783310701"]
["NPA0300093","Digital Action on Climate Change with Heritage Environments","Donegal County Museum","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"IE 8F 28103W"," Letterkenny","Ireland",null,null,"John Cronin Associates","6394240B"]
["NPA0300093","Digital Action on Climate Change with Heritage Environments","Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning & Creativity svb","N","partner","SME","948952650","556173-6280","Östersund","Sweden"]
["NPA0600155","Enhancing digital entrepreneurship and business transfer readiness in sparsely populated and peripherical regions","Munster Technological University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE714786EH | PIC 892106673","Cork","Ireland"]
["NPA0600155","Enhancing digital entrepreneurship and business transfer readiness in sparsely populated and peripherical regions","Business Joensuu Ltd","Y","lead","Regional public authority",null,"FI29212701 | PIC 902569287","Joensuu","Finland"]
["NPA0200077","Utilising the SEA to mitigate climate change and Strengthening Coastal Communities","Nua na Mara, officially MIDC PÁIRC NA MARA","Y","lead","Sectoral agency",null,"3732507WH","Carna","Ireland"]
["NPA0200077","Utilising the SEA to mitigate climate change and Strengthening Coastal Communities","Troms & Finnmark County Council","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"922 420 866"," Vadsø","Norway"]
["NPA0100045","Energy & Resource Recovery from Wastewater for Circular Economy","The Environmental Agency","N","partner","National public authority","101022892","405388","Argir ","Faroe Islands"]
["NPA0100045","Energy & Resource Recovery from Wastewater for Circular Economy","Arctic Experts","N","partner","SME","893532088","924961600","Bodø ","Norway"]
["NPA0100045","Energy & Resource Recovery from Wastewater for Circular Economy","UiT Norway's Arctic university","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations","999874643","970 422 528 ","Tromso","Norway","Narvik","Norway"]
["NPA0100045","Energy & Resource Recovery from Wastewater for Circular Economy","National University of Ireland, Galway","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999978045","IE0022578J","Galway","Ireland","Galway","Ireland"]
["NPA0800248","Empowering Communities through Forest Carbon Farming: Building Climate Resilience and Sustainable Resource Management","Oulu university of applied sciences; Oulun ammattikorkeakoulu","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"2509747-8","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0800248","Empowering Communities through Forest Carbon Farming: Building Climate Resilience and Sustainable Resource Management","Natural Resources Institute Finland","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI02446292","Joensuu","Finland",null,null,"Savo-Karjalan Linja Oy , Sulo Ravintolat Oy, Oravamedia Oy , Rautakyökki Oy ","0207523-3, 2627135-1, 1797984-1, 3138134-4"]
["NPA0800248","Empowering Communities through Forest Carbon Farming: Building Climate Resilience and Sustainable Resource Management","Agricultural University of Iceland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"411204-3590","Hvanneyri","Iceland"]
["NPA0800248","Empowering Communities through Forest Carbon Farming: Building Climate Resilience and Sustainable Resource Management","GREEN SKIBBEREEN","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"667067","LEAP, Co CORK","Ireland"]
["NPA0800203","Geographical Indication boosting Food, Non-food and Tourism sectors in Northern areas","University of Helsinki Ruralia Institute","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI03134717 ","Mikkeli","Finland","NA","Finland"]
["NPA0800203","Geographical Indication boosting Food, Non-food and Tourism sectors in Northern areas","Ministry of Agriculture, Self-Sufficiency, Energy and Environment","N","partner","National public authority",null,"5790001955564","Nuuk","Greenland"]
["NPA0800203","Geographical Indication boosting Food, Non-food and Tourism sectors in Northern areas","Local Enterprise Office, Donegal County Council","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"IE8F28103W","Donegal","Ireland","NA","Ireland"]
["NPA0800203","Geographical Indication boosting Food, Non-food and Tourism sectors in Northern areas","Icelandic Lamb","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"103750","Reykjavik ","Iceland","NA","Iceland"]
["NPA0600148","Geographical Indication boosting Food and Tourism sectors in Northern areas","University of Helsinki; University of Helsinki","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI 03134717 | 999 994 535 | 000 000 000 (EN)","Mikkeli","Finland"]
["NPA0600148","Geographical Indication boosting Food and Tourism sectors in Northern areas","Icelandic Lamb","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"103750","Reykjavik","Iceland"]
["NPA0600148","Geographical Indication boosting Food and Tourism sectors in Northern areas","Local Enterprise Office, Donegal County Council","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"IE8F28103W | 000 000 000 (EN)","Donegal","Ireland"]
["NPA0100021","Green energy technologies for tourism growth.","Federation of Northern Lapland munincipalities (Sodankylä, Inari, Utsjoki); Pohjois-Lapin alueyhteistyön kuntayhtymä","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"1510651-0 ","Sodankylä ","Finland","Sodankylä","Finland","Arctic Stargazing Tours","FI33182541"]
["NPA0100021","Green energy technologies for tourism growth.","Karelia University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI24543771","Joensuu","Finland"]
["NPA0100021","Green energy technologies for tourism growth.","Federation of Regional Authorities NW Iceland","N","partner","Local public authority","888801689","N.a.","Hvammstangi","Iceland","-","Iceland"]
["NPA0100021","Green energy technologies for tourism growth.","The Gaeltacht Authority; Údarás na Gaeltachta","N","partner","Regional public authority","905308179","O5399180O","Béal an Átha","Ireland","-","Ireland","Zenotec","3471462BH, 09724026SA"]
["NPA0100021","Green energy technologies for tourism growth.","Innovation and Management Centre WestBIC","N","partner","Business support organisation","924279051","4672192W","Galway","Ireland"]
["NPA0100021","Green energy technologies for tourism growth.","UiT Norway's Arctic university","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999874643","940722528","Tromsø","Norway","Narvik","Norway"]
["NPA0100025","Hybrid energy solutions for buildings, and infrastructure","City of Umeå; Umeå kommun","N","partner","Local public authority","999651446","SE2120002627","UMEÅ","Sweden","UMEÅ","Sweden"]
["NPA0100025","Hybrid energy solutions for buildings, and infrastructure","Umeå University; Umeå University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100287401","Umeå","Sweden","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0100025","Hybrid energy solutions for buildings, and infrastructure","Umeå University; University of Umeå","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100287401","Umeå","Sweden","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0100025","Hybrid energy solutions for buildings, and infrastructure","Nordland Research Institute","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations","941316325","989 714 309 ","Bodø","Norway"]
["NPA0100025","Hybrid energy solutions for buildings, and infrastructure","Cork County Council","N","partner","Local public authority","971322402","0007458M","Cork","Ireland","Cork","Ireland"]
["NPA0100025","Hybrid energy solutions for buildings, and infrastructure","National Energy Authority","N","partner","National public authority","969550406","ID: 5002695379, VAT: 02135","Akureyri","Iceland","Akureyri","Iceland"]
["NPA0100025","Hybrid energy solutions for buildings, and infrastructure","Secure and Fix It Enterprises T/A NCE Insulation","N","partner","SME","906754740","636380T","CORK","Ireland","Cork","Ireland"]
["NPA0100025","Hybrid energy solutions for buildings, and infrastructure","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999975717"," IE 0006286E ","Cork","Ireland","Cork","Ireland"]
["NPA0100025","Hybrid energy solutions for buildings, and infrastructure","Environment Agency","N","partner","National public authority",null,"GLN/EAN nr. 5797100000737","Argir","Faroe Islands","Argir","Faroe Islands"]
["NPA0100025","Hybrid energy solutions for buildings, and infrastructure","City of Bodø","N","partner","Regional public authority","905220976","972 418 013","Bodø","Norway","Bodø","Norway"]
["NPA0100025","Hybrid energy solutions for buildings, and infrastructure","Icelandic Environmental and Energy Agency","N","partner","National public authority","873734485","ID: 7009241650, VAT: 02135","Akureyri","Iceland","Akureyri","Iceland"]
["NPA0100032","Building public sector innovation capacity towards digital-driven NPA communities","University of Helsinki; University of Helsinki","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999994535","FI03134717","Mikkeli","Finland","Mikkeli","Finland"]
["NPA0100032","Building public sector innovation capacity towards digital-driven NPA communities","Association of Municipalities of the South Iceland","N","partner","Local public authority","900246040","480775-0159","Selfoss","Iceland",null,null,"Origo","32790"]
["NPA0100032","Building public sector innovation capacity towards digital-driven NPA communities","National University of Ireland, Galway","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999978045","IE0022578J","Galway","Ireland","Galway","Ireland"]
["NPA0100032","Building public sector innovation capacity towards digital-driven NPA communities","European Regions Network for the Application of Communications Technology","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs","964478470","6544273A","Letterkenny","Ireland",null,null,"McGonagle Bus & Coach Hire","-"]
["NPA0100032","Building public sector innovation capacity towards digital-driven NPA communities","Association of Local Authorities Västernorrland; Association of Local Authorities in Västernorrland County","N","partner","Local public authority","998097894","SE222000063801","Härnösand","Sweden",null,null,"XLENT Norr AB, Technichus i Mittsverige AB, Adda AB, Elite PlazaHotel Örnsköldsvik , First Hotell Statt, FirstHotellStatt via Blue Note","25000, 18750, 18750, 1592,6, 513,75, 1750"]
["NPA0100032","Building public sector innovation capacity towards digital-driven NPA communities","Donegal County Council","N","partner","Local public authority","950634630","8F28103W","Lifford","Ireland","Lifford","Ireland"]
["NPA0800202","Innovation Through Gamification Solutions","University of Iceland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IS019133","Reykjavík","Iceland"]
["NPA0800202","Innovation Through Gamification Solutions","Savonia University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI26294633","Kuopio","Finland"]
["NPA0800202","Innovation Through Gamification Solutions","REGION VÄSTERBOTTEN; Regionförbundet Västerbottens län","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"SE232100022201","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0800202","Innovation Through Gamification Solutions","Creative Crowd AB","N","partner","SME",null,"SE556958669501","Skellefteå","Sweden"]
["NPA0800202","Innovation Through Gamification Solutions","Galway Film Resource Centre CLG t/a Ardán","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"000 000 000","Galway","Ireland"]
["NPA0800202","Innovation Through Gamification Solutions","Humak; HUMAK","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI14747631","Kuopio","Finland"]
["NPA0800202","Innovation Through Gamification Solutions","Government of Greenland","N","partner","National public authority",null,"PIC 876041436","Nuuk","Greenland"]
["NPA0300095","Business Models Empowering Rural Social Entrepreneurship – voicing the rural norm","The Gaeltacht Authority; Údarás na Gaeltachta","N","partner","Regional public authority","905308179","IE0539918O","Galway","Ireland","Galway","Ireland"]
["NPA0300095","Business Models Empowering Rural Social Entrepreneurship – voicing the rural norm","KBT Vocational School","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","904965381","924 519 991","Trondheim","Norway"]
["NPA0300095","Business Models Empowering Rural Social Entrepreneurship – voicing the rural norm","Coompanion Co-operative Development","N","partner","Business support organisation","884208448","SE716460386701","Sundsvall","Sweden"]
["NPA0300095","Business Models Empowering Rural Social Entrepreneurship – voicing the rural norm","University of Helsinki; University of Helsinki","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999994535","FI03134717","MIKKELI","Finland","Mikkeli","Finland"]
["NPA0300095","Business Models Empowering Rural Social Entrepreneurship – voicing the rural norm","Mid Sweden University","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations","891390522","SE202100452401","Östersund","Sweden",null,null,"Creative Crowd AB, SIA \"20 ābeles\", Social Enterprise Academy","556958-6695, 40103765317, 272855"]
["NPA0300095","Business Models Empowering Rural Social Entrepreneurship – voicing the rural norm","Westfjords Regional Development Office","N","partner","Regional public authority","885308040","5805181170","Ísafjörður","Iceland"]
["NPA0800200","Mission-oriented innovation towards digital and green transitions in the NPA communities","European Regions Network for the Application of Communications Technology","Y","lead","International organisation, EEIG",null,"6544273A","Letterkenny","Ireland"]
["NPA0800200","Mission-oriented innovation towards digital and green transitions in the NPA communities","Örnsköldsvik Municipality; Örnsköldsviks kommun","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"2120002445","Örnsköldsvik","Sweden"]
["NPA0800200","Mission-oriented innovation towards digital and green transitions in the NPA communities","Donegal County Council","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"8F28103W","Lifford","Ireland"]
["NPA0800200","Mission-oriented innovation towards digital and green transitions in the NPA communities","University of Helsinki; University of Helsinki","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI03134717","Helsinki","Finland","Mikkeli","Finland"]
["NPA0800200","Mission-oriented innovation towards digital and green transitions in the NPA communities","Umeå University; University of Umeå","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100287401","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0600152","Mission-oriented innovation towards digital and green transitions in the NPA communities","Umeå University; University of Umeå","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100287401","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0600152","Mission-oriented innovation towards digital and green transitions in the NPA communities","European Regions Network for the Application of Communications Technology","Y","lead","International organisation, EEIG",null,"6544273A | PIC Number : 964478470","Letterkenny","Ireland"]
["NPA0600152","Mission-oriented innovation towards digital and green transitions in the NPA communities","University of Helsinki; University of Helsinki","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI03134717 | PIC Number : 999994535","Helsinki","Finland","Mikkeli","Finland"]
["NPA0300102","Literary Tourism Immersive Technology Acceleration","Kajaani University of Applied Sciences; Kajaanin ammattikorkeakoulu","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","949621465","FI25536004","KAJAANI","Finland","Kajaani","Finland"]
["NPA0300102","Literary Tourism Immersive Technology Acceleration","Regional Council of Kainuu; Regional Council of Kainuu","N","partner","Regional public authority","950575169","FI2496992-4","Kajaani","Finland",null,null,null,"3106458-4"]
["NPA0300102","Literary Tourism Immersive Technology Acceleration","Visit Tórshavn","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"352675","Torshavn","Faroe Islands","Torshavn","Faroe Islands"]
["NPA0300102","Literary Tourism Immersive Technology Acceleration","REGION VÄSTERBOTTEN; Regionförbundet Västerbottens län","N","partner","Regional public authority","996375659","SE232100022201","Umeå","Sweden","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0300102","Literary Tourism Immersive Technology Acceleration","The Nordland Museum","N","partner","Other","916567939","985413339","Torvgata 8B","Norway","Nordland","Norway"]
["NPA0300102","Literary Tourism Immersive Technology Acceleration","Kainuun liitto; Kainuun liitto","N","partner","Regional public authority","950575169","FI2496992-4","Kajaani","Finland",null,null,null,"3106458-4"]
["NPA0300102","Literary Tourism Immersive Technology Acceleration","Western Development Commission","Y","lead","Regional public authority","953493414","9588395N","Ballaghadereen","Ireland","Ballaghadereen","Ireland","Resonate, Look Alive Cian Quinn, James Connolly /Picsell 8 Ltd, Gourment Parlour, Mike McCarthy, Karan thompson Consulting Ltd, Printfix, Club Travel","IE7299366D, N/A, IE 6397741P, IE6434473S, N/A, 9642799N, IE 6372672 I , IE4690763S"]
["NPA0800244","Northern and Arctic Communities Emergency Management and Preparedness","Ambipar Response Ltd","N","partner","SME",null,"IE3612906RH","Cork","Ireland"]
["NPA0800244","Northern and Arctic Communities Emergency Management and Preparedness","University of Akureyri; University of Akureyri","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"520687-1229  ","Akyreyri","Iceland"]
["NPA0800244","Northern and Arctic Communities Emergency Management and Preparedness","The Finnish National Rescue Association","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"FI09129345","Helsinki","Finland"]
["NPA0800244","Northern and Arctic Communities Emergency Management and Preparedness","The Association of Municipalities of Northeast Iceland","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"5611922199","Húsavík ","Iceland"]
["NPA0800244","Northern and Arctic Communities Emergency Management and Preparedness","Munster Technological University","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE3714786EH","Cork","Ireland","Cork","Ireland"]
["NPA0800244","Northern and Arctic Communities Emergency Management and Preparedness","Laurea University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI10462161","Vantaa","Finland",null,null,"GBT Finland Oy","FI02152075"]
["NPA0700187","Arctic and North Atlantic Mass Rescue Operation Guidelines","Munster Technological University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","892106673","IE3714786EH","Cork","Ireland","Cork","Ireland"]
["NPA0700187","Arctic and North Atlantic Mass Rescue Operation Guidelines","Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Norway","Y","lead","National public authority","923093032","971390425","Bodø","Norway"]
["NPA0700187","Arctic and North Atlantic Mass Rescue Operation Guidelines","Icelandic Coast Guard","N","partner","National public authority","922765366","98786","Reykjavik","Iceland"]
["NPA0200058","Value chain analyses of transdisciplinary “KET-enabled” makerspaces","University of Galway","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE0022578J","Galway","Ireland","Galway","Ireland"]
["NPA0200058","Value chain analyses of transdisciplinary “KET-enabled” makerspaces","University of Iceland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"19133","Reykjavik","Iceland","Reykjavik","Iceland"]
["NPA0200058","Value chain analyses of transdisciplinary “KET-enabled” makerspaces","Centria University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"1097805-3","KOKKOLA","Finland"]
["NPA0500141","Northern Buildings in Changing Climate","Reykjavik University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","966834406","Kt. 510105-4190","Reykjavik","Iceland","Reykjavík","Iceland"]
["NPA0500141","Northern Buildings in Changing Climate","UiT Norway's Arctic university","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations","999874643","970422528","Narvik","Norway"]
["NPA0500141","Northern Buildings in Changing Climate","University of Oulu; University of Oulu","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999844670","FI02458955","Oulu","Finland","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0500141","Northern Buildings in Changing Climate","Nuuk Architects & Planners a/s","N","partner","SME",null,"CVR-no  11729800","Nuuk","Greenland"]
["NPA0500141","Northern Buildings in Changing Climate","Umeå University; University of Umeå","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100287401","Umeå","Sweden","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0800216","Nordic Bridge","Association of municipalities in North East Iceland","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"882469141 - PIC Number","Sími","Iceland"]
["NPA0800216","Nordic Bridge","Bodo Business Forum","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"976726375","Bodø ","Norway"]
["NPA0800216","Nordic Bridge","Holar University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"969226426","Holar","Iceland"]
["NPA0800216","Nordic Bridge","Lapin ammattikorkeakoulu; Lapland University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI25287925","Rovaniemi","Finland","Rovaniemi","Finland"]
["NPA0800216","Nordic Bridge","Nord University","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"NO 970940243 MVA","Bodø","Norway"]
["NPA0800216","Nordic Bridge","Atlantic Technological University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"3926731JH","Letterkenny Co Donegal ","Ireland"]
["NPA0800216","Nordic Bridge","Sligo Leitrim ITS Regional Development Projects DAC trading as AIM Centre","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider",null,"3728113CH","Sligo","Ireland"]
["NPA0600147","Bridging Gaps through Problem-Solution Matchmaking in the Nordic Region","Holar University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"969226426 | 969226426 | PIC Number (EN)","Holar","Iceland"]
["NPA0600147","Bridging Gaps through Problem-Solution Matchmaking in the Nordic Region","Bodo Business Forum","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"976726375","Bodø ","Norway"]
["NPA0600147","Bridging Gaps through Problem-Solution Matchmaking in the Nordic Region","NCE Aquaculture","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"927324887","Bodoe","Norway"]
["NPA0600147","Bridging Gaps through Problem-Solution Matchmaking in the Nordic Region","Association of municipalities in North East Iceland","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"882469141 | 882469141 | PIC Number (EN)","Sími","Iceland"]
["NPA0600147","Bridging Gaps through Problem-Solution Matchmaking in the Nordic Region","Nord University","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"NO 970940243 MVA","Bodø","Norway"]
["NPA0600147","Bridging Gaps through Problem-Solution Matchmaking in the Nordic Region","Lapin ammattikorkeakoulu; Lapland University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI25287925","Rovaniemi","Finland","Rovaniemi","Finland"]
["NPA0500123","Adapting oats to final Frontier","Natural Resources Institute Finland","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations","934887262","FI02446292","Helsinki","Finland","Jyväskylä","Finland"]
["NPA0500123","Adapting oats to final Frontier","Lund University; Lund University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999901318","SE202100321101 ","Lund","Sweden","Lund","Sweden"]
["NPA0500123","Adapting oats to final Frontier","Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999754848","NO988983837MVA","Ås","Norway","Kapp","Norway"]
["NPA0500123","Adapting oats to final Frontier","Boreal Plant Breeding Ltd.","N","partner","Enterprise, except SME","951447878","FI15701192 ","Jokioinen","Finland"]
["NPA0500123","Adapting oats to final Frontier","University College Dublin","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999974359","IE.6517386K","Dublin","Ireland"]
["NPA0500123","Adapting oats to final Frontier","Teagasc – Agriculture and Food Development Authority","N","partner","Sectoral agency","999466952","0650202O ","XE12, Ireland","Ireland"]
["NPA0500123","Adapting oats to final Frontier","Lantmannen","N","partner","Enterprise, except SME","915236905","SE769605285601","Stockholm","Sweden","Svalöv","Sweden"]
["NPA0500123","Adapting oats to final Frontier","Graminor Ltd.","N","partner","Enterprise, except SME","968428019","NO967247359MVA","Ridabu ","Norway"]
["NPA0500123","Adapting oats to final Frontier","Norwegian University of Life Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999902967","NO969159570","Ås","Norway","Ås","Norway"]
["NPA0500123","Adapting oats to final Frontier","Agricultural University of Iceland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","988542036","Kt. 411204-3590","Borgarbyggð ","Iceland"]
["NPA0600157","Prepare. To. Gamify! Ecosystem Building","Savonia University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI26294633 | 743700SRZ3CURJXQHN36 | Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) (EN)","Kuopio","Finland"]
["NPA0600157","Prepare. To. Gamify! Ecosystem Building","REGION VÄSTERBOTTEN; Regionförbundet Västerbottens län","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"232100-0222","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0600157","Prepare. To. Gamify! Ecosystem Building","Mind Detonator AB","N","partner","SME",null,"SE559306844701 | 559306-8447","Jörn","Sweden"]
["NPA0600157","Prepare. To. Gamify! Ecosystem Building","Galway Film Resource Centre CLG t/a Ardán","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"None | 150633 | Company Registration Office number (EN)","Galway","Ireland"]
["NPA0400112","Printed hybrid electronics for sustainable intelligent applications.","Lulea University of Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100284101","Luleå","Sweden","Luleå","Sweden"]
["NPA0400112","Printed hybrid electronics for sustainable intelligent applications.","Oulu university of applied sciences; Oulun ammattikorkeakoulu","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI25097478","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0400112","Printed hybrid electronics for sustainable intelligent applications.","Luleå tekniska universitet, Hälsovetenskap; Luleå University of Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100284101","Luleå","Sweden","Luleå","Sweden"]
["NPA0800213","Regenerative Tourism in the Northern Periphery and Arctic for building resilient communities and preserving the unique heritage of the region","GeoCamp Iceland","N","partner","SME",null,"127629","Reykjanesbær","Iceland"]
["NPA0800213","Regenerative Tourism in the Northern Periphery and Arctic for building resilient communities and preserving the unique heritage of the region","Olemisen Balanssia ry","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"N.a.","Joensuu","Finland","Joensuu","Finland"]
["NPA0800213","Regenerative Tourism in the Northern Periphery and Arctic for building resilient communities and preserving the unique heritage of the region","Cuilcagh Lakelands UNESCO Global Geopark","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"N.a.","Blacklion","Ireland"]
["NPA0800213","Regenerative Tourism in the Northern Periphery and Arctic for building resilient communities and preserving the unique heritage of the region","Gold of Lappland economic association","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"SE799614497601","Norsjö","Sweden"]
["NPA0800213","Regenerative Tourism in the Northern Periphery and Arctic for building resilient communities and preserving the unique heritage of the region","Karelia University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI24543771","Joensuu","Finland"]
["NPA0800213","Regenerative Tourism in the Northern Periphery and Arctic for building resilient communities and preserving the unique heritage of the region","ProxyLab ry","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"N.a.","Joensuu","Finland","Joensuu","Finland"]
["NPA0800213","Regenerative Tourism in the Northern Periphery and Arctic for building resilient communities and preserving the unique heritage of the region","Visit Reykjanes","Y","lead","Other",null,"950235087","Reykjanesbær","Iceland"]
["NPA0800224","Regenerative Economic Transfers for Universal Resilience in the North","University of Akureyri; University of Akureyri","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"5206871229","Akureyri","Iceland","Akureyri","Iceland"]
["NPA0800224","Regenerative Economic Transfers for Universal Resilience in the North","Munster Technological University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE 3714786EH","Cork","Ireland"]
["NPA0800224","Regenerative Economic Transfers for Universal Resilience in the North","University of Greenland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"CVR nr.: 19785289","Nuussuaq","Greenland","Nuussuaq","Greenland"]
["NPA0800224","Regenerative Economic Transfers for Universal Resilience in the North","University of Lapland","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"0292800-5","Rovaniemi","Finland","Rovaniemi","Finland"]
["NPA0800224","Regenerative Economic Transfers for Universal Resilience in the North","Nalik Ventures","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"CVR nr.: 11813127","Nuussuaq","Greenland","Nuussuaq","Greenland"]
["NPA0800224","Regenerative Economic Transfers for Universal Resilience in the North","Mid Sweden University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100452401","Östersund","Sweden","Östersund","Sweden"]
["NPA0800224","Regenerative Economic Transfers for Universal Resilience in the North","University of the Faroe Islands","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"328944","Tórshavn","Faroe Islands","Tórshavn","Faroe Islands"]
["NPA0800224","Regenerative Economic Transfers for Universal Resilience in the North","Leave No Trace Ireland","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"PIC number 911307726","Westport, Co. Mayo","Ireland"]
["NPA0800211","Retrofitting for Improved Air Quality: promoting sustainable and healthy homes","University of Iceland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"19133","Reykjavik","Iceland","Reykjavik","Iceland"]
["NPA0800211","Retrofitting for Improved Air Quality: promoting sustainable and healthy homes","Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI22295006","Helsinki","Finland","Kuopio","Finland"]
["NPA0800211","Retrofitting for Improved Air Quality: promoting sustainable and healthy homes","University of Oulu; University of Oulu","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI02458955","Oulu","Finland","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0800211","Retrofitting for Improved Air Quality: promoting sustainable and healthy homes","University of Galway","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE0022578J","GALWAY","Ireland"]
["NPA0800211","Retrofitting for Improved Air Quality: promoting sustainable and healthy homes","Umeå University; University of Umeå","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100287401","Umeå","Sweden","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0800211","Retrofitting for Improved Air Quality: promoting sustainable and healthy homes","VERKVIST - Engineering consultant in healthy and sustainable buildings","N","partner","SME",null,"5509160960","Reykjavik","Iceland"]
["NPA0200057","Impact of energy retrofits on indoor environmental quality and hygrothermal performance of the buildings in different climate scenarios","University of Galway","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE0022578J","Galway","Ireland"]
["NPA0200057","Impact of energy retrofits on indoor environmental quality and hygrothermal performance of the buildings in different climate scenarios","University of Oulu; University of Oulu","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI02458955","Oulu","Finland","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0800206","Digital and Technological Social and Healthcare enhanced delivery in Remote areas","Lapin ammattikorkeakoulu; Lapland University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"2528792-5","Rovaniemi","Finland","Kemi","Finland","STOFNUN ÁRNA MAGNÚSSONAR, Forretta Barinn","700806-0490, 86012"]
["NPA0800206","Digital and Technological Social and Healthcare enhanced delivery in Remote areas","Karelia University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"24543771","Joensuu","Finland"]
["NPA0800206","Digital and Technological Social and Healthcare enhanced delivery in Remote areas","Atlantic Technological University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE0326731JH","Letterkenny","Ireland"]
["NPA0800206","Digital and Technological Social and Healthcare enhanced delivery in Remote areas","University of Iceland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IS019133","Reykjavik","Iceland","Reykjavik","Iceland"]
["NPA0600150","Digital and Technological Social and Healthcare Education in Remote areas - Challenges and Opportunities","Karelia University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI24543771","Joensuu","Finland"]
["NPA0600150","Digital and Technological Social and Healthcare Education in Remote areas - Challenges and Opportunities","Atlantic Technological University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE6539078V | 887857685 | PIC  (EN)","Letterkenny","Ireland"]
["NPA0600150","Digital and Technological Social and Healthcare Education in Remote areas - Challenges and Opportunities","Lapin ammattikorkeakoulu; Lapland University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"2528792-5","Rovaniemi","Finland","Kemi","Finland"]
["NPA0100011","Demonstrating New Generation Robotics and Smart Manufacturing to SMEs in the NPA Region","Luleå tekniska universitet, Hälsovetenskap; Luleå University of Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999876874","SE202100284101","Luleå","Sweden","Luleå","Sweden"]
["NPA0100011","Demonstrating New Generation Robotics and Smart Manufacturing to SMEs in the NPA Region","T2 Training for Skills","N","partner","Education/training centre and school",null,"SE559084852801","Skellefteå","Sweden","N/A","Sweden"]
["NPA0100011","Demonstrating New Generation Robotics and Smart Manufacturing to SMEs in the NPA Region","Advancing Innovation in Manufacturing, AIM Centre","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider","885903620","3728113CH","Sligo","Ireland","NA","Ireland"]
["NPA0100011","Demonstrating New Generation Robotics and Smart Manufacturing to SMEs in the NPA Region","Lulea University of Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999876874","SE202100284101","Luleå","Sweden","Luleå","Sweden"]
["NPA0100011","Demonstrating New Generation Robotics and Smart Manufacturing to SMEs in the NPA Region","Centria University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations","997172708","1097805-3","Kokkola","Finland","Kokkola","Finland"]
["NPA0100011","Demonstrating New Generation Robotics and Smart Manufacturing to SMEs in the NPA Region","UiT Norway's Arctic university","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999874643","970 422 528","Tromsoe","Norway","Narvik","Norway"]
["NPA0300105","Sustainable Arctic and Peripheral Biking Tourism","Visit Torshavn","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"352675","Torshavn","Faroe Islands"]
["NPA0300105","Sustainable Arctic and Peripheral Biking Tourism","Donegal County Council","N","partner","Local public authority","950634630","N.a.","Lifford","Ireland",null,null,"Egan Innovations - Grace Egan","77825250"]
["NPA0300105","Sustainable Arctic and Peripheral Biking Tourism","The Local Federation of East Lapland","Y","lead","Local public authority","889805542","FI10446516","Kemijärvi","Finland",null,null,"Janne Jakola , Exove Design Ltd","FI28832431, FI23847769"]
["NPA0300105","Sustainable Arctic and Peripheral Biking Tourism","Federation of Regional Authorities NW Iceland","N","partner","Local public authority","888801689","N.a.","Hvammstangi","Iceland","Sauðárkrókur","Iceland"]
["NPA0300105","Sustainable Arctic and Peripheral Biking Tourism","Natural Resources Institute Finland","N","partner","National public authority","934887262","FI02446292","Rovaniemi","Finland"]
["NPA0300105","Sustainable Arctic and Peripheral Biking Tourism","Jämtland Härjedalen Tourism","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider",null,"SE769600768601","Östersund","Sweden"]
["NPA0300105","Sustainable Arctic and Peripheral Biking Tourism","Itä-Lapin kuntayhtymä; Itä-Lapin Kuntayhtymä","Y","lead","Local public authority","889805542","FI10446516","Kemijärvi","Finland",null,null,"Exove Design Ltd","FI23847769"]
["NPA0700184","Self Management of Health and Wellbeing in Rural Areas","Iceland Health and Welfare Technology Cluster","N","partner","Other",null,"531119-0100","Husavik","Iceland","Akureyri","Iceland"]
["NPA0700184","Self Management of Health and Wellbeing in Rural Areas","University of Limerick","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE6609370G","Castletroy","Ireland"]
["NPA0700184","Self Management of Health and Wellbeing in Rural Areas","REGION VÄSTERBOTTEN; Regionförbundet Västerbottens län","Y","lead","Regional public authority","996375659","SE232100022201","Umeå","Sweden","Storuman","Sweden"]
["NPA0400115","Self-management of health and wellbeing in rural areas","Iceland Health and Welfare Technology Cluster","N","partner","Other",null,"531119-0100","Husavik","Iceland","Akureyri","Iceland"]
["NPA0400115","Self-management of health and wellbeing in rural areas","REGION VÄSTERBOTTEN; Regionförbundet Västerbottens län","Y","lead","Regional public authority",null,"SE232100022201","Umeå","Sweden","Storuman","Sweden"]
["NPA0400115","Self-management of health and wellbeing in rural areas","University of Limerick","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE6609370G","Castleroy","Ireland",null,"Ireland"]
["NPA0400115","Self-management of health and wellbeing in rural areas","Department of Occupational Medicine and Public Health in the Faroese Hospital System","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"432407","Tórshavn","Faroe Islands","Tórshavn","Faroe Islands"]
["NPA0800241","Sustainability reporting enhancing SMEs' market reach, competitiveness, and sustainable growth","Jamk University of Applied Sciences; Jyväskylän ammattikorkeakoulu; JAMK University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI10065502","Jyväskylä","Finland","Jyväskylä","Finland","Juvenes OY, Mattilanniemen Hotelli Alba","0155602-7, FI09644638"]
["NPA0800241","Sustainability reporting enhancing SMEs' market reach, competitiveness, and sustainable growth","Sligo Leitrim ITS Regional Development Projects DAC, operating as the AIM Centre","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider",null,"3728113CH","Sligo","Ireland"]
["NPA0800241","Sustainability reporting enhancing SMEs' market reach, competitiveness, and sustainable growth","Irish Wood and Interiors Network CLG","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"N.a.","Scotstown","Ireland"]
["NPA0800241","Sustainability reporting enhancing SMEs' market reach, competitiveness, and sustainable growth","University of Iceland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"19133 ","Reykjavik","Iceland"]
["NPA0800241","Sustainability reporting enhancing SMEs' market reach, competitiveness, and sustainable growth","BioFuel Region BFR AB","N","partner","Sectoral agency",null,"SE556664159201","Umeå","Sweden"]
["NPA0400109","Textile and Habiliment Reuse for the Environment and NPA Area Development","REMIKS MILJØPARK AS","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider",null,"894462132","Tromsø","Norway"]
["NPA0400109","Textile and Habiliment Reuse for the Environment and NPA Area Development","Western Development Commission","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"9588395N","Roscommon ","Ireland"]
["NPA0400109","Textile and Habiliment Reuse for the Environment and NPA Area Development","Kajaani University of Applied Sciences; Kajaanin ammattikorkeakoulu","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI25536004 ","Kajaani","Finland"]
["NPA0700174","Textile and Habiliment Reuse for the Environment and NPA Area Development","Kiertokaari Ltd","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider","920557355","FI26506624","Oulu","Finland","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0700174","Textile and Habiliment Reuse for the Environment and NPA Area Development","Kajaani University of Applied Sciences; Kajaanin ammattikorkeakoulu","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations","949621465","FI25536004 ","Kajaani","Finland"]
["NPA0700174","Textile and Habiliment Reuse for the Environment and NPA Area Development","Western Development Commission","N","partner","Regional public authority","953493414","IE9588395N","Ballaghaderreen","Ireland",null,"Ireland"]
["NPA0700174","Textile and Habiliment Reuse for the Environment and NPA Area Development","University of Borås","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999887447","SE202100313801","Borås","Sweden","Borås","Sweden"]
["NPA0700174","Textile and Habiliment Reuse for the Environment and NPA Area Development","Technological University of the Shannon","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","889135563","3793434QH","Limerick","Ireland"]
["NPA0700174","Textile and Habiliment Reuse for the Environment and NPA Area Development","Icelandic Textile Center","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs","927695488","460712-0410","Blönduós","Iceland"]
["NPA0700174","Textile and Habiliment Reuse for the Environment and NPA Area Development","Lumire","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"Org nr: 556019-0331","Luleå","Sweden",null,"Sweden"]
["NPA0700174","Textile and Habiliment Reuse for the Environment and NPA Area Development","Remiks Husholdning AS","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider",null,"994900579","Tromsø","Norway"]
["NPA0700174","Textile and Habiliment Reuse for the Environment and NPA Area Development","The municipality of Kittilä","N","partner","Local public authority","942636980","FI01914066","Kittilä","Finland","Kittilä","Finland"]
["NPA0100009","Target Circular - Supporting Sustainable SMEs\nto Success","Kokkolanseudun Kehitys Ltd","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"1798904-6","Kokkola","Finland"]
["NPA0100009","Target Circular - Supporting Sustainable SMEs\nto Success","Norinnova","N","partner","Business support organisation","881476831","957 915 035","Tromsø","Norway","Tromsø","Norway"]
["NPA0100009","Target Circular - Supporting Sustainable SMEs\nto Success","Federation of Regional Authorities NW Iceland","N","partner","Local public authority","888801689","49526","Hvammstangi","Iceland","Hvammstangi","Iceland"]
["NPA0100009","Target Circular - Supporting Sustainable SMEs\nto Success","Ludgate Operations CLG","N","partner","Business support organisation","917145768","3367757OH","Skibbereen","Ireland","Skibbereen","Ireland"]
["NPA0100009","Target Circular - Supporting Sustainable SMEs\nto Success","Centria University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","997172708","FI10978053","Kokkola","Finland","Kokkola","Finland"]
["NPA0100009","Target Circular - Supporting Sustainable SMEs\nto Success","Munster Technological University","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations","892106673","IE 3714786EH","Cork","Ireland","Cork","Ireland"]
["NPA0700166","Connected Technology to support the Health of the Working Population in Northern Remote Areas","University of Oulu; University of Oulu","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations","999844670","FI02458955","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0700166","Connected Technology to support the Health of the Working Population in Northern Remote Areas","REGION VÄSTERBOTTEN; Regionförbundet Västerbottens län","N","partner","Regional public authority","996375659","SE232100022201","Umeå","Sweden","Storuman","Sweden"]
["NPA0700166","Connected Technology to support the Health of the Working Population in Northern Remote Areas","Työterveyslaitos; Finnish Institute of Occupational Health","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI02202669","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0700166","Connected Technology to support the Health of the Working Population in Northern Remote Areas","Atlantic Technological University","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations","887857685","IE0326731JH","Letterkenny","Ireland"]
["NPA0700166","Connected Technology to support the Health of the Working Population in Northern Remote Areas","UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY,","N","partner","Hospitals and medical centres","991888051","NO983974899MVA","Tromsø","Norway"]
["NPA0400119","Connected Technology to support the Health of the Working Population in Northern Remote Areas","University of Oulu; University of Oulu","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI02458955","Oulu","Finland"]
["NPA0400119","Connected Technology to support the Health of the Working Population in Northern Remote Areas","Atlantic Technological University","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"IE6539078V","Letterkenny","Ireland"]