Promoting Cross-Border Wood Construction Business

Programme 2014 - 2020 Karelia ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2022-02-19

Description

Description (EN): Strengthening the business opportunities, markets and expertise in wood construction businesses across the border applying both B2B and U2B approaches bridging the key players together to work for the shared goal.

Achievements (EN):

PROWO project conducted a thorough survey in the three cross-border regions including North Karelia, Petrozavodsk (Russian Karelia) and Saint Petersburg area. Each of the surveys was led by the university from the region involving local businesses. Organisations who were selected for the interviews were already established a cross-border cooperation or were considered as a potential business in this context. The group of interviewed organisations presented the different actors in the field of wood construction: from the raw material suppliers to contractors of the construction projects. Results of the interviews were analysed in order to recognise the most crucial bottlenecks and which are hindering the development related to cross-border cooperation from Finnish-Russian perspective. According interview results it is obvious that there is lack of knowledge in many fields in both side of border. The knowledge of markets in Finland or Russia, the building regulations, the design codes, the market channels, the market information, customer preferences and key players in markets are good examples of areas where more information is needed. The projects also tried to figure out the potential solutions to tackle those emerged bottlenecks especially from the university point of view but also from the business perspective. To help companies or other operators in markets it would be important to establish broad training program for all interested partners. This kind of program should be run in Finland and in Russia at the same time and also there should be possibility to combine to this visit in interested targets.

Website: http://www.kareliacbc.fi/en

Expected Results (EN):

The overall objective for the PROWO was to strengthen the business opportunities, markets and expertise in wood construction businesses across the border. Project aimed at three goals: identifying and analysing in details the bottle-necks hindering the growth and full use of the potential of the wood construction business, building the network of key players to boost the business, and building common understanding on how to solve the problems. PROWO results will form the base for the for-coming development projects and activities. It also preliminarily starts to explore the possibilities for new business models, incubators and innovations yet these will be the key questions to solve in the future.

Expected Outputs (EN): 1. Analys of the bottlenecks hindering the development (49% total workload). 2. Building the network of key players to boost the business. 3. A plan for future development (regular) project.

Thematic information

Clustering and economic cooperation Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Thematic Objective: Business and SME development

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: Karelia-ammattikorkeakoulu

Department: Department of construction

Address: Tikkarinne 9, 80200 Joensuu, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.karelia.fi

Total budget: EUR 50 000.00

ENI budget: EUR 26 046.00

Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University

Name: Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University

Department: International Centre of Forestry and Forest Industry

Address: Institutskii per.5, 194021 St.Petersburg, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.spbftu.ru

Petrozavodsk State University

Name: Petrozavodsk State University

Department: Department of construction Technology and Management

Address: Lenin str.33, 185910 Petrozavodsk, Russia

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.ptersu.ru

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Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University

Promoting Cross-Border Wood Construction Business

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Petrozavodsk State University

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Karelia University of Applied Sciences

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Summary

Project name (EN): Promoting Cross-Border Wood Construction Business

Project name (RU): Микропроект "Продвижение приграничного бизнеса по строительству из дерева"

Project acronym: Micro-PROWO

Project start date: 2018-10-01

Project end date: 2019-09-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 50 000.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 26 046.00

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 52.09%

Co-financing sources:

ENPI/ENI/NDICI: Amount, EUR 26 046.00.

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 Karelia ENI CBC

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2021-07-01

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

61 / 61 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

280 / 280 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Partner budgets are not available in this programme, the Lead partners in Karelia CBC programme get all the funding. Fields project name (from 5 projects) translated from Russian into English using the European Commission's eTranslation machine translation service.

The projects which fields include an eTranslation English text are the ones with the following acronyms: BIOKARELIA, CULTA, Kalitka, Kantele-GO! and Urban Parks & Benefits.

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