”A business creating network for sustainable solutions”

Ann-Christin Bayard

Kalmar County234 000 inhabitants 12 000 2 000 lakes 16 000 islands 5 500 km coastline 20 000 companies 700 exporting companies

Wood industryManufacturingTourismAgricultureForestryEnvironmental technology

“Our striving is the vision of the sustainable society”

The political guidelines of the city of Kalmar

To create • a long term sustainable refurbishment with greatest possible adaptation to the environment • and the closed loop cycle at the same cost as a normal refurbishment • in close co-operation with the tenants.

“ “Inspektoren”Inspektoren” EU funding FP5 - City of TomorrowEU funding FP5 - City of Tomorrow

PUBLIC SECTOR MUNICIPALITIES

KARLSKRONA

TORSÅS

EMMABODA

NYBRO

KALMAR

MÖRBYLÅNGA

BORGHOLM

MÖNSTERÅS

OSKARSHAMN

VIMMERBY

UNIVERSITIES

LINNEAUS UNIVERSITY

BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

BEIJING KALININGRAD SULECHOW KAUNAS GDANSK

POLITICAL PUBLIC SECTOR

Regional County Council Kalmar

Arkitektstudio ROLF MÖLLER AB

COMPANIES

BUSINESS AREAS specialists, management, project leading, planning,

development, innovation, production, research

water management and waste water treatment

sustainable building and urban planning

waste management and recycling

renewable energy

environmentalmanagement

industrial environmental technology

INDUSTRY • UNIVERSITY • SOCIETY in COOPERATION

Tailor-made Solutions, Business Concepts & Cooperations

• Network & Cooperations• System Solutions• Feasibility Studies &

Projects• Business Support &

Activities • R&D• Knowledge Transfer • Training & Education • Exchange of Experiences• Matchmaking• Exhibitions & trade fairs• Technical visits

SSSE - an International Partner • South Africa• Poland• Baltic Countries• Russia• Turkey• Germany• France• China• USA• Finland• Algeria• …

WHY PROJECTS

• Sustainability in the society – Baltic Sea Region• Relations to the public actors in the region• Contacts through ”available” projects• A part of a cluster process

– Networking– New ideas and input to the cluster– Learn about: cultures, management, business

methods, problems, possibilities and solutions– Intermedier role: triple helix, cooperation between

companies, motivation to new markets, …

VISION FROM THE BEGINNING

Business creating network

for sustainable solutions

in the Baltic Sea Region

INNOVATIONS

• POLAND as a MARKET

• WOD KAN TRADE FAIR in Poland

• JOCCOW

• FLEXIFUEL

• STInno

FLEXIFUEL a triple helix co-operation

Building of a full scale test and demonstration plant for combined heating systems containing solar collectors, pellet boilers, heat pumps and heat stores

Evaluation of system performance for some combined heating systems with varying control strategies through measurement

Development of a user-friendly data soft ware tool for evaluating system performance of combi-heating systems studied.

FLEXIFUEL a triple helix cooperation

JOCCOW – transnational Triple helixBuilding an artificial wetland pilot plant for treatment of leachate from Kaliningrad landfill.

Capacity building in a waste management cluster.A feasibility study had also showed the possibilities to utilize the landfill gas to finance a full scale plant and reduce the environmental impact

• Mapping of technologies for industrial waste water treatment• Transfer of sustainable technologies to olive mill waste water treatment• Experience and knowledge exchange between research and business• North-South bound cluster cooperation

TRANSNATIONAL TRIPLE HELIX

Kaliningrad SIDA – Swedish International Development Agency

Knowledge transfer within

waste water treatment between

Kaliningrad and Southeast Sweden

RespEn – Responsible Entrepreneurship

• Providing information and knowledge about Corporate Social Responsibility in order to raise the competitivness and fascilitate establishing business cooperations by micro and SME companies in the South Baltic region

PARTNERS & FINANCINGStarter/initiater

Kalmar Municipality

Companies

Regional Council

International Cluster

International public org

FinancingSIDA Swedish International Development Agency

Energimyndigheten Swedish Energy Agency

Regional Council Kalmar

Tillväxtverket Swedish Agency for Economical Growth

EU: FP5, Interreg IV, FP7, South Baltic, ICLD

Private Financing

LESSONS LEARNED• CULTURES: local, regional,

national, international• Development of triple helix

national & international• R&D: motivation, development• Network & Contacts• New inputs, ideas & possibilities• Systems: organizations &

business• Cluster strategy• New structures in the cluster• New competences in the cluster

• LEADERSHIP

• Financing competence

Project administration• Be integrated in the project

writing• Budget in projects – more

money for activities

• ”Last minute” partner search

LONG TERM STRATEGY = SUCCESS!

FUTUREContinue with EU-projects

• business oriented

• more companies involved in R&D-projects

• cooperations between companies

• solution for resources specialized in fundings, administration, …

• …

SUSTAINABILITY

»The overall aim »The overall aim is to hand over to is to hand over to the next generation the next generation a societya societyin which the majorin which the majorenvironmental environmental problemsproblemshave been solved.«have been solved.«

CONTACT

Gröndalsvägen 19 B • SE-392 36 Kalmar • Sweden

phone + 46 (0)480 49 15 25 • Fax + 46 (0)480 49 15 27

www.sustainable-sweden.se

e-mail: info@sustainable-sweden.se