Description

The grants under the Bioregions Open Innovation Challenge 2022 aim to support targeted activities to convert business innovation, social innovation, product innovation, or process innovation ideas (from now on called “solutions”) into reality.

Targeted Activities include:
– Networking, pitching, and presentation
– Prototyping and piloting activities
– Adaptation of solutions to regional reality
– Training, mentoring, and capacity building
– Travel, logistic and consumable costs related to the above

The funding under the grant is provided by the European Forest Institute (EFI) Bioregions Facility, which aims to catalyse innovation and entrepreneurship in forest bioeconomy in its member regions: Basque Country, North Karelia, North Rhine-Westphalia and Catalonia. Thus, granted solutions must solve, totally or partially, specific challenges, defined by Bioregions members.

For the Bioregions Open Innovation Challenge 2022, the challenges are:
• Carbon Farming & Climate-Smart Forestry
• Forest Monitoring, Early Warning and Response
• Unleashing the potential of Non-Wood Forest Products