This high-level visit offers companies the opportunity to explore one of the Gulf region’s most dynamic and investment-driven industrial markets.

Join us on 24 November 2025 for Nordic Pitch Day 2025 at Zealand University Hospital.

Join us for an exciting matchmaking event designed to bring together organizations from Finland, Canada, Sweden, and Germany interested in collaborating on Horizon Europe Cluster 4 calls for 2026. This is a unique opportunity to explore partnerships and develop proposals focused on mining, minerals, and the circular economy.

The President of the Republic has granted the annual internationalisation awards to three companies and one community. Orion Corporation won the 2025 Growth Company Award. The Newcomer Company Award went to Sensofusion, and Sandvik Mining and Construction was recognised as the Long-term International Investor. The year’s Community Award was granted to the Finnish Startup Community.

Business Finland has granted an investment grant for the Novana Oy´s project to build the world's first carbon-neutral vanadium production plant in Tahkoluoto, Pori. As part of the government's industrial policy measures, Business Finland is accelerating industrial investments industrial aligned with the clean transition. Investment grants totaling €311 million has been awarded in 2025. The processing of tax credit applications is currently underway, with the total amount of applied credits just under €3 billion.

The United States is the largest and most popular export target for the health technology sector, says Tarja Enala from Business Finland. Although US policy is in a state of flux, cooperation with big players such as the Mayo Clinic, which has been chosen as the best hospital in the world, is seen as worth pursuing.

Business Finland has received a large number of applications for research and development funding. The high demand may slow down some R&D funding decisions at the end of the year.

The European Partnership for a sustainable Future of Food Systems (FutureFoodS) pre-announces the 2nd co-funded call for transnational research projects (pre-announcement). The opening of the call is expected in the second half of November 2025 and the dead line for pre-proposal submission will probably be in the end of January 2026. Details presented in this document may be subject to change before the opening of the call.

Business Finland’s new Perspectives for Innovation and Growth -series inspires companies to think about their growth strategies in light of long-term global developments. The series includes Snapshots of global trends that can shape or create future market opportunities, driving the need for sustainable renewal and innovation.