Leading companies´ ecosystems solve significant challenges for Finland through cooperation

The goal of H2 Springboard is to generate maximum economic value-add for Finland from the most favorably growing sector — hydrogen economy — of which economic potential for Finland is estimated to be €34 billion annually by 2035, according to the strategy published by the Hydrogen Cluster Finland.

Compute to Impact: Finland as a World-Leading AI Hub transforms Finland into a premier location for AI development by creating an integrated ecosystem that connects high-performance computing infrastructure, industry expertise, and research excellence. Led by AMD Silo AI, the project coordinates over €100 million in R&D investments to build advanced AI capabilities. The partners also aim to organize novel collaboration practices with CSC for the use of computing resources through the LUMI supercomputer.

The project tackles a critical challenge: while Europe has world-class AI research, converting this into commercial success requires massive computing infrastructure and deep technical expertise typically available only to the largest global companies. By combining AMD's computing platforms with Silo AI's model development expertise, we enable companies to develop and scale advanced AI solutions efficiently. The project emphasizes energy-efficient AI development, aiming to reduce computation energy consumption by 50% compared to current standards.

ANDRITZ Oy’s, the global and Finnish leader in biorefining technology, Veturi program’s mission is to build a more resource-efficient forest industry that increases the value of biomass without harvesting more trees.

BioCircleToZero answers the global challenge of deforestation, which has led to forests becoming a limited resource. Forests’ biodiversity must be secured to ensure access to biomass. At the same time, pulp mills emit around 200 mt of biogenic CO2 into the atmosphere every year globally. This demonstrates an opportunity to improve the environmental performance of pulp and biorefining industries. By improving carbon efficiency of biorefineries, lost carbon can be converted to valuable bioproducts. Moreover, biomass already makes up 55% of renewable energy consumed. These biomass inputs should be sustainably harnessed into higher-value, sustainable products such as renewable fuels.

Seamless and Secure End-to-End Connectivity requires in current, 5G and 5G beyond networks (e.g. 6G) E2E interoperability with various public and private networks as well as within the all the terminals and devices connected to the networks together with simultaneously interoperable secure technological solutions. Within the medical vertical the need for secure End to End diagnostics solutions is expected to grow rapidly and thus the European and Finnish providers are required to develop entities connecting devices, analysing capabilities and remote diagnostics solutions until life-cycle services. The similar principles are applicable also other mission critical industries.

Plastics are irreplaceable materials, which secure clean water, safe and effective food chain, healthcare, and electrification. The demand of plastics is growing, but the current production and use of plastics is not sustainable.

The key global challenges of plastics are fossil raw materials, high CO2 emissions from production and end-of-life incineration while the plastics recycling rates are still very low. Innovations are required to solve these challenges. Borealis Polymers Oy, as a forerunner, aims to make the Finnish plastics industry sustainable. 

Canatu Finland Oy aims to establish Finland as a global leader in the era of carbon-based nanotechnology, which is set to succeed the silicon-dominated semiconductor industry. The growth of the global semiconductor market, projected to exceed $1 trillion by 2030, faces challenges due to the physical limitations of the legacy materials. This is evident in the public roadmaps and research initiatives of leading global semiconductor companies.

Our vision is that tomorrow’s transportation will be intelligent, sustainable, and effective because of new fossil free solutions. To make this happen we will create an Intelligent Power Electronics Ecosystem. Our ecosystem will drive intelligent, sustainable, and cost-effective use of energy, which will strengthen the Ecosystem’s competitive advantage in the global market. Danfoss aims to establish Intelligent Power Electronics Ecosystem through its business units of Drives and Editron.

Kalmar’s Move2Green program aims to solve the heavy logistics industry’s sustainability challenges and contribute significantly to Finland’s green and digital transition. Currently, the usage phase (scope 3) of the heavy logistics equipment lifecycle creates the largest portion of CO2 emissions. The program vision is to achieve net zero emission logistics chains by 2045. Together with our ecosystem partners, we are committed to making considerable investments in RDI to combat climate change and help future-proof critical logistics systems in Finland and globally.

The goal of the Heavy(duty) Electric Traffic Ecosystem-program, later HETE, is to develop charging technology suitable for truck traffic and the software platform that supports it, to develop a testing platform for charging infrastructure, and to study future charging models and effects of charging infrastruct on electric grids.

The electrification of trucks is only just starting. The market is still missing scalable charging infrastructure for heavy traffic, such as electric trucks. Since growth in the number of electric trucks requires a complete charging infrastructure that meets practical needs, the development of the ecosystem is essential.

The Renaissance program, a five-year Leading company initiative is aimed at transforming urban renewal through digital and sustainable retrofit solutions. The program, co-funded by Business Finland, will focus on reviving existing buildings for low emission living and working by 2030. It will create a digital and sustainable ecosystem hub, bringing together key industry stakeholders to drive new innovations and business models.

The productivity of the Finnish manufacturing industry has stagnated for 15 years, and new innovations are needed. The Zero4 ecosystem, led by Konecranes, aims to eliminate four key problems: information breakdowns, greenhouse gas emissions, waste energy, and occupational accidents. The aim is to increase the competitiveness of Finnish companies and make Finland a technological pioneer in material flow solutions and a significant exporter of data-based applications and services.