”A business creating network for sustainable solutions” Ann-Christin Bayard

1. ”A business creating network for sustainable solutions” Ann-Christin Bayard

2. Kalmar County 234 000 inhabitants 12 000 2 000 lakes 16 000 islands 5 500 km coastline 20 000 companies 700 exporting companies Wood industry Manufacturing Tourism Agriculture Forestry Environmental technology

3. “Our striving is the vision of the sustainable society” The political guidelines of the city of Kalmar

4. 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”EU funding FP5 - City of Tomorrow

5. 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

6. COMPANIES Arkitektstudio ROLF MÖLLER AB

7. water management and waste water treatment renewable energy sustainable building and urban planning environmental management waste management and recycling BUSINESS AREAS specialists, management, project leading, planning, development, innovation, production, research industrial environmental technology

8. 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 … INDUSTRY • UNIVERSITY • SOCIETY in COOPERATIONTailor-made Solutions, Business Concepts & Cooperations

9. 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, … WHY PROJECTS

10. Business creating network for sustainable solutions in the Baltic Sea Region VISION FROM THE BEGINNING

11. POLAND as a MARKET WOD KAN TRADE FAIR in Poland JOCCOW FLEXIFUEL STInno INNOVATIONS

12. FLEXIFUEL a triple helix co-operation

13. FLEXIFUELa triple helix cooperation 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.

14. JOCCOW – transnational Triple helix Building 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

15. TRANSNATIONAL TRIPLE HELIX • 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

16. Kaliningrad SIDA – Swedish International Development Agency Knowledge transfer within waste water treatment between Kaliningrad and Southeast Sweden

17. 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 RespEn –Responsible Entrepreneurship

18. Starter/initiater Kalmar Municipality Companies Regional Council International Cluster International public org Financing SIDA 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 PARTNERS & FINANCING

19. 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 LESSONS LEARNED LONG TERM STRATEGY = SUCCESS!

20. Continue with EU-projects business oriented more companies involved in R&D-projects cooperations between companies solution for resources specialized in fundings, administration, … … FUTURE

21. SUSTAINABILITY »The overall aim is to hand over to the next generation a societyin which the majorenvironmental problemshave been solved.«

22. 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