Cleantech Kvarken is a joint venture involving companies in West Finland and East Sweden supported by the EU funded INTERRG programme. They have created a trans-nordic cluster and are now looking to reach out even more internationally. With this is mind a catalogue setting out what each of the companies in the cluster do and what they can offer is being launched at All Energy Exhibition in Glasgow on 4th May. Scotland has been chosen for the wider international launch of the catalogue because of Scotland’s strong tradition of innovation.
The “Cleantech Kvarken” project aims at strengthening the preconditions for SMEs in the clean-tech sector to do business on the regional, national and international markets by cross-border cooperation and joint export initiatives. This is done by through Finnish-Swedish co-operation between cities, municipalities and publicly owned companies, increasing the co-operation between the cleantech companies in the Kvarken region, executing joint export initiatives to markets both inside and outside the Nordic countries as well as attracting investments and establishment of new companies to the regions.
