Are you looking for business growth, or do you have development needs or an innovative idea?

We offer you information, guidance and comprehensive networks to support your business for analysing your funding needs and sourcing the suitable public funding providers. Our group of experts will further your development idea further and propose how to finance it through public EU funding. European cooperation projects can be used to finance, for example, product development, research, piloting, and commercialisation. 

Included in our service free of charge are:

New business from side streams

FISS South Karelia industrial symbiosis service improves the profitability of business operations in the South Karelia region by enhancing the companies’ use of materials and energy. The service contributes to the generation of new business by increasing knowledge of the quantities and qualities of waste and by-product flows generated by companies. Another goal is to increase cooperation between SMEs and research organisations to strengthen business operations in the region and to facilitate the permit procedures related to industrial symbioses.

SMEs, apply for funding for your cleantech solutions NOW!

Send a funding application to Tekes. Under certain conditions, Tekes will pay 50% of your project costs. Act quickly, the application deadline for funding of spearhead projects in 2016 is coming soon. Applications must be recieved by 18 November 2016.

What is the funding for?

Examples: 

Growth from China to South Karelia

The city of Lappeenranta started cooperation with the Chinese city of Yixing, this year. Yixing is situated in the affluent Jiangsu province, approximately two hour’s drive from Shanghai. A city of 1.35 million residents, Yixing is known as an advanced environmental technology city.

Doing business in India lecture

Mr A K Sharma, Ambassador of India in Finland, Doing business in India. A lecture on the opportunities for Finnish companies in India, a country of 1.2 billion inhabitants. The lecture is organised as part of the ambassador’s visit to Lappeenranta.

Time: 5 October 13.00–14.00

Place: Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), lecture hall 2209 

The event is open to the public.

Welcome!

The project 'Towards carbon neutral South Karelia' has been launched

The city of Lappeenranta has launched the project ”Towards a carbon neutral South Karelia”. The project will be implemented by the Lappeenranta Region Environmental Office and Wirma Lappeenranta. The project work will be very hands on, comprising a wide range of actions aimed at the common goal of promoting a transition towards carbon-neutrality in South Karelia. Extending to the end of 2017, the project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund, the city of Lappeenranta and Wirma Lappeenranta.

Roof-top installation of solar power systems facilitated in Lappeenranta
 

On 29 August 2016, the City Council of Lappeenranta adopted a change to the building code, which states that no permit or notification is required when solar panels and collectors are installed on the angle of the roof. This applies to detached houses and blocks of flats. The building code change enters into force on 15 September 2016. 

The opportunities for nutrient recycling in South Karelia theme to be continued soon

A Green Energy Showroom theme event on the opportunities for nutrient recycling in South Karelia was held on Monday the 29th of August 2016 at the Kehruuhuone in the Fortress in Lappeenranta. Nutrient recycling is a topical subject in South Karelia, at this time, when decisions are being made, on which solution to choose for the treatment of municipal sludge.

GES network event at LOAS (Lappeenranta Region Student Housing Foundation)
 

Time:               21 September 2016 12.30–16.00

Place:          LOAS, Laserkatu 1, 53850 Lappeenranta

GES network event programme

12.30 Opening of the event, Markku Mäki-Hokkonen, Wirma

12.35 A word from the event’s organiser, Joonas Grönlund and Paavo Leinonen, LOAS

13:00 Future priorities of GES activities, Jorma Laukkanen

Opportunities for nutrient recycling in South Karelia

Nutrient recycling is a topical subject in South Karelia at the moment when decisions are being made on which solution to choose for the treatment of municipal sludge. New innovations emerge all the time, but more operators, open-minded partnerships and, above all, cooperation, is needed in South Karelia to make the recycling of nutrients more effective. On the 29the of August, welcome to Kehruuhuone to a Green Energy Showroom theme event to share ideas and join the discussion!