Competition to award climate change solutions
Have you got a practical solution to climate change that can also benefit municipalities? Your solution can be a new or as yet unestablished practice, business concept or technology for slowing the effects of climate change.
Enter your solution into our international competition that will award the winners with publicity, customer contacts, and assistance in marketing. Competition entries should be submitted by 30 September 2010 at www.solutions2011.fi/contest.
We are now searching for new or as yet unestablished business concepts, practices and technologies to assist municipalities and other local and regional actors to better control the effects of climate change.
Does your organisation have a solution that would
- combat climate change,
- support local and regional economics, employment and general well-being,
- lead to concrete changes in the practices of the municipalities and their residents, and
- can be broadly implemented as a successful measure?
We invite you to take part in this competition whose winners will be awarded in connection with the “Solutions local, together” conference scheduled to be held in Turku from 31 January to 2 February 2011.
The competition is targeted at different organisations, companies and municipalities, which have developed practical and functional solutions aimed at slowing the effects of climate change. The objective is to bring together solution providers and new customers within the Baltic Sea region and Nordic countries.
The competition winners will gain publicity, customer contacts, and concrete expert assistance in the marketing of their own solutions.
Competition entries should be submitted by 30 September 2010 by completing the form available online at www.solutions2011.fi/contest in English, Finnish or Swedish. The website also contains detailed competition guidelines, rules and criteria.
The competition is organised by the national local government associations of Finland, Sweden and Norway and the Nordic Council of Ministers. The partners of the competition are Sitra (the Finnish Innovation Fund), Tekes (the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation), Motiva (Specialist in Energy and Material Efficiency), NEFCO (Nordic Environment Finance Corporation), NIB (Nordic Investment Bank), NICe (Nordic Innovation Centre), the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy, the Finnish Ministry of the Environment and the Association of Estonian Cities.
Take part and let others know about your solution for combating climate change!
Further information:
Jonas Rorarius, Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities, tel. +358 9 771 2368, jonas.rorarius@kuntaliitto.fi
Maija Hakanen, Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities, tel. +358 9 771 2106, maija.hakanen@kuntaliitto.fi