Join the Ecosystem

Why would you join the Ecosystem?

The ExpandFibre Ecosystem is an opportunity for:

  • Finding innovation and collaboration partners

  • Finding new business opportunities

  • Cross-discipline and end-to-end value chain cooperation

  • Better insights and connections to project preparation initiatives between companies, and between companies and research institutes 

  • Sharing thoughts and ideas with those who share the same vision for a sustainable future

  • Being a part of a large-scale go-to-market vehicle.

For Finnish organisations, the ExpandFibre Ecosystem also offers a connection to Business Finland’s funding scheme for leading companies (“Veturi” funding) and related ecosystems.  

 For non-Finnish parties, the ExpandFibre Ecosystem also enables: 

  • Networking and collaborating with the Finnish innovation value chains 
  • Gaining overall visibility of and to the Finnish R&D landscape. 

ExpandFibre Programme Managers

Fortum
Risto Sormunen, Head of Bio2X Project Development at Fortum Power & Heat Oy
risto.sormunen@fortum.com
+358 (0)50 453 4615

Metsä Group
Katariina Kemppainen, SVP, Group R&D, Metsä Spring
katariina.kemppainen@metsagroup.com
+358 (0)50 375 2212

Here's how to join

Please fill in the contact form on this site or send email to Programme Managers to introduce your organization and/or project. We will contact you by email and ask you to fill in an online form about your organization or project. We may request further information by email or arrange a joint meeting.

ExpandFibre will make a formal decision about accepting your organization or project into the Ecosystem. The decision will be informed to you by email. Criteria for member selection include alignment with ExpandFibre vision, as well as relevant competence, resources and networks.

By joining the Ecosystem, a project or an organization accepts that their logo can be used in the ExpandFibre communications and that the email address of the contact person will be added to the ExpandFibre Ecosystem mailing list.

Who can join the Ecosystem?

You can apply to join the Ecosystem as an organization or if you represent an R&D project or a project proposal.