Biobord is an online platform for bioeconomy developers. Biobord welcomes all who are interested in networking, finding people with shared interests, and sharing knowledge and ideas on the development of sustainable bioeconomy business.
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Biobord platform is a home for the Biobord network that connects regions specialized in bioeconomy across the Baltic Sea. Explore our partnership from the Network map – and study the innovation services offered by our partners from the Services catalogue.
The heart of our joint activities is the Forum where our partners work together with each other and their extended networks. Forum offers open discussion areas for regional and international networking as well as closed areas for Biobord Network and project-based groups.
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Second joint agenda of the Biobord network is now out! The second agenda, improving performance by facilitating innovations closing digital gaps and streamlining data-use (in the forestbased value chain), focuses to solve the wicked problem of the industry, recognized by the three partner regions of the ConnectedByBiobord -project:
" The digital value chain in the forest industry does not have a continuous flow of information: The potential for increased economic, social, and environmental sustainability is significant. The technical solutions for data collection, storage and sharing are largely developed or under development. Many actors seek to solve the technical challenges associated with the gaps in the digital value chain, while the organizational challenges remain unresolved. This is the
wicked problem in the digital value chain of forestry. " - Technology report of the Forest Group, ConnectedByBiobord
Involved partners are:
Please find the joint agenda canvas, and supporting Technology Analysis -report from here.
If you are interest to join us to solve this wicked problem, don't hesitate to contact us!
Riikka Kumpulainen
Project Manager RDI2CluB & ConnectedByBiobord, network secretary of Biobord network
Phone & Whatsapp +358 505759454
E-mail: riikka.kumpulainen@jamk.fi
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As a sustainable long-term partnership, the Biobord network has defined its operating and co-working practices for inter-regional co-operation in the field of bioeconomy innovation. Developed in RDI2Club, Biobord Operating Model is a collection of network and platform management documents, guides for network partners, and user manuals on the Biobord platform. Its purpose is to guide the activities of the Biobord network and to define the administration of the Biobord platform.
In ConnectedByBiobord project, the Biobord Operating Model has been upgraded completely (including all connected documents) to reflect the lessons learned from innovation piloting and from the extension of the network. The structure was re-formatted to enhance user-friendliness, and to make the content easy to update. Also, new documents, the Biobord Network Agenda, and the Innovation process guide have been introduced.
One of the main lessons of the innovation piloting has been the concept of joint agenda and the related Joint Agenda Canvas tool for defining network initiatives. The Joint Agenda Canvas offers a tool for defining the feasibility, viability, and desirability of a network initiative. It is based on the Business Model Canvas tool and adapted to present and assess a network process.
As a result of the innovation pilots, the network partners have identified joint agendas on:
- Sustainable Food System
- Digital Forestry
- New technologies for wild-life monitoring
The established joint agendas are accompanied by the network co-working principles for the joint agenda co-operation defined in the innovation process guide (available online).
As one of the main guiding principles for developing the network operating model, we maintained a mantra of ‘keep it simple!’. This guideline might be simple, but not always easy to implement in inter-regional co-operation involving actors from different fields and sectors. In any case, we upgraded platform navigation features, structured network management documentation, and designed guides and tutorial videos with this principle in mind.
As a result, we now have a section ‘What can we do for you?’ at the About -page that features relevant and targeted information for:
We have designed a set of Biobord User Guides (1-5) and Biobord Network Partner Guides (1-3) as practical manuals guiding activities in the network and at the platform. User guides are accompanied by video tutorials that feature different platform functions in 3-10 minutes.
The platform management and network administration have been streamlined with clearer roles for the partners and the Network Secretary. As the Network Secretary, JAMK has taken some of the administrative burden and quality assurance tasks under their administration. These include e.g. the organization of the data protection, handling of partner applications, and the content creation in the Biobord platform.
As an extra benefit of the design of the innovation process, we also opted to utilize the Joint Agenda Canvas to develop the Biobord Network Agenda. This approach gave as an opportunity to elaborate, prioritize, and summarize the essential information and the concept of the Biobord network into two pages. Coming from the well-over hundred-page operating model to a two-page agenda is not only a victory for our future communication efforts, but it is also a showcase of improved understanding of the core purpose and value of the network co-operation.
We now have a clear value proposition for current and future partners supported by an upgraded network agreement that will be signed by the partners in Autumn 2021. All ready to future co-operation!
Read more of our Biobord Network Agenda
The innovation process guide is a practical handbook for planning and organizing innovation processes that connect different stakeholders to a co-creation dialogue. The innovation process is built on an iterative process involving 3 phases:
1) Co-learning (definition of problems and solutions);
2) Co-design (testing, piloting, validating solutions); and
3) Co-effectuate (analyzing viability, desirability, and feasibility).
In each step, a strong stakeholder dialogue is necessary.
The framework for our innovation process builds on the expertise of Krinova Incubators and Science Park with regards to the innovation process and on the expertise of JAMK University of Applied Sciences with regards to organizing collaborative learning and co-creation dialogue online. This expertise was applied in three innovation pilots implemented in ConnectedByBiobord -project during spring 2021.
The innovation pilots connected expert teams and stakeholders from at least three regions and countries to work together on defining and solving innovation challenges in the field of bioeconomy. All co-working took place completely online. The guide elaborates on the experiences of these practitioners when applying the innovation process and selected working methods for creative co-working in international teams and for building stakeholder dialogue in online setting.
In the guide, we present the steps of an international innovation process and the co-learning approaches implemented in the three innovation pilots. Finally, we introduce some of our working methods in detail – hackathon, field demonstration and the Joint Agenda Canvas. The working methods are presented with checklists for organizers compiled based on the pilot experiences. The working methods are defined with special consideration to the cross-cultural and cross-sectoral communication, as well as the online settings.
All Biobord Network Partner Guides are available at https://forum.biobord.eu/t/guides-for-biobord-network-partners/.
Download the innovation process guide here: Biobord Partner Guide 3: Innovation Process
Innovation guide is a tool for us in the Biobord Network that supports planning and implementing future co-operation initiatives and projects as well as the co-working on our joint agendas. Furthermore, the guide offers practically applicable insights for innovation actors from the fields of academy, policy, and business.
We hope you enjoy taking part in our innovation journey and are inspired to start planning international innovation co-operation with us!
The currently applied methods for monitoring the populations of wild animals and free-ranging livestock are time and cost intensive. That limits the opportunities for effective monitoring and data-based decision making in wildlife management and connected business areas, such as forestry, agriculture, and recreational hunting. New technologies such as drone-based remote sensing can help to improve evidence-based decision making and allow co-operation opportunities for sustainable management of animal populations.
As part of the ConnectedByBiobord project, four partner organizations from Latvia, Finland, Norway, and Poland joined their forces to develop an innovative, technology-based approach for the detection and monitoring of wild animals and free-ranging livestock.
The video documents the main challenges tackled with the help of technologies, the obtained results and the most important lessons learnt - https://youtu.be/NSu8kxxpaUk . Based on this experience, the partners have developed a plan for further cooperation to continue exploring and exploiting the technological capabilities for more sustainable management of natural resources. If you find this theme and our ideas interesting, do not hesitate to contact the Biobord network.
For more information about the ConnectedByBiobord project and the Biobord network, please refer to: https://forum.biobord.eu/t/remote-sensing-for-monitoring-of-wild-animals/2195
One of the main outputs of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region project ConnectedByBiobord was to deliver Joint Agendas to forward practical co-operation of the Biobord network members (RDI2CluB project partners and ConnectedByBiobord partners) within the selected themes, after the project lifetime.
One of the selected themes was ´Sustainable Food System´. The Joint Agenda was formulated between five international partners:
Food Innovation Pilot addressed the challenge targeting many Baltic Sea region food processors. The food industry, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs), are increasingly tackling with European and global society and food market demands for environmental sustainability, as well as fierce local and global competition.
Many food processors are trying to find niche for production of food or food ingredients from plant origin raw materials, as well obtain from plants ingredients for different food products and beverages. New protein sources, especially plant-based proteins, and new plant-based food products are on the agenda of many companies.
Innovative, economically justified technologies for extrusion of valuable compounds from plants and their introduction into new or known products, as well production of plant-based proteins can significantly support the enterprises in finding niche and strengthening their position in the market, as well would promote decrease of the negative climate effect of food production and introduce options for climate-friendly food consumption.
In order to search for solutions, the innovation process was organized in the ConnectedByBiobord-project and Joint Agenda of sustainable food system -theme was created by utilizing Business Model Canvas as a tool. The canvas describes the value proposition of the plan, target groups, key resources, channels and funding opportunities. The aim of the canvas is to display easily the main aspects of the plan, so that it is easy for anyone to join the co-working. Please find the full canvas from here.
To elaborate the ideas, operating field and it's needs, project partners wrote a thematic analysis study to complete the canvas. Please find it here.
Additionally the lessons learnt from the innovation process of the Food Pilot, can be found from our Innovation Guide.
If you are interested to join our work with sustainable food systems, don't hesitate to contact us!
Riikka Kumpulainen
Project Manager RDI2CluB & ConnectedByBiobord
Phone & Whatsapp +358 505759454
E-mail: riikka.kumpulainen@jamk.fi
Biobord-platform and Operating Model have been developed and tested in RDI2CluB-project (2017-2020) that ended in September 2020. Project was co-financed with the European Regional Development Funding programme Interreg Baltic Sea Region. Development work will continue in an extension stage project ConnectedByBiobord (10/2020 – 06/2021).
