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Partner search: Northern forests provide services like timber, bilberries, cowberries, mushrooms and support the livelihood of the Sami people. Northern forests are also crucial for biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, and offering recreational spaces and habitats for various animals. Efficient forest ecosystems are key in combating climate change impacts, including flood protection and other environmental challenges. Remote sensing (RS) techniques, particularly through unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are essential in identifying areas within northern forests that vary in their capacity to provide these ecosystem services (ESs). The future of northern forests depends

Partner search: Partners from Finland, Sweden and Norway for a project consortium: education providers (public and private), employers, municipalities, employment services (public and private), business development services, business associations, cross-border advice services, chambers of commerce, regional development services. We are also looking for other potential projects/project ideas with which we could cooperate on overlapping themes and activities! Possible activities: Upskilling & Reskilling: mapping of the current and future competence needs of employers in Northern FI-SWE-NOR (to achieve up-to-date data) Labor markets: mapping of the current and future labor needs of

Partner search for a Sámi handicrafts related cross-border project in which the purpose is to develop Sámi handicrafts education with the Sámi schools who are already offering sámi livelihoods based vocational education degrees such as Sámi Education Institute FIN, Sámi joatkkaskuvla ja boazodoalloskuvla NOR and Sámij Åhpadusguovdasj SWE. Contact: Janne Näkkäläjärvi, Sámi Education Institution, Development manager janne.nakkalajarvi@sogsakk.fi Photo by C Beaulé, Arto Saijets kuksas

Partner search: In Finland, responsibility for organising social and health services was transferred from municipalities to wellbeing services counties 1.1.2023. Lapland wellbeing county has a nationwide resposibility to develop social and health services in Sámi languages. Cross-border co-operation is an underutilized way to organize social and health services in Sámi languages. An Interreg project would make it possible to find new ways to organise those services in a way that benefits local Sámi communities in Finland and Norway. Contact: Tuuli.miettunen, Lapin hyvinvointialue/Lapland wellbeing services county tuuli.miettunen@lapha.fi

Partner search: Partners from regions with business establishments that entail large recruitment needs: VET educators, employers, associations. Strategic cooperation between education and industry in connection with the green transition. Focus on vocational education and training (VET). Possible activities: – mapping of the current state of cooperation between vocational education and training and employers within industry in connection with the green transition as well as social services and health care – forecasting needs regarding VET competence development and recruitment – mapping and development of models for cooperation between VET educators and

Waste Insight is a research team at the University of Vaasa developing innovative solutions for food waste prevention and reduction through new technology and sociocultural change, especially in public kitchens and private restaurants. For more information about previous and on-going projects, please visit Waste Insights website. Contact: Juha Vänskä, University of Vaasa, Development Manager juha.vanska@uwasa.fi