In the middle of March Paper Province is launching an international innovation competition called What wood you do. The focus of the competition is innovative ideas from all over the world.

From 16 March to 27 April we will collect ideas on the competition site. We will select five ideas with the highest potential and invite the teams to the city of Karlstad, Sweden for a 48 hour hackathon, where they will present their ideas to an expert jury.

The chosen winning idea and team will receive €25 000 and a possible place in the innovation incubator Sting Bioeconomy.

Through the competition you can:

• Make your idea come true
• Scale up your start-up
• Turn research into industry solutions

The region of Värmland is one of the worlds leading hubs in forest bioeconomy due to the high concentration of forest industries combined with research and innovative network.

We want to find that next big idea that will bring forest bioeconomy into the future and be a part of the journey from idea to reality.

We know that healthy forests are crucial to a sustainable future. So the question is What wood you do?