The Arctic Award 2020 winners are announced, BRIDGE is one of them

Published: December 9, 2020

Winners of the Arctic Awards project competition were announced today on the Arctic Cooperation Facebook page. The Arctic Awards 2020 is the fourth edition of the well-received project competition for cooperation projects in the Arctic.

The awards aim to highlight innovative projects with a clear Arctic dimension, which are viewed as inspirational in their participating regions as well as being seen as creating real measurable impacts on the ground, and being of direct benefit to Arctic communities.

In the category: Arctic Entrepreneurial Spirit the winner of the 2020 Arctic Award is the project:
BRIDGE, Barents Region Initiative for Development Growth and Employability, funded by the Kolarctic ENI CBC programme.

The BRIDGE project has demonstrated:

  • focus on enhancing young people’s entrepreneurial skills and employability, as well as creating networks between potential employees and employers,
  • the ability to tackle relevant day-to-day demands of both universities and SMEs,
  • concrete potential to produce a permanent impact on the practices of the participating higher education institutions and the SMEs, such as improvement in employment rates and quality of the workforce.

 

In the category: Overcoming Critical Mass the winner of the 2020 Arctic Award is the project:
FUTURE CLEANTECH SOLUTIONS, funded by the Interreg Botnia Atlantica programme.

The FUTURE CLEANTECH SOLUTIONS project has demonstrated:

  • a concrete cooperation model innovating CleanTech businesses in the Kvarken region, as well as natural resources and equality in the region,
  • answering to the needs of sparsely populated areas by means of clustering, promotion of clean-tech solutions and creation of vertical links between Arctic companies,
  • an approach that is agile and relatively easy to scale up and deploy in other parts of the Arctic.

The winners were announced on the Arctic Cooperation Facebook page, with a dedicated video which can be watched at this link: https://youtu.be/RigJgwYg2N4 
We hope that the global situation will improve quickly and that it will soon be possible to celebrate the winners in person at an event.
We congratulate the winners!

 

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