Satakunta BioValley – a unifying force for the food sector in Satakunta
The food sector in Satakunta is thriving: companies are developing new solutions, projects are building collaboration, students are learning, and experts are conducting research and teaching. Now, all these actors are brought together in Satakunta BioValley, an eco-network for food sector stakeholders in Satakunta. The eco-network brings knowledge, people, and activities under one umbrella. It is a community that highlights the valuable work already being done in the region.
A shared goal. A shared will. A unifying force.
Satakunta BioValley is a community with a shared goal and determination. The goal is to make the Satakunta food sector more sustainable and more visible; the will is to achieve it together with others. Acting as a unifying force, Satakunta BioValley brings together actors, knowledge, and activities in the sector.
The initiative is driven by the Technologically greener and more vibrant South-Eastern Satakunta project under the Resource Wisdom Research Area. The aim is to create a functional and permanent ecosystem in which every food sector actor can participate. BioValley offers an opportunity to share resources, solve challenges together, and build food security. An individual piece may be small, but through a functioning community, a larger, more visible, and more sustainable food sector in Satakunta can be built. In practice, this means finding answers to questions such as:
- Does one company have unused production space that someone else could need?
- What resources can be shared between actors in a reasonable and mutually beneficial way?
- Can logistics solutions be combined with others?
- Does a company generate side streams that another could utilize?
- Can we discover new business opportunities together?
- How do we ensure access to skilled labor in the future?
These questions are addressed openly and by building trust in encounters between people. The goal is to jointly create a more sustainable future for the food sector in Satakunta.
Through collaboration we build strength, through knowledge we create development
Think of Satakunta BioValley as a shared table around which every actor brings their own piece. The piece can be an idea, expertise, a need, space, or simply the desire to build a more sustainable food sector together. Most importantly, it provides the opportunity to find missing pieces around you. This is a great opportunity to develop a new type of collaboration model: can two actors be connected where there was previously an empty space?
The Satakunta BioValley community is built from the people and companies involved. Every piece matters. The more actors gathered around the table, the more impactful, sustainable, and visible the whole becomes. A single action or actor can have a significant impact when combined with others. You might be the missing piece that someone else is looking for.
Satakunta BioValley has the potential to showcase Satakunta’s activity and collaboration both nationally and internationally. Together, let’s build a food sector community where achievements are genuinely celebrated and new solutions for a sustainable future are developed jointly.
Welcome to join in making Satakunta BioValley a shared success story for all food sector actors! Get in touch and let’s find out how the Satakunta BioValley community can meet your needs.
Contact for more information:
Annika Eklöf, Project Manager, annika.e.eklof@samk.fi
Elsa Penttilä, Communications Specialist, elsa.penttila@samk.fi
Funding:
The project is funded by the Just Transition Fund (JTF). The aim of the fund is to promote the green transition and mitigate the economic, social, and environmental impacts of phasing out peat production. The project operates under SAMK’s Resource Wisdom Research Area. The total budget is €912,757, of which the EU’s contribution is €730,204.
