Meet and Beat Cosun Beet´s sweet Challenges!

At COSUN BEET HACKATHON we invite you to offer solutions how to turn sugar beet residues into valuable resources instead of waste. Join us in this exciting opportunity to tackle Cosun Beet’s sweet challenges.

We are open to exploring new business opportunities and research collaborations.

The registration is now open to compete for the best idea or innovation that can solve the challenge Transforming sugar beet residues from waste to value.

What is Cosun Beet and what is the challenge about?

The Cosun Beet Company’s Anklam site processes sugar beets into white sugar, bioethanol, and biomethane, resulting in various biogenic residues. Approximately 2 million tons of sugar beets are processed each year from September to January, with intermediate products stored and bioethanol and biomethane produced throughout the year.

The goal is to transform the factory into a green biorefinery, offering a diverse product portfolio for different markets. Cosun Beet aims to provide sustainable and climate-friendly products for various purposes by exploring new technologies, solutions, and partnerships to convert the residues into valuable resources. Therefore, Cosun Beet Company is actively searching for providers who can offer innovative concepts, technologies, and equipment to effectively utilize the specified residues.

“Our mission is to use the full potential of plants in a transparent, circular way. We call this The Plant Positive Way”, says Matthias Sauer, CEO of Cosun Beet.

Read more at: BioBoosters (witeno.com)

Võiste Hackathon – Mining the Green Gold from Greenhouse Biomass

Open webinar on 16/02/2024 at 9.00 CET

The launch webinar is a great opportunity to get insight into what kind of green gold can be mined by extracting value from biomass. You will also learn more about the scope of the challenge and detailed schedule of the hackathon process. Practical tips about the applying process and participation in Võiste Hackathon will also be covered. 🌱🍅

PROGRAM:
🌱 Welcome – Toomas Toodu/moderator, Pärnu County Development Centre;
🌱 Presentation of the Challenge for Võiste Greenhouse – Mirko Metsaoru, Owner Võiste Greenhouse;
🌱 The BioBoosters concept – Anna Aalto, Jyväskylä University of Applied Science;
🌱 Extracting Value from Biomass – Reelika Rätsep (Phd), Scientific Researcher at Estonian University of Life Sciences;
🌱 Q&A

Be part of our journey towards smart circular horticulture!

Please sign up for the webinar HERE: VÕISTE HACKATHON – Mining the Green Gold – Kobar – Pärnumaa innovatsioonikeskus (parnukobar.ee)

Cosun Beet actively seeks solutions and partnerships to transform residues from beet processing into valuable resources. The focus areas include utilizing beet leaves, beet soil, digestate from their biogas plant and vinasse from the bioethanol plant. Cosun Beet is open to exploring new business opportunities and research collaborations.

Read more at Launch webinar of the Cosun Beet Hackathon powered by BioBoosters – Interreg Baltic Sea Region (interreg-baltic.eu)

Challenge in details Invitation_CosunBeetHackathon_Transforming-Sugar-Beet-Residues.pdf (witeno.com)

Register to the launch webinar ! Launch-Webinar (eveeno.com)

CMMS SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS – Launch webinar for AlojasHackathon powered by BioBoosters

As part of the Baltic Sea region project “BioBoosters”, Vidzeme Planning region in cooperation with “Aloja Starkelsen”Ltd. invites technology companies, IT product managers and planners, logistics, warehouse and production facilities service and planning specialists, student teams and researchers to participate in the informative webinar of hackathon challenge call, which will take place on October 12.

Join the introduction webinar and learn about the challenge to solve it and develop an efficient system for servicing equipment and maintaining a spare parts warehouse!

During the webinar, “Aloja Starkelsen” will introduce to the company and the challenge “Development of CMMS system improvements, more efficient equipment servicing and maintenance of spare parts warehouse”. The goal of the challenge is to streamline and ensure a sustainable production process, providing it with a planned and logical equipment service strategy or plan, at the same time creating a rational and easy-to-operate spare part, warehouse of production materials, thus saving natural, material and human resources, making the product competitive and greener.

As a result of the hackathon, the company wants to get a technical specification, or terms of reference, for a software developer to work together to create a working, easy-to-use system. The winning team of the hackathon will be entitled to sign a system supply contract with “Aloja Starkelsen”.

Webinar date: October 12, from: 13:00 – 15:00 (EEST / UTC+3)

Venue: Online, Zoom

Webinar registration link

Have you ever wondered about the untapped potential hidden in everyday by-products? At Holmen, we’re diving deep into one specific query: How can we transform wood ash – a by-product from our biofuel boilers created during the heating and drying process of wood – from waste to wonder?

We invite you to become part of this unique opportunity to tackle our challenge. Together with Holmen’s experts and the companies in our BioBoosters network, you will have the opportunity to develop innovative methods and solutions. Are you the team we are looking for? Send in your application to solve the challenge and participate in the hackathon no later than October 20,2023.

Read more and apply here 

Invitation to HolmenHackathon