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The World Heritage Menu from High Coast and Kvarken Archipelago, planned by the wellknown chef Michael Björklund and served onboard the Wasa Express ferry in autumn 2016, is now available for all food lovers.

The first business accelerator for the energy sector will be launched in Vaasa in October. The accelerator received plenty of applications from all over the world.

Sustainable tourism, hospitality, internationalization and cooperation were the themes for the two-day seminar organized in Vaasa-Umeå in May.

EnergyWeek, the international event for energy technology professionals, takes place once again in Vaasa on 20–24 March 2017. The number of events has grown year after year, and this year there are 10 events and many side events.

More than 120 leaders and experts are participating in a meeting to prepare the application. Ministers Mika Lintilä and Kai Mykkänen: Vaasa has all the resources needed to carry out the project.

Vaasa has strengthened the partner network of the Gigafactory project. Considering the battery production the very central producers of raw materials, Keliber and Norilsk Nickel Harjavalta are participating in the network coalition that’s being built around the project.

The major international energy sector event, Vaasa EnergyWeek (20–24 March 2017) is almost here again and now larger than ever, with 10 different focal events. New events for the week include the Energy Business Forum, which focuses on international investments within the energy sector and is organised by Technology Centre Merinova, and the Cyber Security & Digitalization seminar organised by the Jyväskylä Regional Development Company Jykes and Merinova.

The biggest energy cluster in the Nordic countries offers both the vision and a proven ecosystem for the project. The City of Vaasa, on the Western coast of Finland, has announced it is preparing a proposal for the Tesla Gigafactory. Tesla Motor’s first Gigafactory producing lithium-ion batteries opened in Nevada, USA in July 2016. This factory will ultimately also build Tesla electric vehicles. Three weeks ago Tesla announced their intention to build their next Gigafactory in Europe.

Spotlight High–Low Coast’s project management group made a study visit in October to the Vega Archipelago, one of the Nordic World Heritage Sites. The archipelago was elected a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004, a few years before the Kvarken Archipelago and four years after the High Coast.

The innovation voucher provided by Tekes is intended for SMEs wishing to launch innovation activities. Innovation activities refer to all measures employed by the company to develop its products, services or processes, or to acquire new knowledge and competencies required in innovation activities.