The Circular Green Blocks project is looking for innovative circular economy service solutions to improve yard areas and / or promote urban farming in the project's pilot blocks in the Helsinki Metropolitan area. The aim of the pilot is to develop solutions together with enterprises to suit in needs of housing companies. The idea is that these companies could utilize the service in the future by ordering it directly from the service provider.

An information session of the open call was held for those interested on 4^th of April. The information presented the content of open call, the form for submitting an offer and the selection evaluation criteria.

If you didn’t have chance to attend, and still want to offer your service solution, you can send an e-mail to Lassi Sarlos. We will provide a recording of the information for those who want to watch it afterwards. The recording of the session is in Finnish.

Summary of the open call:

• The form to send the offer is open from 4^th until 24^th of April. Form closes on 24^th of April at 11:59 p.m.
• The total budget for the pilot is € 9,000 (VAT 0 %).
• Number of service providers to be selected is from one to three.
• The offer is required by companies and other operators with a business ID.
• The experiments should run from May to October 2022.
• The company can test its solution at least in one and at most in three of the pilot blocks.
• The development of solutions includes co-development during and after piloting.
• HSY acts as the evaluator of the received offers and the selector of the pilots.

Open call for pilots (in Finnish)

Presentation of the pilot blocks (in Finnish)