Scale up together!

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Scale up together!

Rural food-based companies face challenges in scaling up due to limited networks and outdated business practices. Scale up together! – project targets these barriers by helping rural businesses to prepare for growth by encouraging innovative product development, use of digital tools, innovative business models, and tapping into new supply channels like tourism and short supply chains.

By providing a tailored scale-up programme, skills development, and cross-border collaboration, the project enables rural food companies to scale up their operations, expand into new markets, and strengthen their competitiveness while maintaining local traditions.

Expected results

The project implements an iterative cross-border scaling-up process based on various tools for ideation and rethinking business models. As methods e.g. innovation camps, sprints and tailored scaling up development strategies will be used. As a result there will be minimum 24 scaled up food or food tourism companies.

Expected results

The project implements an iterative cross-border scaling-up process based on various tools for ideation and rethinking business models. As methods e.g. innovation camps, sprints and tailored scaling up development strategies will be used. As a result there will be minimum 24 scaled up food or food tourism companies.

Duration 01.05.2025 - 30.04.2028

Total budget

Programme priority

Innovative Business Development

Programme objective

PO2 - More new scaled-up growth companies

Lead partner

University of Helsinki Ruralia Institute

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