The Location Innovation Hub project has now been running for 1.5 years, so we are halfway through the project period. The EU Commission invites all EDIHs to the mid-term review and it was our turn on 10 September when we met in Kajaani.

We presented our work to the European evaluators and to Jaakko Aarnio, the policy officer in charge of EDIHs in the Nordic and Baltic countries. We received valuable feedback that will allow us to continue our work. We received particularly good feedback on our training activities to accelerate innovation and on the Borrow a Researcher concept that we have developed to increase business cooperation between research institutions.

But there was also room for improvement. During the autumn, we will, for example, work with our partners to streamline our customer process. The aim is to communicate more clearly, both internally and externally, how our customers are served and what benefits they receive. We are looking for new ways to engage with our partners in customer acquisition and collaboration, so that we have better quality customer cases and publishable success stories.

We are also opening our doors to Europe more actively and looking for potential clients from different European countries.