Cluster Summit Finland 2025 & Cluster Collaboration Lab (C2Lab) Kuopio, Finland

TThe C2Lab is a co-creation space and counts on your active participation. The aim is to mature project ideas for the indicated challenges in discussions with the other participants and build a proposal together. The work initiated at the C2Lab should be further implemented after the lab itself. For the work at the lab, we will provide you with a project canvas and facilitators to help and guide the process.

1. Register, choose a topic, and set up your profile 

When registering for the event on the B2Match platform, participants will choose a topic or submit a project idea they want to work on.

2. Join the preparatory activities

Before the in-person event, you have different options to make the most of your participation in the C2Lab:

Share your ideas in the marketplace

Participants are invited to present their ideas or capabilities they can offer for new projects in the so-called “marketplace”. This page is visible to all confirmed participants. They will be able to browse and see what the others bring to the table.

Virtual networking and booking online meetings

Participants have the option to invite others to bilateral meetings to speak about collaboration opportunities, which can be further explored at the C2Lab. These meetings will take place online on the B2Match platform between registration and the in-person workshop.

Online pitching sessions

Confirmed participants are invited to join two online pitching sessions taking place on 18 September, 10:00 CET, and 9 October, 10:00 CET. The participants have the chance to introduce themselves personally, and potentially any project ideas, to the other attendees. This opportunity is a complementary activity to enhance the experience at the C2Lab and to help define working groups.

3. In-person C2Lab

Participants will meet in Kuopio on 29-30 October 2025, and optionally on 28 October for the Cluster Summit Finland. Participants will divide into working groups according to their topic interests and initiate the development of a join project. Each working group will be guided by a facilitator.

The goal is to have a project roadmap at the end of the C2Lab that the teams will be able to further implement and bring to a public call or alternative funding opportunities.