Bioeconomy campus will host the LiukasHackathon innovation competition on November 25–26, 2024, where an intelligent logistics control solution will be developed to meet the needs of the growing biogas and recycled fertilizer production value chain. LiukasHackathon addresses the challenge of recycled nutrient logistics, which is becoming increasingly significant with the upcoming biogas plant investments. The Biogas Vision 2030 anticipates 4 terawatt-hours of biogas production in Finland by 2030. This would mean quadrupling biogas production and significantly increasing the supply of recycled fertilizers and logistics between farms and biogas plants.
“LiukasHackathon is seeking much-needed solutions to improve nutrient logistics. Additionally, it is expected that the Hackathon will also find new tools for precision fertilization. I see that there is demand for the sought-after solution outside of Finland as well”, says the executive director Anna Virolainen-Hynnä from Finnish Biocycle and Biogas Association.
LiukasHackathon is seeking solution teams until October 27, 2024, from Finland and the BioBoosters project’s Baltic Sea region networks. Selected teams will participate in the Hackathon, culminating in a competition held at the Bioeconomy campus in Saarijärvi on November 25–26, 2024, where the winner or winners will be chosen. The bioeconomy campus is the homebase for an International Smart Agriculture Co-Creation Environment and Competence Cluster, Finnish Future Farm.
The challenge provider, Kuljetus Tero Liukas Oy, aims to digitize transport management with an intelligent comprehensive solution that addresses both today’s data management bottlenecks and future customer needs. The company is seeking a smart logistics management solution to optimize both transported kilometers and delivered nutrients. A broader need for the developed solution is foreseen both domestically and internationally.
“We offer the winner or winners the opportunity to collaborate in developing and piloting the new solution. We aim to implement the development project during 2025 with the support of the Nutrient Recycling Experimentation Program. We have not found a service on the market that meets our needs, and we believe that there is growing national and international demand for the piloted solution,” says the CEO Tero Liukas, CEO of Kuljetus Tero Liukas Oy.
LiukasHackathon is part of the international BioBoosters project led by Jamk University of Applied Sciences and co-funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Program. BioBoosters, which brings together nine bioeconomy innovation networks from the Baltic Sea countries, including Finland, Sweden, the Baltic States, Poland, and Germany. The project organizes 18 Hackathons that support the responsible business and circular economy transition of bioeconomy companies.
