To give business attendees within the bio-energy branch the very best opportunity for making contacts as to their products and end users, the founders of the event decided from the beginning to impose a European-American focus on the arrangement.

Aside from providing a place to see working best practices and technology from around the world, the International Bioenergy Days are meant, as much as possible, to serve as a business to business forum where possibilities for cross-border trade and job creation can be also become better understood and promoted. Since a large number of the participants are decision makers from the Nordic countries and the U.S., the event can even serve as a great place to learn from and network among one’s own countrymen and women.

Thanks to this arrangement, the attendee is guaranteed the opportunity to reach out to new target groups far outside of one’s own normal circles but, yet, which are highly valuable circles and networks that can serve as sources of cutting-edge complementary information and business opportunities. Fellow attendees can provide you with contacts into Europe, the Baltic States, Russia, Latin America, and Asia.

Other purposes identified by the project group are, for example, to:                  

- Highlight the driving force of entrepreneurship;   
- Encourage new ways of thinking and innovation;
- Create long-term alliances;
- Attract and promote opportunities for direct investments and venture capital;
- Increase import and export;
- Strengthen the competencies of small and medium-sized companies;
- Strengthen the international consciousness in all regions;
- Knowledge building events for participating companies as well as for local actors;
- Enable valuable benchmarking between counties, organizations, and companies;
- Bring media attention to bio-energy options and bio-energy companies.