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Magnus Persson

Senior Advisor Innovation&Development

Paper Province

Karlstad, Sweden

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Thirty years experience from the circular bio based economy and the last 20 worked as a facilitator creating value through transforming the society.

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Paper Province

Paper Province

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Karlstad, Sweden

Paper Province is a world-leading forest bioeconomy cluster. What does it mean? It means that we attract, bring together and develop the key players needed to create the greatest possible social benefits using the forest.
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About me

Education

  • 1991-1996 Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management

Work experience

  • 2007- Project Manager at Paper Province economic association

  • 2001-2007 Manager Business Administration and expert ERP at Metso Paper

  • 1995-2001 Cost Engineer at Kvaerner Pulping

Projects

Work with application, consortium agreement and connecting partners. In project work as Project Manager leading the work from Paper Province often as work package leader. 10 last projects:

  • (2023-2027) PLASTIX

    Plastics Revolution for European Regions (Interreg Europe Project)

  • (2023-2025) RISE
    Resilient Innovation Ecosystems for EU Value Chains
    (Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) Instrument)

  • (2023-2026) Forest resources in circular systems (Energimyndigheten, Sweden)

  • (2023-2025) BioBoosters -  Boosting the circular transition (Interreg Baltic Sea Region)

  • (2021-2023) InnoPels
    Increased resource efficiency through innovative new raw material management in the production of fuel pellets
    (Vinnova, Sweden)

  • (2021) ConnectedByBiobord,
    Biobord open innovation platform connecting bioeconomy developers in BSR

    (Interreg Baltic Sea Region Flagship Project)

  • (2020-2022) ROSEWOOD4.0
    EU Network of Regions on Sustainable Wood Mobilisation Ready for Digitalisation (EU Horizon 2020)

  • (2020-2023) DigiTeRRI
    Responsible Research and Innovation Approach for Transitioning the Traditional Industry Regions into Digitalised Industry Territories. (EU Horizon 2020)

  • (2020-2022) Nordic Circular Hubs (Nordic Innovation)

  • (2019-2022)  Enriched biochar from forest industrial residues for fertilizing plants and woodland (Vinnova, Sweden)

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Skills

  • project management
  • cluster management
  • facilitator

Interests

  • circular economy
  • industrial symbiosis
  • scaling-up
  • start-ups
  • Forest-based bioeconomy

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Areas of activity

Circular business modelsIndustrial symbiosisBioeconomyEnergyWater managementPackaging

Region

SW-NORTH MIDDLE SWEEDEN

THEMATIC GROUPS INTEREST

TG-Boosting Circular Business ModelsTG-Circular water in the industryTG-Biobased materials in ConstructionTG- Circular PackagingTG-Secondary raw materialsTG-Design out of wasteTG-Industrial symbiosis