Sustainability Hub

Develop your sustainability skills, learn new ones, and network!

Sustainable business and growth go hand in hand

Working in a sustainable manner is often the key to success, both in business and individual life. It gives you a competitive edge and not only helps protect the environment but also improves the well-being of individuals and society as a whole. When a company or individual is ethically sustainable, their decisions are based on values which seek to minimise the negative impact of their activities.

Many countries and regions have enacted laws and regulations that set a minimum level of ethical sustainability in the area concerned. By following these rules, companies can avoid legal problems and ensure the continuity of their operations in the future.

For an increasing number of companies, ethically sustainable business practices also bring new business opportunities and increases their competitive advantage. Companies can reduce their environmental impact while improving their profitability through, for example, increased energy efficiency, recycling, and reduced emissions. Consumers and investors also value companies that take sustainability seriously.

Join our Sustainability hub and develop your business’s sustainability through useful materials, events and networks!

Posintra will be developing business sustainability services during the autumn. Take a short survey and have your say: what kind of sustainability services does your company need? 

Answer the survey and make a difference

Posintran yritysneuvojat liiketoiminnan suunnittelun äärellä.

Recharge, learn, and network

Come join the hub for sustainable development

How can you develop your own as well as your company’s sustainability? How do other companies take sustainability into account? What tools could I use to develop sustainability? Our Sustainability Hub has answers to all these questions and more.

At the Sustainability Hub you get:

  • Coaching
  • Training
  • Webinars
  • Events
  • Useful materials
  • Networks for developing ethically sustainable business, completely free of charge.

Join our sustainability group and we can send information about sustainable events and issues straight to your inbox!

Sign up to the Sustainability Hub

Quick downloads – Useful materials for positive entrepreneurial energy!

Sitra – Sustainable growth from circular economy business models

A guide with information, examples, and practical tools to implement circular economy transformation in the everyday life of your business.

Download the guide

Motiva’s online courses

Motiva has online courses on energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Find out more

Design Forum Finland – circular economy-based design

Could “circular design” offer you something?

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FIBS – self assessment of business sustainability

The tool for self-assessing business sustainability is free of charge and has been developed by 4FRONT in cooperation with FIBS, the largest network of sustainable businesses in the Nordic countries.

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Yrittäjät database for business sustainability

A database for business sustainability in Finland

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City of Porvoo Climate Partnership Network

Porvoo’s Climate Partnership is an open network that provides businesses and other organizations with low-threshold access to climate and environmental expertise.

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Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment in Finland – CSR

Here you can find more about Corporate Social Responsibility legislation in Finland.

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Business Finland – Secure your sustainable growth

How to make the most of the green transition? Check out this constantly evolving database.

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Porvoo Green Transition Fund

Maybe the Porvoo Green Transition Fund could support for your business idea?

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Posintra YouTube channel

Check out our sustainability webinars among other videos on our YouTube channel!

Check out the material

UN Global Compact – Sustainable Development Goals explained for Business

Here you can find the sustainable business development goals of the United Nations.

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Get involved in sustainability projects!

Today, there is no need to choose between being sustainable or profitable when you can be both. The various training materials and projects offered through our Sustainability Hub, will help you not just make your business more ethically sustainable, but also implement that sustainability in practice. Perhaps our free project activities could be an easy way to begin making your business more sustainable?

Ongoing projects

Porvoo Kilpilahti

STRIIM stands for the “Strengthening Regional Industrial Innovation Model”

The STRIIM project aims to promote cooperation between businesses for a sustainable future by bringing participants together in new constellations, finding new angles for debate, and identifying new opportunities together.

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Co2Jump

Co2Jump – a leap into tackling climate change together

Co2Jump is a new and experimental networking initiative to develop climate resilience in SMEs and climate leadership in municipalities.

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Balanssi-hanke

Balanssi – SMEs for sustainable growth

Balanssi offers low-threshold access to a project that will help you deliver better value to your customers and your business through sustainable growth.

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WeCircle

WeCircle – Sustainable growth from the circular economy

WeCircle provides information, activities, and events to industrial and manufacturing SMEs in Porvoo and the surrounding area which promote the green transition to a circular economy.

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Carbon Neutral Experience 2.0

Carbon Neutral Experience 2.0 is promoting carbon neutrality in Uusimaa – in the sectors of tourism and hospitality and events – so the region can achieve its target by 2030. It’s also supporting businesses making the transition towards more sustainable and profitable business operations.

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Posintran henkilöstö istuu kivellä metsässä hymyillen

The Green Transition Fund is for companies making the leap to go green

The City of Porvoo’s Green Transition Fund encourages the municipality and SMEs in the area to be forward-looking by providing support for making the transition to more sustainable forms of business. The intention behind it is to attract and promote new solutions and increase the area’s collective competitiveness. The fund is also suitable for companies planning to set up operations in Porvoo. Find out if you could be eligible for financial support from the Green Transition Fund for your sustainable business idea.

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Book a time for a business consultation…

Do you need help setting up your business, developing it further, or dealing with those everyday challenges of being an entrepreneur? Our business advisory service can help find your own direction, whatever stage you’re at!

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Jenni Lähtevänoja

Business Developer

Jenni Lähtevänoja

Sustainable business, Balanssi project