The prestigious jury of the Bank of Åland have chosen the Nutribute platform developed by the John Nurminen Foundation as the best digital Baltic Sea innovation of 2018. Along with the gold medal in the new Digital Innovations category, Nutribute came third in the public vote and won a sum of 15,000 euros for further development of the platform. For the Digital Innovations category, also Ilkka Paananen, CEO of Supercell, and Niklas Zennström, founder of Skype, joined the project jury as experts in the field.
The nomination was published yesterday at Vene 18 Båt exhibition at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre.
Nutribute introduces – for the first time – the principle of crowdfunding into Baltic Sea protection. It transforms Baltic Sea protection ideas into concrete action and encourages citizens to participate in the reduction of nutrient loading.
Nutribute platform is one concrete outcome of the NutriTrade project, financed by European Union Baltic Sea Region Programme.
Visit Nutribute at www.nutribute.org
Read more about the Baltic Sea project of the Bank of Åland
