Test your circular solution at a festival in 2026

Are you a small or medium-sized company with an innovative circular solution? Would you like to pilot your idea in a real-life festival setting?

As part of the Interreg-funded STRIVE project, we’re launching a call for innovation to find solutions for some of the most pressing sustainability challenges at festivals in the South Baltic Region. This is your opportunity to test your solution at one or several festivals in 2026: Folkemødet (DK), Malmöfestivalen (SE), Hanse Sail (DE), Baltic Sail (PL) or the Freedom & Solidarity Festival (PL).

Festivals are important hubs of culture, community, and tourism — but they also generate significant waste, pollution, and resource consumption. Through STRIVE, festivals are coming together to turn these challenges into opportunities by using their events as test beds for circular innovation.

We’re seeking solutions to the following challenges:

1. How might we build a system for reusable beverage packaging?
2. How might we reduce the waste from food packaging?
3. How might we improve sanitary solutions at festivals to reduce the consumption of water and chemicals?
4. How might we reduce the waste from festival promotional materials?
5. How might we reduce biological waste from food trucks and booths?
6. How might we change the behavior of festival guests to increase the separation of waste during the festivals?
7. How might we reuse abandoned materials?

Have a solution that does not fit these categories? You are still welcome to apply — we’d love to hear from you!

Join the info-webinar!

Sign up to our info-webinar on June 19^th from 10:00-11:30 CEST, where you will get the chance to hear more about the challenges and meet the festivals!

Preleminary program:

• Introduction to STRIVE and the piloting opportunity
• Introduction to the challenges
• Q&A

This webinar is co-financed by Interreg South Baltic with funds from The European Union through the STRIVE project.