Stay up to date with what’s happening across the STRIVE project.
From event highlights and partner stories to key project activities and milestones, this is where we share the latest news, upcoming events, and insights from the South Baltic’s sustainable tourism journey.
Closing the nutrient loop at Malmö Garden Show and the Malmo Festival through circular sanitation innovation
Collaboration between City of Malmo and Sanitation360 showcased how festivals can become testbeds for sustainable solutions
Festivals and public events have the potential to become more than temporary gatherings. They can serve as real-world environments where innovative solutions are tested, demonstrated, and shared with the public.
As part of the STRIVE project, a collaboration between City of Malmo and Sanitation360 was made possible during Malmö Garden Show 2026 on May 29th to 31st. The pilot at Malmö Garden Show provided further opportunity to explore how circular sanitation solutions can be integrated into festivals and contribute to a more sustainable future.
During the Malmö Garden Show, Sanitation360 collected source-separated urine through specially designed urinals as part of their circular sanitation solution. By recovering nutrients from human urine, the pilot demonstrated how valuable resources can be returned to the cycle and contribute to the development of recycled fertilisers. The initiative highlighted the role that festivals and public events can play as living testbeds for sustainable innovation. By creating spaces where new solutions can be tested in real-world settings, events can help connect municipalities, companies, and citizens around new approaches to sustainability.
The collaboration reflects the ambitions of STRIVE, which works with festivals, municipalities, and innovation partners across the South Baltic region to strengthen resilience and accelerate the transition towards more sustainable festivals and tourism, by implementing cross-border solutions and test how they can be scaled and replicated in living labs.
“The most exciting part of this is that we successfully piloted this solution at the Malmo Festival in 2025. Since then, Sanitation360 have matured as a business and partnered with a Swedish distributor and the Danish startup Lapee. We are now able to nudge our own organization as well within the City of Malmo by piloting the same solution at multiple events and settings in our city. By piloting at Malmö Garden Show this spring – we and Sanitation360 also made valuable learnings to bring into the main STRIVE pilot this year at the Malmo Festival 2026 on August 7th to 14th.” – says Christin Persson, project coordinator for STRIVE at City of Malmo.
STRIVE Visits Folkemødet Bornholm
The STRIVE partners met up on Bornholm, to learn more about Folkemødet.
On the 12-14th of June 2025 partners from around the South Baltic met up on Bornholm to learn from Folkemødet, how their activities in STRIVE are taking form, and to get key insights on the different sustainable activities that Folkemødet has already implemented. The partner meetings at Festivals is a key role in the project, to knowledge share on best practises.
Call for Innovation! – CLOSED
Testing your solutions at major festivals in the South Baltic Region
Are you a small or medium-sized company with an innovative circular solution? And do you want to pilot your solution at a festival in Denmark, Sweden, Germany or Poland?
STRIVE are testing solution at Regional Festivals in 2026!
If you are interested in showcasing your solution in STRIVE, please contact us for more information
STRIVE PROJECT
Funded by the Interreg South Baltic Programme
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