🌲🚀 Cuenca boosts forest-based bioeconomy with over 20 sustainable startups 🌍💼

The Urban Forest Innovation Lab (UFIL) turns green ideas into real businesses

Since 2019, Cuenca has proven that innovation and sustainability can go hand in hand to transform communities. Through the Urban Forest Innovation Lab (UFIL), the city has supported over 20 sustainable companies, all born from local talent and focused on responsible forest resource use. 🌳🌟

This urban lab combines technical training, business mentoring, and connections to green investment networks, all framed within bioeconomy and circular economy principles. 🔁🧠

🔍 Key achievements:

🌱 119 forest innovation projects incubated in less than five years.

🏭 20 have become fully operational businesses in renewable energy, sustainable timber, bioplastics, and ecotourism.

📚 Offers specialized education on environmental innovation.

🤝 Builds collaboration networks among entrepreneurs, institutions, and companies.

UFIL-born startups create local jobs, revitalize rural areas, and promote smart forest use, proving that economic development can align with environmental care. 🌍💼

Cuenca has become a European model of mid-sized city driven by green entrepreneurship, with other regions looking to replicate its success.

✨ When innovation grows from the forest, it stands tall—with deep roots and a future vision.Cuenca shows sustainability can power opportunity.

📚 Source: UFIL Cuenca / Cuenca City Hall / European Forest Institutehttps://ufil.es