Testbed Helsinki

General

Get to know the testbed service paths

The City of Helsinki testbed team and Futurice Oy worked together to design and visualise the service paths of economic development testing activities. The service paths were formulated separately for testing based on the City’s innovation challenges and company-driven tests.

Challenge competition: how the demolition survey data could be utilized more widely?

Circular Design Network has launched a challenge competition to find new ideas and concepts for utilizing data in circular economy. The challenge by City of Helsinki's Circular Economy Cluster Program and Motiva Services is one out of the six.

Testbed Helsinki is one year old!

Testbed.Helsinki has reached the age of one. The website, launched in 2020, showcases development and testing platform activities in the City of Helsinki – but what does that actually mean?

Helsinki is a pioneer in intelligent transport – come and hear about the City’s intelligent transport experiments

The City of Helsinki develops the city’s development and experimentation platform activities by providing environments where different actors can experiment with their services and products in a genuine urban environment.

Welfare technology helps address the challenges of sedentary behaviour in Helsinki

The costs of sedentary behaviour are socially significant: we are sitting more and moving less than ever before. On the other hand, Finland has long been considered to be a pioneer in welfare technology.

Helsinki City Housing Company – Heka innovation program

Apply for the Innovation Program by 5th December 2021 to present offer your solution for low carbon housing to Helsinki City Housing Company! As the largest lessor in Finland, Helsinki City Housing Company HEKA maintains a building portfolio that includes over 50,000 apartments serving over 92,000 residents.

Ten teams have started in the first incubation programme for education technology

EdTech Incubator Helsinki is the first business incubator in Finland to focus on supporting young start-ups in education technology. It started operating in early November.

Seniors exercised actively in company challenges of Helsinki Physical Activity Programme

The City of Helsinki set an increase in physical activity as one of the main goals of its City Strategy for 2017–2021. Companies were also approached to seek solutions for fighting a sedentary lifestyle. In early 2021, we started a pilot project for companies to increase the activity of seniors living at home in Helsinki. The digital pilots were implemented with two companies, Rehaboo and Fustra. Based on the feedback from seniors, these pilots were seen as useful and increasing activity. Based on the pilots, the companies received several ideas for the development of their products, which will help them serve the senior target group even better in the future.

Zoan to introduce a virtual learning experience to Korkeasaari Zoo

The City of Helsinki and Korkeasaari Zoo have chosen virtual studio Zoan to develop XR content for the rainforest section of the zoo’s two tropical houses. Korkeasaari Zoo wants to tap into the potential of virtual reality technology to grow its user experience, especially through the building of an interactive learning path for school groups. The collaborative project brings together experts from different fields to build an integrated and inspiring learning environment.

Circular economy cluster launched with the emptying of over 10,000 square metres in Katajanokka

In a few years, Katajanokanlaituri 4 will be the site of Spring – a meeting place for city residents and service providers, a hotel and the headquarters of Stora Enso.