Customers, entrepreneurs and the City have all expressed their wishes for more dynamic ticket sales for water transport. The MaaS in Water Transport project is a step towards this goal. In this project, a ticket sales interface for route tickets in water transport is being implemented together with maritime operators.

Kokeilujoukot offers Helsinki residents the opportunity to participate in various surveys, workshops and trials.

The Kalasatama district of Helsinki is gaining a reputation as an forward-looking  residential area in which conventions have been replaced with experiments. However, at the centre of the test laboratory of the future are the residents.

The new innovation hub Urban3 for built environment and smart city operators was launched at its opening ceremony on 18 March 2021. Operations were gradually initiated in 2020 at Maria 01, the largest startup hub in the Nordic countries. 

Helsinki explored new ways of sharing and utilising data about e-scooter use last summer and autumn. The pilot was conducted in cooperation between French company Vianova, micro-mobility operators Voi and Tier, Forum Virium Helsinki, and the City of Helsinki.

The agile pilots of Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab for spring 2021 have been selected. In the call for pilots at the turn of the year, new innovations for smart mobility to be trialled in the West Harbour area of Helsinki were sought.

Digital solutions that improve the impact of the Healthy Outdoor Premises for Everyone (HOPE) project’s interventions and, consequently, the quality of air, were sought in the Innovations4Interventions (I4I) competition. Four companies were chosen from a total of 15 entries in the competition.

General upper secondary school students from Helsinki had the opportunity to test the Chillaa mobile app developed by Adventure Club and provide feedback. Chillaa is an app originally designed for upper stage comprehensive school pupils with the aim of teaching them skills in mind management and social interaction and boosting their self-confidence. 

The pilot restaurants of the Mission Zero Foodprint will be testing an OpenCO2.net based Climate Calculator of individual meals developed by Clonet Oy. Within the pilot, the aim is also to determine how the carbon footprint could be best communicated to the customers.

The Logistics Accessibility Data project solves challenges in local distribution by making information on reachability available to all logistics operators in the form of open, standardised data. The concrete objective is to create an operating model for companies to convey last mile delivery data to drivers as open data.

The aim is to find pilots related to planning and establishing new green infrastructure solutions and new local food related business models that help facilitate better urban planning and scalable solutions. The call for pilots is open 3.3.–28.3.2021.

The call for pilot projects ended in mid-January and the companies have been selected. Three solutions from Tutkimus- ja Analysointikeskus TAK Oy, Salmi Platform Oy and Positive Impact Finland Oy were selected for the projects.

This position offers a front-row seat to the development of digital smart city services and the building of the data platforms that make them possible. You will get to use your expertise to help the City and companies create harmonised ways of collecting, transmitting and utilising data. Your efforts will facilitate the creation of new urban services and business activities on top of a high-quality knowledge base and effective APIs.

In the Nordic Healthy Cities project, the participant cities will run five pilot projects that will test innovative practices to tackle health challenges in future urban areas.

A robot courier that allows for automated food logistics between the Kustaankartano food centre and the senior centre is being tested in Helsinki. The purpose of the pilot carried out in co-operation between City of Helsinki Service Centre, City of Helsinki Social Services and Health Care Division and Forum Virium Helsinki is to make it easier to deliver meals to the senior centre’s wards.

Sohjoa Last Mile continues from where the Sohjoa Baltic project left off. The lessons learned in the previous project will be utilised and the level of difficulty of the pilots will be raised to the next level. The primary objective of the pilots will be to operate automated minibuses without a safety driver inside the vehicle. The pilots will also involve the testing of a demand responsive service concept and focus on improving the reliability of services.

Place a meal order on your smartphone and get it delivered by a robot. Here we share what it’s like to experiment novel services in urban labs. 

Forum Virium Helsinki to step into the era of data utilisation.

Voice-controlled services, a mobility application tailored for children, real-time public transport capacity data and virtual route previews. Älyliikenne kuuluu kaikille 2.0 (Smart Mobility Belongs to Everyone 2.0) workshop was all about coming up with ideas to address the major mobility challenges of different people.

As populations grow, traditional traffic infrastructure is pushed to its limits. Mobility is therefore expanding into the third dimension – the airspace. AiRMOUR is a research and innovation project supporting sustainable air mobility in urban contexts via emergency and medical services.

Helsinki was ranked the world’s second best smart city and Finland was ranked Europe’s second most innovative country in the 2020 smart city comparison.