About

Forum Virium Helsinki

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Forum Virium Helsinki is the City of Helsinki innovation company. We co-create urban futures with companies, universities, public sector and Helsinki residents.

Pilot and co-create with us

Forum Virium Helsinki is the innovation company of the City of Helsinki. As a non-profit organization, we act as a strategic innovation partner, co-creating smart, digital, and sustainable urban solutions for the future.

We build bridges between cities, businesses, research institutions, and citizens. By facilitating real-world living labs and managing high-impact research, development, and innovation (RDI) projects, we turn complex urban challenges into scalable, practical solutions.

Our work focuses on accelerating the green transition, smart mobility, data-driven urban development, and digital transformation. We actively engage in international networks, bring together cross-sector consortiums, and test emerging technologies in authentic city environments. Through agile co-creation and user-driven testing, Forum Virium Helsinki helps build smarter, more resilient, and more livable cities.

Our key achievements

  • Helsinki is one of the best t smart cities in the rankings every year.
  • We made the City of Helsinki data open among the first cities in the world.
  • New companies and jobs are created in our innovation projects.
  • Our innovative solutions are covered in the international media by The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, Helsingin Sanomat ja Yleisradio.
  • Agile piloting as a city development model was started by us in Helsinki.