3 ways to participate in Forum Virium Helsinki
Join us in making Helsinki the most functional Smart City in the world! There are three ways to participate. Get familiar with our living labs, join our open calls or propose a new project. We offer you piloting, experiments and sometimes funding too!
1. Company, participate in open calls and pilot in Helsinki
As one method to co-create the future Helsinki, we use challenge-based open calls for proposals. In these competitive open calls we ask startups, SMEs, large companies and research entities propose innovative solutions that tackle the challenges we have defined. Anyone with a proper business ID can make a proposition.
Experimentations are smaller and are executed in 1 to 3 months. With experimentations we expect to learn about future opportunities together. Pilots are larger demonstrations and proof-of-concepts of new innovations with serious hypotheses of real life applicability. You will find ongoing open calls in the list below.

Open Call for Innovative Mobility Solutions to West Harbour area in Helsinki
Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab and Forum Virium Helsinki are seeking innovative mobility solutions through a third call open for agile pilots. The call is open until 3 Feb 2021. >>> Read more
Join our mailing list
Subscribe to our newsletter and you will know exactly when the next open calls are available!
2. Citizen, join our innovators clubs and living labs
- Smart City: Kalasatama Innovators Club and Urban Lab
- IoT: Helsinki Open IoT Vekotinverstas and HEL <3 Developers
- Smart Mobility: Jätkäsaari Smart Mobility
- Newsletter: Subscribe to our newsletter
3. University, create new collaborative projects with us
We create a large bulk of our activities with the very competed R&I funding targeted for collaborative projects. If you are working on new project development, we would be happy to discuss with you on future collaboration on common project or programme proposals. For this, please contact:
Past open calls
45000€
What: Smart mobility solutions and services for tourists in Jätkäsaari pilot area
Project: Perille asti 2018
Selected companies: Drive Now, Easy Park, Vapaus Bikes, Route Pepper, Norölines, Bout
40000€
What: Solutions for digital health and wellbeing to be piloted in Smart Kalasatama
Project: Co-designing wellbeing project 2018
Selected companies: Miils, Meallogger, Auntie, Moodmetric, MelloVR
492000€
What: Sustainable intelligent transport solutions to solve cross-border mobility dilemmas
Project: FinEst Smart Mobility 2017–2018
Selected companies: Kyyti, GoSwift, Coreorient, Fleetrange, Infotripla, Tilgi Suomi
100000€
What: EV charging pilot to support the development of innovative IoT solutions
Project: bIoTope 2017
Selected companies: Parkkisähkö
14000€
What: Wellbeing services for new Health and Wellbeing center in Kalasatama
Project: Fiksu Kalasatama 2017
Selected companies: Movendos, Kuntoutussäätiö, Auntie
3200000€
What: Internet of Everything platform for Smart Cities
Project: Select4Cities project 2017
Selected companies: FIWOO, Etv-CORE, Harmony, IoE Platform, City Enabler, Newton, City of Data, Snap4City, City Platform, Wings Smart City Platform
38000€
What: Climate-positive solutions’ experimentation
Project: Fiksu Kalasatama 2017
Selected companies: Witrafi, Parkkisähkö, Elwedo, InnoGreen ja Natural Interest
69000€
What: New technologies and business models to ease road congestion at Jätkäsaari
Project: FinEst Smart Mobility 2016
Selected companies: FLOU, GoSwift, Townhall24, Jiffi, Positium
Header photo: Jussi Hellsten / Helsinki Marketing