Co-creating future smart mobility solutions in Helsinki

Key Facts

Locations:

Helsinki (Finland)

Opening and closing date:

Permanent

Challenge area:

Future Mobility

Sustainable City Logistics

Creating Public Realm

Offered by:

Forum Virium Helsinki

Background

Forum Virium Helsinki - the innovation company empowered by the city of Helsinki - supports companies, research, public sector and Helsinki residents to co-create the future of urban mobility.


Helsinki's vision is to become the most functional city for its citizens. Hence, the city is committed to test and implement new solutions on a regular basis to overcome its challenges. For small companies and start-ups in particular, Helsinki's agile piloting model offers a low-threshold opportunity to participate in the development of smart solutions with and for the city. As part of the offering to innovative companies, the whole city has been made available as a testbed.  Moreover, the city's open data strategy aims to make better use of public data in the entire region. Helsinki's open data platform offers more than 500 datasets and 100 APIs for development of connected services that bring benefits to city and its citizens.


Helsinki is world-known for its tremendous innovation capacities - the MaaS concept was born in the city! Your innovation could be the next!