Testbed Helsinki

The City of Helsinki is a testbed for new innovations. Companies and RDI actors, do you want to develop and experiment your products or services in an authentic city environment? The key content areas of our testing platform activities are EdTech, Smart Mobility, Built Environment, Circular Economy and Health & Wellbeing.

Testbed Helsinki pyrkii ratkaisemaan globaaleja haasteita kannustamalla uusiin innovaatioihin.

Test and develop your solution in Helsinki!

Testbed Helsinki supports your development and growth. We offer companies and RDI actors a variety of opportunities to test and develop new products and services in a real urban environment. Read about our current experiments and companies’ experiences, explore our open calls or propose for your own solution for experimenting, and check out our calendar for upcoming interesting events.

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Innovation competition: Ethical AI in Learning

The City of Helsinki invites companies to develop ethical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to support personalised learning processes and individualised learning materials. Helsinki is in the global forefront of developing innovations for the education sector. In 2016, Helsinki was the first capital in the world to create a digitalisation strategy for learning, and the City is also a global pioneer in innovations and equality related to learning.

Pilot in Helsinki produced detailed traffic information, helps recognise risky situations

Nodeon Finland piloted new technology to analyse traffic and improve traffic safety. The technology is based on LIDAR and AI. During the pilot, a traffic census with an accuracy of over 95 per cent was achieved and developmental leaps were taken towards a C-ITS solution that improves traffic safety.

Greater Helsinki joins world’s top clean technology startup ecosystems

Greater Helsinki has been ranked among the world’s top 25 clean technology, or cleantech, startup ecosystems in the recently released Global Startup Ecosystem Report: Cleantech Edition. The report was compiled by the esteemed startup research and policy advisory organisation Startup Genome.

Innovation challenge for increasing the physical activity of young people – submit your proposal now!

The City of Helsinki has launched an innovation challenge aimed at companies to promote the physical activity of young people. Through the challenge, the City is looking for innovative ways to increase the physical activity of upper secondary students and comprehensively promote well-being.

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 experiments.

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.

A city as a test platform?

Companies and RDI actors can recommend their own solution to the City of Helsinki for testing. We review proposals on a regular basis and aim to respond to them as soon as possible. The proposals are treated with confidentiality.

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Check out the most common questions and answers related to our testing activities at Testbed Helsinki!

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