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The Helsinki Smart Region showcases the smart expertise in Helsinki-Uusimaa. Our smart innovation strategy for the region brings together stakeholders from both urban and rural areas for impactful research and innovation activities, all under the overarching theme of Resource Wisdom.

 

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News

Happy Plant Protein enables locally produced healthy and affordable plant-based food with new patented technology and raises EUR 1.8 million to go global

15.11.2024

Finnish food technology startup Happy Plant Protein, a spinout from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, has raised …
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Helsinki-Uusimaa calls for a place-based approach in the EU’s next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation

29.10.2024

Helsinki-Uusimaa emphasises that the future framework programme must promote place-based regional innovation ecosystems and strengthen cooperation along the …
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Regional Developer Eero Venäläinen guiding Helsinki-Uusimaa forward

14.10.2024

– I am quite experienced in regional development, and I am familiar with the operational environment. I am …
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Themes

Citizens’ city

The citizens in Helsinki-Uusimaa are active, creating together with companies and cities agile, user-focused services and solutions. The region is a world leader in making data public and using it to create new businesses. Helsinki-Uusimaa is big enough for systematic development of significant technologies and social innovations, and small enough to make it feasible in practice, too. This theme covers areas such as transportation, housing, urban planning, and healthcare.

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Citizens’ city

Climate neutrality

The Helsinki-Uusimaa Region has set a goal to be carbon neutral by 2035. A transition to a low carbon society requires significant changes to our infrastructure, mobility, and built environment. The Helsinki Smart region is a major operator in developing the most ambitious clean technology in the world, and we have the proven capacity to develop new service models. Climate neutrality theme covers areas such as circular economy solutions, new forms of energy, bioeconomy innovations and new materials.

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Climate neutrality

Industrial modernisation

The Helsinki-Uusimaa Region produces various configurable products using for example industrial IoT and mobile technologies. We develop leading edge technologies for future industry and processes. In Helsinki-Uusimaa there is a broad innovation activity in different fields of strategic value chains such as self-driving vehicles, smart health, hydrogen technology, and cyber security. Areas covered by the theme include, for example, new industrial processes, health technologies, robotics, and travel.

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Industrial modernisation

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