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Cases
Industrial modernisation
News
Helsinki-Uusimaa Region emphasises the importance of reforming cohesion policy as a central pillar of the EU in the upcoming programming period
31.1.2025
Beyond Helsinki-Uusimaa: Building Momentum for 2025
30.1.2025
Helsinki-Uusimaa joined declaration on EU cohesion policy
29.11.2024
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