HELSINKI

ESPOO

VANTAA

TAMPERE

TURKU

OULU

Happy Citizens and Thriving Business

THE SIX CITY STRATEGY

Minna Torppa, Programme Manager The Six City Strategy Office8.10.2019

Working together towards open and smart services

Based on joint ambitions and challenges of the six biggest cities in Finland.

Smart City development projects & knowledge and employment projects

Carried out as part of Finland’s structural fund programme for sustainable growth and jobs 2014-2020

Co-creation for smarter cities

Cities bring together companies, research & development organisations and citizens.

ACTIVE CUSTOMER-CENTERED CO-CREATION

–TESTING ON OPEN

INNOVATION PLATFORMS–

OPENING AND UTILISING DATA AND INTERFACES

Spearhead projects built the basis for innovation activities and created the framework for the cooperation in the city community

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OPEN DATA AND INTERFACES

Utilising data as raw material for new services and solutions

Renewing processes in the cities

Creating new business

7/14 - 12/176,7M €10 PARTNERS

OPEN INNOVATION PLATFORMS

Facilitating the development of Smart City solutions with companies,

Offering a nationally significant reference platform consisting of the six participating cities.

2/15 - 7/1811,5M €12 PARTNERS

OPEN PARTICIPATION AND CUSTOMERSHIP

Creating new way of planning, implementing and developing customer service and city services.

Enabling production of new user-oriented services together with companies and R&D&I organisations

4/15 - 4/187,6M €7 PARTNERS

Spearhead projects

Companies as a target group

Companies are both target groups

and partners in 6Aika projects.

Companies use urban

environments as platforms for

testing and developing new

products and services.

Cities enable knowledge building in

businesses (e.g. trainings in smart

city development).

Over 4200 companies have

participated in 6Aika projects

513 Developed and piloted new

or improved products or services

85 new innovation platforms

have been created

46 pilot projects in various themesHealth and wellbeingSmart mobility and logisticsLearningGamingCircular economy and cleantechMediaCity as a testbed Urban dataService designCo-creationCareer paths for the youthEmployment

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Examples of 6Aika Smart City Development Projects

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Circular economy and cleantech

The Energy Wise Cities

The project aims to boost the role of the cities towards international example areas of energy-efficient housing, zeroenergy construction, diversified energy systems, energy efficiency monitoring and end user guidance.

The Energy Wise Cities project will improve the energy efficiency and use of renewable energy in existing areas and buildings.

Energy efficiency

Photo: City of Tampere

Health and Wellbeing

Experimenting AI in identifying individuals in need of support

• Tieto and the city of Espoo jointly handled a mass of data consisting of client relationship data (social and health care and early childhood education data) of the entire population of Espoo for the years 2002–2016 and covered approx. more than 37 million customer contacts.

• The aim was to discover service paths to determine factors that should be focused on to prevent the social exclusion of residents.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Screenshot from Tieto Corp. video Unique AI

Experiment improves healthcare and social services

Learning

Boosting the business of Edtech Companies

• Schools and companies co-develop and test new learning services and products

• The schools publish challenges and companies offer their ideas

- Agile piloting is been used for testing new solutions in real life conditions

• The entire city can been seen as a learning environment

- smart & sustainable physical learning environments

- digital tools & new technologies- virtual & augmented reality - learning analytics

LEARNING

Photo: Anna Karppinen

Main results & findings

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Most important results

• Deeper and more systemic collaboration between the cities and companies

• A stronger developer network within and between the city organization

• Strengthening the culture of innovation and collaborationbetween public and the private sector

• Cities operating as platforms for collaboration with companies• New tested operating models, platforms, and praxis for innovation

policies• Agile experimentation models scaled to different use cases

Thank you!

CONTACT US:

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