Smart City Programs
Our 3-year Smart City program brings your local community together to innovate the future!
Our 3-year Smart City program brings your local community together to innovate the future!
Our program for smart and sustainable communities will help you create better services for citizens, reach the Global Goals, cut costs and create new green jobs.
We establish the programs together with municipalities, publicly owned ports and energy companies in the Nordics, and create local value in close collaboration with academia, local businesses and inhabitants.
Our systematic innovation model has been developed together with over 15 Nordic municipalities, ports and energy companies. We have 14 years experience from the smart & sustainable community domains, developed within the European Interoperability Framework for Smart Cities and Communities:
our Smart City program allows for innovation across these sectors, developing novel products and services.
Our approach to innovation and collaboration is completely aligned with the EU Mission for Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities.
The program includes our proven and systematic methodology to bring concrete solutions to local challenges.
The EU Missions focus on impact by putting research and innovation into a new role, combined with new forms of governance and collaboration, as well as by engaging citizens.
Our systematic innovation model consists of the following tools and enablers:
Our role in the program is to be the neutral program manager who orchestrates the community stakeholders and drives the innovation process towards concrete results. This is always carried out in close collaboration with municipality leaders.
Innovation management involves the process of managing an organization’s innovation procedure, from idea to reality, from projects to long term implementations and from pilots to full scale products and services.
Collaboration across sectors is key and we know that every community has its own ways, cultures and methods to collaborate between stakeholders.
Our role here is to help increase cross-sector collaboration, both between internal departments and with external organisations.
The goal is to establish arenas, digital and physical, where we allow co-creation and innovation to grow.
We have long experience from both Norwegian and Swedish funding mechanisms as well as Nordic and EU funding programs.
In earlier positions, we have participated in and initiated more than 150 innovation and research projects in quadruple helix collaboration together with municipalities, ports and energy companies.
The local project portfolio is developed through a co-creation process including all the program stakeholders.
The projects are prioritized by how well they fulfil the program objectives: create better services for inhabitants, create new local jobs, cut costs for the municipality.
The projects are managed by partners in the program, or external project managers, and shall deliver operative, hands-on results like products and services for the inhabitants.
The projects may be part of larger municipal plans and strategies, or activities initiated by the local businesses, as long as they provide value for the community.
We can help you establish national and international research & innovation projects.
We can help you set up a digital twin for your city, a tool for data based analysis, decision making and predictions.
Study visits for municipality leaders to exciting smart city destinations in the Nordics.
The future of public digital services! Join us in creating a democratic marketplace for the digital services that our citizens deserve.
Get in touch with us to discuss the needs, challenges and opportunities in your local community.