EUI in Tampere: What does leveraging Innovation Ecosystems actually mean?
05.06.2024 •
Ecosystem work
Internationality
The EUI Capacity Building training event offered new information and networks in Tampere 29-30th May, 2024. 26 cities from 11 countries participated.
But what does Leveraging Innovation Ecosystems for Sustainables Cities actually mean? EUI summed up the days:
Here are the main learnings:
- The fundamentals of Innovation Districts and Testbeds.
- To engage and embark stakeholders from the start to create an effective value chain to achieve the city vision.
- To combine long-term city vision on inclusion, climate neutrality and economic development and opportunities for funding.
- To foster citizen-centric innovations.
Looking for more? Here a few tips coming straight from our case studies:
- Don’t be afraid to set high ambitions and dream big.
- Think and take baby steps.
- Be a human engineer: don’t forget to include a sociological approach to your innovations.
- Try and test pilots to later scale up.
- Find inspiration and do a City-to-City Exchange with your European peers.
Coming up
- EUI City-to-City Exchanges
- Impact Innovation Summit, 17-18th September in Helsingborg
Check the presentations here: Leveraging Innovation Ecosystems for Sustainable Cities: an EUI Capacity Building Event | EUI (urban-initiative.eu)
On the event page you’ll find more information about:
EUI INNOVATIVE ACTIONS
Open call till 10/2024
FINEST SMART CITY CHALLENGE
Pilot programme for cities.
HORIZON EUROPE
DECARBONIZED CITIES, Business Finland
CITIES MISSION, NetZeroCities, TWIN CITIES
URBACT
Next call in 2025.
