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Smart City Lab

Smart City Lab

SCL is a triple helix collaboration initiative which is aiming at development, delivery and export of smart ICT and mobile based services and products in the following priority areas – Transport, Energy and Environment, Tourism, Healthcare and Wellbeing, Governance and public services. SCL is actively promoting international cooperation of Estonian companies, universities and clusters with relevant international counterparts.

 

SCL is the first and only acting living lab in Estonia that is focusing on collecting end-user feedback. At the moment we have a database of more than 300 test users who have signed up for testing on our web page and are committed to be the testers for different service and product prototypes and other relevant solutions that are tested in our living lab. The test users are continuously signing up with every new testing that we arrange.

 

Although SCL has only been in existence for a couple of years, there are ca 20 new product ideas developed, tested or in the pipeline. In addition to Estonian companies, Latvian and Swedish businesses have tested their products and services in the living lab. It is the vision of SCL to become one of Europe’s leading developers and exporters of urban e- and m-solutions. The respective focus areas include intelligent (public) transport, contemporary technical networks and infrastructure, tourism and recreational services as well as inclusive and effective governance services. SCL is convinced that collaboration between different regions creates additional value that benefits all parties involved. In terms of supporting internationalisation, the cooperation involves multiple levels. On the living lab level, the facilitation process starts with a prototype for a scalable new service. The prototype is first validated and tested in the local context and then moved to the cross-living lab level. This means that members from other countries help with testing the solution in living lab/ testbed settings as well as support them in getting the “foot in the door” with important stakeholders (city authorities, potential partners among other companies, etc). The next step, if the solution has proved to have wider potential, is aiming for global outreach – through an extended network of partners worldwide.

 

 

We have mainly been active in the following areas:

  • Smart Cities, Future Internet, Internet of Things. In Estonia different smart city related energy 
solutions are well-established fields with high growth potential. Several initiatives have been set up related to intelligent buildings, smart meters and smart street lightning. Tartu is very well known for its extensive implementation of Smart technologies in the Urban environment. Tartu implemented public Wi-Fi areas throughout the city and was the first city in the world to enable a mobile payment system for street parking in 2000.
  • e-Government, e-Participation. In Tartu City Government, paperless government was implemented in 2003. Two years later, in 2005, Estonia became the first country in the world to offer the possibility to vote via Internet in local elections. E-elections were implemented also for the European Parliament in 2009. Tartu is also the first city in Estonia that opened up its budget designing process for citizens and experiments with Participatory Budgeting from 2013.
  • Thematic Tourism, Culture Services and Sustainable Mobility. Mobility and intelligent transport systems are also an important topic in Tartu. There are many intelligent public transportation and green transportation initiatives. A fully electric taxi service and charging grid was implemented in 2012, now there are 70 registered electric cars in Tartu (45 owned by public institutions and 25 in private use). There are also 22 electric vehicles which already offer taxi service in Tartu.

 

SCL is also responsible for several international cooperation projects of Tartu (Horizon 2020, EU Baltic Sea Region etc.) and coordinating the development of Baltic Sea Region Urban Forum for Smart Cities (BUF). This initiative aims to set up a competence platform for the purpose of identifying, adapting and multiplying good practices to build capacity and exchange knowledge, thus enabling the cities to become truly smart. Involving several substantial partners (i.e. the Union of the Baltic Cities and Baltic Development Forum, Council of the Baltic Sea States, 14 cities around the Baltic Sea etc.), BUF serves the interests and needs of the Baltic Sea Region and European cities and provides a systematized and organized forum for discussing modern challenges with regional urban actors that share similar issues as well as with those who offer innovative solutions and practitioners who have practical experience in dealing with specific challenges. By acknowledging that each and every country and city holds a high degree of local competences and creative potential, a wide avenue of smart specialisation opportunities can be harnessed so to encourage learning through this initiative. Thus, the cities that are already innovation producers can benefit from collective actions and economies of scale while the innovation followers will be able to kick- start the adoption and implementation of sustainable innovations and technologies. Thereby, BUF aims to bring together actors from more than 100 cities and towns, fostering a wide partnership that will play a great role as a vehicle for supporting urban areas so they could benefit from smart green solutions with speed and scale.

 

Media

We have released three videos that are describing our main activities and give an overview about smart city activities and solutions in Tartu.

Contact:
Gerttu Simm [javascript protected email address]
Country:
Estonia
Smart City Lab

Methologies

We have opened a Smart City Demo Centre in Tartu. The purpose of the Demo Centre is to demonstrate solutions grown out of the cluster and living lab to citizens, tourists, formal international delegations etc. Opening the Demo Centre will also give us a physical test site that could be used for end user tests.

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Imagining the Green Cities of the Future: Global Cases – Workshop

Thursday, 14 Mar 2024
Online
This is a role-play where each participant will embody a key figure in society. Together, we will collaboratively craft strategies aimed at fostering a sustainable future by envisioning the world in 2050. The focus lies on various cities worldwide, each poised for a green transition. Through dialogue and negotiation, the aim is to forge agreements that pave the way for necessary actions and initiatives.
      

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